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NEILS 2012 Provisional Schedule NEILS 2012 Provisional Schedule Workshops Date Tuesday, January 31 Wednesday, February 1 Session WS1a WS3a Workshop on Language Documentation Workshop on Language Documentation 9:00-10:30 Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne 10:30-11:00 Tea Tea Session WS1b WS3b Workshop on Language Documentation Workshop on Language Documentation 11:00-12:30 Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne 12:30-1:30 Lunch Lunch Session WS2a WS4a Workshop on Language Documentation Workshop on Language Documentation 1:30-3:00 Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne 3:00-3:30 Tea Tea Session WS2b WS4b Workshop on Language Documentation Workshop on Language Documentation 3:30-5:00 Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne Stephen Morey and Lauren Gawne Conference Day 1 Date → Thursday, February 2 Time ↓ 8:30-9:30 Registration Opening Addresses, 9:30-10:30 Logistical Announcements, NEIL4 Book Launch 10:30-11:00 Tea Pragmatics, semantics and case Semantics and metaphor Session 1 Chair: Shobhana Chelliah Chair: Anita Tamuli An approach of Gricean particularized Sumi semantic and pragmatic markers: implicature: The Inao use of figure of 11:00-11:30 A case of ye and no speech Amos Teo Surjit Lourembam Clause dependency and the “assertive Conceptual metaphors for LOVE in 11:30-12:00 system” of War Assamese Anne Daladier Nivedita Saikia A comparative study of the Mongsen Manipuri psycho-collocations 12:00-12:30 and Meithei core case marking systems Surmangol Sharma Atu Longkumer 12:30-1:30 Lunch Mind over morphosyntax Eastern Indo-Aryan phonology Session 2 Chair: Gwendolyn Hyslop Chair: Ichchha Purna Rai The Conjunct/disjunct system in two Synchronic changes in Assamese: Tibeto-Burman languages: Lamjung Some preliminary observations 1:30-2:00 Yolmo and Sherpa Kailash Sarma Lauren Gawne and Barb Kelly Evidentiality and aspect in the copular Dorsal fricatives of Assamese 2:00-2:30 verbs of Khengkha Mukul Sarma Keren Baker Northeast Indian-Southeast Asian Spirantization in Tibeto-Burman- 2:30-3:00 connections: The case of ‘give’ Bengali bilinguals in south of Assam Mathias Jenny Kakoli Dey 3:00-3:30 Tea New descriptions Comparative phonology Session 3 Chair: Nathan Statezni Chair: Tom Owen-Smith A brief phonological description of Phonemes in Asamiya and Bangla: A Biate comparative study 3:30-4:00 Lalremzami Chinzah and Paramita Purkait Vanlalenglian Phonology of Khoibu Comparative segmental differences in 4:00-4:30 Laishram Bijenkumar Singh two dialects of Assamese and Bangla Atanu Saha and Bipasha Patgiri Phonology of Syriem: An Some notes on phonological properties undocumented Kuki-Chin language of of the languages 4:30-5:00 Barak valley of Northeast India Ashangbam Samani Devi and Tobias Weber Pauthang Haokip Conference Day 2 Date → Friday, February 3 Time ↓ Location Room A Room B Tibeto-Burman grammar 1 North East Indian phonologies Session 4 Chair: Ch. Yashawanta Singh Chair: Surmangol Sharma Predicting reference form: Manipuri phonotactics: A study of clusters 9:00-9:30 A Pear Story study of Meitei and syllables Shobhana Chelliah L. Sarbajit Singh Morphology of Liangmai Phonological system of Inpui 9:30-10:00 Guichamlung Daimai Waikhom Pinky Devi Agreement in Vaiphei Phonemes in Liangmai 10:00-10:30 George Bedell and Khawlsonkim Ragui Daimai Suantak 10:30-11:00 Tea Contact, convergence and change 1 Indo-Aryan grammar 1 Session 5 Chair: Mathias Jenny Chair: Razaul Faquire Phonological changes in the Hindi The teaching of initial literacy in Assamese loanwords of Contact Hindi in Anita Tamuli 11:00-11:30 Shillong Maansi Sharma Linguistic shrinkage in Lepcha: Syntax and semantics of sub-ordinate 11:30-12:00 Traces of language contact clauses in Assamese Satarupa Dattamajumdar Bipasha Patgiri Postcolonial indigenous languages Postpositions in Asamiya 12:00-12:30 and cultural change in Bangladesh Runima Chowdhary Sikder Monoare Murshed 12:30-1:30 Lunch Session 6 Business Meeting Location Room A Publication plans, announcements, etc. 1:30-2:00 Note: Attendance is obligatory if you hope to publish your paper with us!! 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