TENTATIVE PROGRAM 23RD HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM CENTRE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES, TEZPUR UNIVERSITY 5 – 7 JULY 2017 DAY I WEDNESDAY 5 JULY VENUE: COUNCIL HALL, TEZPUR UNIVERSITY 09.00 - 10.00 Registration 10.00 - 11.00 INAUGURAL SESSION 10.00-10.15 Welcome Address by the Coordinator, 23rd HLS Organizing Committee 10.15-10.30 Introducing the theme of the Symposium 10.30-10.45 Inaugural Address by the Honourable Vice Chancellor, Tezpur University 10.45-10.50 Address by Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tezpur University 10.50-11.05 Address by Prof. Van Driem 11.05-11.10 Vote of Thanks 11.10-11.30 Tea break 11.30-12.30 Keynote Address: Prof. George van Driem 12.30-01.30 SESSION- I Language and Linguistics Chair: K.V. Subbarao Venue: Council Hall 12.30-12.50 The Development and Implementation of a Writing System: Koĩc (Kiranti, Tibeto-Burman): Dorte Borcher 12.50-01.10 The Consequence of Code-Mixing the Adjective in NPs in Meiteilon-English: Tanmoy Bhattacharya 01.10-01.30 Raji: A Tibeto-Burman or Austro - Asiatic Language?: Kavita Rastogi 01.30-02.30 Lunch Break 02.30-03.30 Session II Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Acoustic Phonetics Syntax Ethnolinguistics Applied Linguistics Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be Chair: Temsunungsang T. Chair: Tanmoy Bhattacharya Chair: Hari Madhab Ray announced) Chair: Deepa Boruah 02.30-02.50 Acoustic analysis of the Nepali Tracing Burushaski through Tribal Development Boards and Influence of Assamese L2 plosives Case-marking Ethnic Languages in the on Mising L1 speakers: Krishna Prasad Chalise Pritha Chandra Darjeeling District Should we accept Anderson Glashan Bidirectional Transfer in SLA studies? Sarat Kumar Doley 02.50-03.10 Vowel space in Assamese Relative Clause in TinkarLo Language and the (Un) making of Issues in making dictionary: dialects Rajamathangi S the Nation: Sri Lankan Identity in A case study of Liangmai Leena Dihingia Carl Muller’s The Jam Fruit Tree Widinibou Charengna Priyankoo Sarmah and Aubrey Collette’s Editorial Wichamdinbo Mataina Cartoons Meenu Chaudhary 03.10-03.30 Status of Stop Consonant in DSM and DOM Phenomena in Ghatu : The Language of the The impact of Roman script Mymenshingia Assamese Gods for communication on Shaima Fahmida Manmee Bhattacharjya Karan Gurung Social Networking sites: A Rashmika Goswami case study of Assamese language in India Bijit Bollov Borthakur Murchana Borah 03.30-03.45 Tea Break 03.45-04.25 Session III Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Morphology Phonetics and Phonology Sociolinguistics Morphosyntax Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be Chair: Ritesh Kumar Chair: Hemanga Dutta Chair: Niladri Sekhar Dash announced) Chair: Pritha Chandra 03.45-04.05 Affix Suspension in Tibeto-Burman Role of lingual configuration Changing Language Forms for Adjective in Meiteiron Languages on the production of coronal Maximum Communicability: A (Manipuri) Tikaram Poudel stops in Nepali Case of Assamese-English Code- Pramodini Devi Rajesh Khatiwada mixing in Digital Space Nameirakpam Arundhati Mahanta Om Prakash 04.05-04-25 Reduplication as a Word Formation Nasalization, Pre-nasalization Code mixing in Nepali Language Gender and gender Phenomenon in Bodo and other morpho-phonemic spoken in Gangtok town agreement in Darjeelinge Aleendra Brahma processes in Gaddi Saraswati Mishra Nepali Anusuya Nayak Nirmal Niroula 04.30-05.30 Plenary Talk: K.V.Subbarao “Noun Modification in Tibeto-Burman Languages” Venue: Room No 11, G-Block, HSS building 09.30-10.50 Day II Session IV Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Syntax Phonology Semantics Classifier Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be Chair: Pritha Chandra Chair: Priyankoo Sarma Chair: George van Driem announced) Chair: Gautam K. Borah 09.30-09.50 A Study on the Clause Structure in Lamkang Phonology The expression of placement and Associative Plural marker in Phong Sumshot Khular removal events in Nepali Rajbanshi: A case of Niharika Dutta Shobhana Chelliah Krishna Parajuli classifier, affix or Anetta Kopecka construction? Hari Madhab Ray 09.50-10-10 Long Distance Binding and Opacity in English Loans and Nepali Analysis of ‘eat’ expressions in Class terms in Tai Khamyang Assamese Phonology: An OT account Bangla using image-schema and Anujeema Saikia Diganta Kumar Nath Hemanga Dutta metaphors and comparing productivity of these expressions On the Absence of the in standard and colloquial Bangla numerals in the definite Tanima Bagchi singular classifier phrase Rajesh Kumar Gautam K. Borah 10.10-10.30 Case Marker in Thulung Coda-less final syllables in Noun Incorporation in Manipuri- A study