Day 1 8:00-9:00 Registration 9:00-9:55 Opening addresses Plenary talk: Tibeto-Burman languages of North East India 9:55-10:40 Mark Post and Robbins Burling 10:40-10:45 Vote of thanks 10:45-11:00 Tea Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax Boro grammar Session 1 (3 x 30 mins) and discourse Chair: Chair: Bodo grammar presented from Verbal agreement marking in the the English and Indo-Aryan Tangsa / Tangshang languages 11-11:30 perspective: An overview Stephen Morey Bihung Brahma Nominalization in Bodo Go and come verbs in Tenyidie 11:30-12:00 Prafulla Basumatary Kikrokhol Kraho Comments on participant references in Amri Karbi 12:00-12:30 narrative discourse Nailya Philippova 12:30-1:30 Lunch Larger Perspectives Assamese grammar Session 2 (3 x 30 mins) Chair: Chair: Language contact in the Indefinite and definite evolution of North East Indian quantifiers in Assamese: Some 1:30-2:00 languages, with a special focus observations on central Arunachal Pradesh Gautam Borah Mark Post Assamese vector verbs: Grammatical categories for divergence and convergence of 2:00-2:30 Tibeto-Burman languages functions Scott DeLancey Jyotiprakash Tamuli “Responsible Methodology”: a A sociolinguistic study of paradigm for language lexical variation in Assamese 2:30-3:00 documentation in South Asia Dimple Choudhury, Leena Shobhana Chelliah Dihingia & Priyankoo Sarmah 3:00-3:40 Tea Tense and Aspect Indo-Aryan perspectives Session 3 (4 x 20 mins) Chair: Chair: Aspectual Functions of The nature of agreement and the Reduplication in Tangkhul related question of ergativity in 3:40 – 4:00 Abhishek Kujur and Jupitara Assamese Boro Diganta Kumar Nath Present Perfect and Simple Past Adjectives in Kamrupi 4:00-4:20 in Assamese Assamese Kailash Sarma Kishor Dutta Tai linguistics (contd.) Chair: Grammaticalization of content On the anatomy of an entry in words in Tai-Khamti an Assamese-Assamese-English 4:20-4:40 Bishakha Das Dictionary Mouchumi Handique Grammaticalization of the word A grammatical sketch of ‘hav’ meaning to give in the Tai Haflong Hindi 4:40-5:00 Ahom manuscripts with Anujeema Saikia & Saad Ahmad reference to Standard Thai Poppy Gogoi Day 2 Languages of the Manipur- Verb agreement Session 4 (3 x 30 mins) Nagaland border area Chair: Chair: Case marking in Liangmai Verb agreement in Nocte 9-9:30 Wichamdinbo Mataina Iftiqar Rahman Verb Agreement in Thadou, a Reduplication in Rongmei 9:30-10:00 Kuki-Chin Language Debojit Deb D. Marykim Haokip The Kinship Systems Amongst Description of verb-pronominal 10:00-10:30 the Khurkhuls agreement in Mara Louriyam Bebica Devi Jyoti Sharma 10:30-11:00 Tea Field reports and grammatical Tone, intonation, vowel, etc. Session 5 (3 x 30 mins) overviews Chair: Chair: Looking for the ‘real’ tone in Introduction to Sherdukpen 11-11.30 Tibeto-Burman languages language Amos Teo François Jacquesson High vowel devoicing in Hrusso A preliminary outline of Anal, a 11:30-12:00 Aka language of Manipur Vijay A. D’Souza Pavel Ozerov Intonational and prosodic Typological Characteristics of structure of two varieties of Mnar 12:00-12:30 Assamese Ruth Rymbai Asim I. Twaha & Shakuntala Mahanta Lunch 12:30-1:30 Topics in Austroasiatic Manipuri grammar Session 6 (3 x 20 mins) linguistics Chair: Chair: Adjectives in Meiteilon Verbal Agreement in Pnar 1:30 – 1:50 Maibam Somobala Devi Gamidalah War Roles of reciprocal suffix in Deictic Expression of Puriang: a 1:50-2:10 Manipuri variety of Khasi language Surmangol Sharma Christina Kharlukhi Demonstrative Reference in Ethno-linguistic vitality of Pnar Manipuri and Biate languages of Huiningshumbam Surchandra Meghalaya: A comparative 2:10-2:30 Singh study Christina Kharlukhi and Gordon Dean Dkhar 2:30-3:00 Tea TB morphosyntax and Kuki-Chin languages Session 7 (3 x 20 mins) pragmatics Chair: Chair: Reflexives and Reciprocals in Phonology of Kheyang : An 3:00 – 3:20 Dimasa Acoustic Analysis Monali Longmailai Mohammad Mamun Or Rashid Complementation in Kokborok The structure of causatives in 3:20-3:40 Samir Debbarma and L. Hmar Pratima Devi Marina Laltlinzo Infimate The Study of Topic and Focus Particles in Karbi (Plains): Some 3:40-4:00 Observations Raujline Akhtar 4:00-5:00 Business meeting Day 3 Languages of Western TB verb morphology Session 8 (3 x 30 mins) Arunachal Pradesh Chair: Chair: Verbal Morphology of Kulung The markers ye, ro, chõ and bo 9:00-9:30 Reena Rai in Bugun Madhumita Barbora Verbal Morphology of Thulung Motion verbs in Bulu Puroik - A Suman Rai language without COME and 9:30-10:00 GO? Ismael Lieberherr Verb stem alternations in A predictive model for stress in Monsang (Northwest Kuki- single-headed compounds of 10:00-10:30 Chin) Sajolang (Miji) Linda Konnerth Christopher Weedall 10:30-11:00 Tea Pragmatics Comparative Tangsa Session 9 (3 x 30 mins) Chair: Chair: The Place of Emphasis Markers Tense-aspect markers in Phong 11:00-11:30 in Manipuri Niharika Dutta P Madhubala The relationship between Hierarchical person-number nominalization and focus indexing in Muklom Tangsa 11:30-12:00 particles in Milang Mijke Mulder Yankee Modi Scalar Additive in Boro: A Cross-Varietal Description of Presupposition, scale and Modifiers of Basic Colour 12:00-12:30 entailment Terms in Tangsa-Nocte Krishna Boro Kellen Parker van Dam 12:30-1:30 Lunch Tibeto-Burman word classes TB morphosyntax Session 10 (3 x 30 mins) and morphology I Chair: Chair: Copula constructions in Mising Classifiers in Dhiyan 1:30-2:00 Sarat Kumar Doley S. Sulochana Singha Aspects in Kulung Reduplication in Dimasa 2:00-2:30 Chahak Mani Rai (Khambu) Kh. Dhiren Singha Modifying construction in Inpui 2:30-3:00 W. Pinky Devi & L. Bijenkumar Singh 3:00-3:40 Tea TB word classes and Sociolinguistics Session 11 (4 x 20 mins) morphology II Chair: Chair: Language attitude among Pronouns in Poula Noctes of Changlang district of Sahiinii Veikho Lemaina 3:40-4:00 Arunachal Pradesh Trisha Wangno A perception test on Northern A Linguistic Analysis of Kabui and Southern Angami dialects and Meiteilon Kinship Terms 4:00-4:20 Kelhouvinuo Suokhrie & Rajkumari Rajbala Viyazonuo Terhiija Changing patterns in Assamese Numerals in Anal 4:20-4:40 among Assamese youths Th. Thajamanbi Devi P R Bhattacharyya Influence of Assamese on the Numeral Classifier Construction 4:40-5:00 Boro culture in Liangmai Riniva Thakuria Widinibou Charengna .