39th Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of November 26-27, 2018 CEDA Hall, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur Program Monday, November 26 08:00 – 08:30 Registration 08:30 – 9:45 Inauguration 9:45-10:15 Hi-Tea 10:15-11:00 Keynote Speech

Professor Dr. John The prehistorical spread of Austro-Asiatic in South Peterson Asia with special reference to eastern central South Asia – a preliminary look 11:05 -12:35 First Session A: Language and education, and language and tourism 1. Yogendra P. Envisaging a language typology of schools in Yadava Nepalese education 2. L. Iboyaima Singh Teaching professional communication in Nepal: issues and challenges 3. Ganesh Kumar English teacher's pedagogical capital: A Bastola narrative inquiry 4. Harsha Prabhakar Language and tourism B: Sociolinguistics 5. Brianne Smith A sociolinguistic study of Gamal: A variety of Newar spoken in Pyangaun, Nepal 6. Sarah R. A sociolinguistic study of Kurux (Uranw) in Shackelford Nepal and its relationship to Kurux in India 7. Ambika Regmi Assessing orality in Magar Kaike: Sustainable use model perspective 8. Surya Prasad Social variations in Maithili Yadav C: Cognitive linguistics, and writing 9. Poshak Pathak and Bilingual stroop effect on high and low Lekhnath Sharma proficient Nepali-English bilinguals Pathak 10. Vashundhara How thinking differently matters:

i Shrivastava and Evidence from Rajbanshi Bidisha Som 11. Vijayalaxmi F. Patil A Cognitive-linguistic approach to the analysis of verbal nouns and gerunds in Kannada 12. Nagendra M. Deciphering the inscriptions A linguistic study 12:35-13:20 Second Session

A: Thematic discussion on criteria for official language(s) in Nepal (A session conducted by Language Commission) 13. Bal Chandra Language, culture and the making of place: A Luitel non/essentialist view of language planning B: Sociolinguistics 14. Reyma Abraham Colour terms in Malayalam: A sociolinguistic study 15. Som Bahadur A gallop in mother tongue Dhimal safeguarding (a case study of Gorkhapatra daily publication) C: Phonetics and Phonology 16. Mangvung Phonology of Biate Hemminlal Haokip 17. Cathryn Donohue Tone in Nubri and Mark Donohue 13:20 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 14:20 Third Session (Poster) 18. Anju Saxena; Anna The sound system of Kanashi Sjöberg and Padam Sagar 19. Bhim Narayan Multimodal dictionary: A tool for Regmi and Sagun preserving language and culture Dhakhwa 14:20 - 15:30 Fourth Session A: Language situation 20. Govinda Chandra Endangerment of tribal language: A Penthoi sociolinguistic study of Kuvi language in Odisha

ii 21. Rishiram Adhikari Situation of Chepang language in province no 3 22. Ahanthem Romita The status of Baram language in Mailung Devi village of Nepal B: Language commission's activities, sociolinguistics and lexicography (Nepali session) 23. गणेश साद भराई भाषा आयोगका गतवध 24. वणुलाल भुजेल भुजेल शदकोश नमाणको अययन 25. राजनलाल जोशी उपयकाका जलय नाम C: Morphology 26. Netra Mani Compound verbs in Dumi Dumi Rai 27. Sourabh Chetry Compound verbs in Nepali spoken in Assam and Madhumita Barbora 28. Arambam Numerals in Sukte Sadananda Singh

15:35 - 17:30 Fifth Session A: Language technology, lexicography and Natural Language Processing 29. Akash Adhikari Trigger word detection for Nepali speech recognition using deep learning 30. Bal Krishna Bal, Popularity tracking and trend analysis of Santosh Regmi and public figures based on news media texts Kamal Kafle 31. Mohammad Mamun Language documentation through corpus Or Rashid development for low-resource language 32. Krishna Maya Building a lexicon of verb frames for Nepali Magar 33. Balaram Prasain, Bhashakosh: A multilingual dictionary Santa Bahadur Basnet and Birodh Rijal B: Grammar and Discourse 34. Dan Raj Regmi Coding grammatical signals in Western

iii Tamang: A typological perspective 35. Parijat Narzary Number and numeral system in Bodo 36. Priyeshi Kumari Emphatic Markers in Maithili and their and Somdev Kar distribution 37. Subhanan Mandal Investigating the thou-thee-thy-thine-ye-you occurrences in Shakespearean Tragedy- A systematic functional linguistics (SFL) approach 38. Ajay Kumar Jargons as a global change in Russian newspapers (Special focus on headlines of Russian newspapers) C: Language contact 39. Anju Saxena; Indo-Aryan loanwords in Kanashi: What do Armin they say about its past? Chiocchetti and Padam Sagar 40. Bhim Lal Language shift in Maithili: Causes and impacts Gautam 41. Sreelakshmi K Language contact and maintenance: A case M study of Kani tribes 42. Jonali Saikia Sociolinguistic profile of a creolized language Chakma 43. Nazrin B. Laskar Convergence and areal diffusion: The case of Abu Saleh Md. Sylheti Manjur Ahmed

Tuesday, November 27 8:30 -10:50 Sixth Session A: Historical linguistics and Pragmatics 44. Sohan Kumar Origin of Bhojpuri dialect from Magadhi prakrit: A phonological aspect 45. Samar Sinha How “K-class” became “Kh-class” in Darjeelinge Nepali 46. Tanmoy Bhattacharya Spatial deixis and double-definiteness in Meiteilon 47. Zain Ullah Khattak Metaphorical analysis of China Pakistan cconomic corridor (CPEC) 48. Monali Longmailai A case study of Deori and Dimasa with

iv and Jonali Saikia reference to language use and context 49. Gregory D. S. Information structure and Sora word order Anderson, Opino Gomango and Miss Sudhanshubala Pradhan