of Classifiers in Suman Rai Gaddi : a non - indo-aryan A Semantic Extension Assamese and Rabha feature Dhanapati Shougrakpam Samhita B Sakshi Kalra 10.30-10.50 Nominalization in Chungli Ao Syllable Structure of Totok A Study on Some Selective Numeral Classifiers in Naroti Jamir Chingkho Complex Predicates in Bangla Nepali Anisha Sinha Nivedita Mitra Krishna Maya Manger Mouparna Sen 10.50-11.00 Tea break 11.00-11.30 Poster Presentation Session I Venue: HSS Building Lounge (Ground floor) P1-01 Pooja Saikia Characterization of the Assamese language on the basis of Chierchia’s nominal mapping parameter P1-02 Mayashree Mahanta Ambiguity in Assamese Language: An Analysis P1-03 Krishna Hazarika The Particle "u" in Assamese P1-04 Anjali Nair and Yangchen Roy Phonological Distribution of Malayalam Dative Case Markers P1-05 Bijayanti Haobam Roots and Affixes in Somdal (a dialect of Tangkhul) P1-06 Bediskiva Nath Reduplication in Assamese P1-07 Dhrubajyoti Doley Noun Formation of the Mising Language of the Tani group P1-08 Bandita Saikia A lexical comparison of Standard Assamese and Barpetia variety of Assamese P1-09 Elangbam Manimohon Meitei The Negative Construction in Mao P1-10 Rujab Muchahary Word Formation in Bodo P1-11 Pemlhamu Tamang Phi-feature in Tamang P-12 Murchana Lopamudra Language Loss: A sociolinguistic survey of the loss of Assamese Traditional Knowledge System 11.20 Group Photo Session Venue: HSS Building Lounge (Ground floor) 11.30-01.10 Session V Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Syntax Ethnolinguistics Folklore and Culture General Linguistics Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Chair: Madhumita Barbora Chair: Pramodini Nameirakpam Chair: Sunil Kumar Dutta Chair: KV Subbarao 11.30-11.50 Language Mixing in Assamese Biate: An ethnolinguistic study Of Being Tiwa in Assam: Reconstructing a 2nd person mirative DPs: An Exoskeletal Approach Rajuram Boro Assimilation and Beyond construction for Central Himalayan – Chandrika Baruah Daimalu Brahma Maitrayee Patar and beyond? Monali Longmailai Marie-Caroline Pons 11.50-12-10 Tag Questions in Manipuri The Structure of Kinship words Transitivity Analysis of A Contrastive Study of Some And German in Patriarchy and Matrilineal Contemporary Legends of Linguistic Features of Two Varieties Niranjana Thokchom Societies (Special reference to Assam of Bangla Ch. Yashawanta Singh Assamese, Garo and Khasi Arunima Das Gargi Roy, Rajesh Kumar languages) Biswajit Das 12.10-12.30 A brief discussion on the Re-carved Histories and Local “Burhi Aair Xadhu” and the Nouns in Sukte : A Preliminary Compound verb Realities: A Study of the Role of Politics of Writing the Folk Investigation constructions in the Science as Discourse in Shaping Archana Deka Arambam Sadananda Assamese Language a Tai-Ahom Identity Sushanta Rajkhowa Kabita Chiring 12.30-12.50 Predicate constructions in An Ethnolinguistic Study of Some aspects of Folkoristics in Phonological pattern of sound Bulu Puroik Personal Names in Khelma Dimasa change in Barpetiya Assamese Ismael Lieberherr Pushpa Bhattacharyya Monali Longmailai Dulumani Das Barshapriya Dutta Murchana Lopamudra 12.50-01.10 Scrambling in Tinkar-Lo The Traditional Cultural Heritage Kinship Terms of Hunphun- Causatives in Mara Bimrisha Mali of the Liangmai Naga in North Tangkhul Meenakshi Chaudhary East India Yatmi Luikham Charengna Widinibou 01.10-02.30 Lunch Break 02.30-03.30 Session VI Venue: Department of EFL, HSS Building Sociolinguistics Language Endangerment Language Technology Typology Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be announced) Room No (to be Chair: Bornini Lahiri Chair: Kavita Rastogi Chair: Utpal Sharma announced) Chair: Tikaram Poudel 02.30-02.50 Conversational code switching: A Language Endangerment and Extraction and processing of web Typological profile of case study on Bodo Language Vitality in the news data to create a structured Kanashi: Some preliminary Jupitara Boro Darjeeling- Sikkim Himalayas corpus observations Samar Sinha Arpita Chakraborty Anju Saxena Niladri Sekhar Dash Anna Sjöberg 02.50-03-10 Kinship Terms in Khelma Documentation and Decomposing Bangla Verbs as Dirang Monpa and Tshangla Barshapriya Dutta Preservation of the Languages Decontextualized Autonomous - A Phonological and Lexical Pushpa Renu Bhattacharyya of the Primitive Tribe Groups Lexical Units for Multi-Domain Comparative Study (PGT): A Study of the Birhor Applications Ankita Karmakar Language of Jharkhand Niladri Sekhar Dash Uttam Kr Pegu Saket Bhardwaj 03.10-03.30 Sonowal Kachari: A Tai-Khamyang perspective Preparation of Digital Lexical Lexical Comparison of South A case study of language loss in towards language Database from a Multi-Domain Munda Languages Assam maintenance"