B: Phonology 50. Ajith Francis and Syllabification of English loan words in Hemanga Dutta Malayalam: an OT account 51. Joey Foster Ellis and Sanskrit syllables emphatic effect on South Subodh Shukla Asian culture 52. Mike Morgan Sound of one hand clapping: Should we really be talking about sign language phonology? And if we do, what should we be saying? 53. Boyd Michailovsky Kiranti vowel quantity and Hayu “shortening” 54. Rajkumari Vowel and consonants of Assamese and Monimala Sinha Bishnupuriya 55. Danielle Ronkos Word-final lenition in Sikles Gurung

C: Phonetics, phonology, and Sociolinguistics 56. Martine A perception study of the cues to tone MAZAUDON and differentiation in Risiangku Tamang Jiayin GAO 57. Bhabindra Rai Nasalization and vowel length in Chamling 58. Sinjini Chakraborty Identification of the geographical background of Indians based on their spoken English: A forensic phonetic approach 59. Nazish Malik Phonological variation In language as spoken in Rampur 60. Abhilasha Tamuli Sociolinguistic variation and gender of the Oraon (Kurukh) tribe 61. Yumanm Premila Andro Dialect: A sociolinguistics outlook Chanu 10:55 -13:10 Seventh Session A: Phonology, stylistics and lexical study (Nepali session) 62. शारदा ेी ‘अभीटको खोज’ मा आचलक भाषाको योग

v 63. आदश सुदास नेपाल र सादर भाषाका सवनामको तलनामकु अययन 64. युरका थापा मगर ढुटमा शदवगको वलेषण 65. भागरथा यौपाने सँगनी गीत: शैलवैानक वलेषण 66. मुितनाथ घमरे दराु भाषामा अय भाषाको भाव 67. उमेश चामलङ नेपाल वाणक या अन वण यतरेक B: Phonology, Morphosyntax, and Writing 68. Bhojraj Gautam Segments and prosodic contrasts in Kuke 69. Madhav Prasad Syllable based phenomena in Nepalese Pokharel languages 70. Mahesh Singh Saud A Preliminary study of aspects in Darchuleli 71. Subash Chandra Rai Membership criteria of noun in Bantawa 72. Kwang-Ju Cho A history of Bantawa verbal agreement system 73. G. B. Shrestha An analytical perspective on the Sanskrit writing system C: Phonology and sociolinguistics 74. Pronomita Semsa and Walgong dialects of Dimasa: a Rajioung and D. comparative phonological study Mary Kim Haokip 75. Raj kishor Singh Phonaestheticism 76. ABM Razaul Globalization as an underpinning ideology of Karim Faquire foreign language education policy in Bangladesh 77. Deepmoni Kakoty Sociolinguistic aspects of Tai Aiton 78. Pranjit Dewri Sociolinguistic aspects of the Tiwa 79. Gopal Thakur Simraungadh, Bhojpuri and Vidyapati: An Interwoven Entity

13:10 – 13:45 Lunch 13:45 -15:15 Eighth Session A: Language and culture 80. Madhushree K S Language and culture of Irula tribe 81. Omkareshwor Totemic practice among the upper strata Shrestha Shresthas 82. Ramesh Kumar The Mundhumic language and Limbu

vi Limbu nationality 83. Pratima Brahma Slang vocabulary and its uses in Bodo society B: Language variation 84. Ria Evangilin Dialectal variations in standard Malayalam and Kannur dialect 85. Princy Pappanchan Importance of dialectal variation for language existence and use 86. Varuni Phonological and lexical difference between Krishnamurty Mysore Kannada and Dharwad Kannada Naragund 87. Kinley Dorjee Phonological variation of the word-initial complex segments in Dzongkha: A sociolinguistic study C: Sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics 88. Uma Shrestha A comparative study of the use of English in two linguistic landscapes: Bhaktapur Durbar square and Pulchowk 89. Vivek Kumar From monolingualism to multilingualism: A Case study of the internally displaced populations of the Narmada valley 90. Language Acquisition: Aspects that affect Faizan Ahmed learning 91. English as a medium of instruction: K P Ghimire Challenges for teachers and students 15:20 – 16:50 Ninth Session A: Lexical studies and Translation 92. Taramani Rai Lexical comparison in the Kirati languages 93. Khalid Mahmood Lexical features in mountaineering guides' Zaman English in Gligit/Baltistan: a case study 94. Anterleena Basu Translating the language of pain: An analytical study in translating partition narratives from Bengali to English 95. Samana Asaghar From carpet to cinema: The intersemiotic translation in Gabbeh B: Morphosyntax 96. Binod Kumar Predicatehood in Maithili nomial complex Yadav predicates

vii 97. Zahid Bashir Lone Split ergativity and ergative case in Kashmiri and Hilal Ahmad Dar 98. Dubi Nand Dhakal Verbal agreement in Tsum: A local and Mark Donohue innovation in a Tibetan language. 99. Daithun Baro Echo-formation in Bodo C: Morphosyntax (Nepali Medium Session) 100. Nirmal Niroula Cross-categorical agreement and feature doubling in Darjeelinge Nepali 101. Reena Rai Doubling in Kulung 102. शैलजा पोखरेल नेपाल भाषामा तरग सातको उपयोग

16:50-17:30 Closing

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