38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India
November 10-12, 2016
PROGRAM
Registration and Opening Ceremony
9.00-10.00
10.00-11.00
11.00-12.00
DAY-1
12.00-12.20
12.20-12.40
12.40-13.00
13.00-13.20
Registration
Opening Ceremony & High Tea
Keynote: Prof. Hans Henrich Hock: South Asia and Historical Linguistics
HALL-A: Phonetics & Phonology
HALL-B: Syntax
HALL-C: Language Typology
Session Chair: Shakuntala Mahanta
D1A01: Nishant Lohagun
An analysis of steady-state formant
frequencies and vowel duration in oral
monophthongs of standard and Darjeeling-ey
Nepali
D1A02: Anjaneyulu Ghandapuram
Phonological factors in Short Message Service
(SMS) of Telugu native speakers: A Pilot Study
Session Chair: Tanmoy Bhattacharya
D1B01: Bornini Lahiri
Marking the Space through various Cases
Session Chair: Anvita Abbi
D1C01: Bikram Jora and Gregory D S
Anderson
Spatial expressions, directionals and
serialization in Birhor
D1B02: Marykim Haokip
Pronominalization in Thadou, a Kuki-Chin
Language
D1A03: Anusuya Nayak
Nasalization, Pre-nasalization and other
Morpho-phonemic processes in Gaddi
D1A04: Bipasha Patgiri
Nature of vowel sequences and hiatus
resolution in Nalbaria Assamese
D1B03: Meenakshi Chaudhary
Anaphors in Mara
D1C02: Kavita Rastogi, Sumedha Shukla and
Ajay Kumar Singh
Some Aspects of Jad An Endangered
Language
D1C03: Sapam Sangita Chanu
A Phonological Study of Zeme
D1B04: Padmabati Achom
The Syntax of scope of Epistemic and Deontic
Modals in Meeteilon
13.30-14.30: Lunch
D1C04: Soibam Imoba and Oinam Nanao
Problems in giving English prepositional
correspondence to Manipuri postposition in
bilingual dictionary
38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India
November 10-12, 2016
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HALL-A: Morphosyntax
DAY-1
14.30-14.50
14.50-15.10
Session Chair: Arup Kumar Nath
D1A05: Aleendra Brahma and Bidisha Som
Core Cases and Definitives Correlation in Bodo
and Dimasa
D1A06: Alfina Khaidem
Feezing Effect of Complementiser in Meeteilon
15.10-15.30
D1A07: Basavaraja Kodagunti
How many case markers in a language: a
study on Kannada
15.30-15.50
D1A08: Ojaswee Bhalla
Interaction of Wh-series and Topic Particle ‘to’
in Hindi
15.50 – 16.10
D1A09: Rajamathangi S
Stripping in Tami
HALL-B: Cognitive Linguistics & Language
Acquisition
Session Chair: Umarani Pappuswami
D1B05: Madhavi Kushwaha
Understanding Polysemy : Cognitive
Approach
D1B06: Paroma Sanyal
Locating Root Identity: Acquisition of
suppletive morphology
D1B07: Bidisha Som, Sugandha Kaur and
Sampreeti Das
Literal and Metaphorical Comprehension of
Auditory Sense Perception Verb in Assamese
D1B08: Vasanta Duggirala
Semantic properties of Reduplicated
expressions in Telugu: A cognitive Linguistic
perspective
D1B09: Suman Beniwal
Linguistic analysis of military euphemisms
16.10-16.30: Tea
16.30-17.30: LSI EC Meeting
HALL-C: Language Typology
Session Chair: T Temsunungsang
D1C05: Wanglit Mongchan
Verb reduplication in Hawa Nokte
D1C06: Wichamdinbo Mataina
A phonology of Liangmai
D1C07: Yashawanta Singh Ch and Brindebala
Devi Naorem
Changes in Negative markers in Kakching
Dialect
D1C08: Chandrika Barua
Case variation in Kamrupi and Eastern
Assamese
D1C09: Priyanka Shukla & Shailendra Singh
Linguistic Landscaping in India: with special
reference to Mumbai
38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India
November 10-12, 2016
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HALL-A: Morphology & Morphosyntax
DAY-2
09.00-09.20
Session Chair: Yashawanta Singh Ch
D2A01: Arup Kumar Nath
Verbal Inflectional Paradigm in the Darrangia
Dialect of Assamese
09.20-09.40
D2A02: Shreya Mehta
Verb Inflection in Gaddi
09.40-10.00
D2A03: Dhanapati Shougrakpam
Nominal Compounds in Manipuri
10.00-10.20
D2A04: Hari Madhab Ray
Menu Cards of the Eateries in JNU (Jawaharlal
Nehru University): A Survey of Morphological
Processes
10.20-10.40
D2A05: Shailendra Mohan
Nihali Morpho-syntax: Internal and External
Factors in their Development
10.40-11.00
D2A06: Tikaram Poudel
Suspended Affixation in Manipuri
HALL-B: Language Technology &
Language disorder
Session Chair: S Ranbir Singh
D2B01: Felix Bast
Subgroup structure of the language families
of India revealed using computational
phylogenetics
D2B02: Mohammad Mamun Or Rashid
App for Endangered Language
Documentation: Functions in the Field
D2B03: Indranil Dutta, Irfan S and Priyankoo
Sarmah
Statistical Learning Models for vowel
identification from V-to-V coarticulation in
Assamese non-harmonic VCV sequences
D2B04: Ritesh Kumar
Using and evaluating Google OCR for
Devanagari: Case of Bodo and Braj Text
Corpora
D2B05: Smita Jha and Krishna Kumar
Pandey
Language Disorder in Early and Later
Childhood
D2B06: Anuja Singh, Ruchi Singh and
Priyanka
Autism: A Case Study
11.00-11.50: Tea & Poster Session A
HALL-C: Semantics
Session Chair: Bidisha Som
D2C01: Emily Thomas
Mood and Modality in Totok Chingkho
D2C02: Atreyee Mukherjee and Achla M
Raina
Fictive Motion in Spatial and Non-spatial
Domains in Bangla
D2C03: Sannati More
Person, social and spatial deixis in Totok
Chingkho
D2C04: Anirban Sarkar
Spatial representation in Bengali through
vectors
D2C05: Christina Kharlukhi and Gordon
Deans Dkhar
Argument Structures And Thematic Roles in
Rongmei: A Case Study
D2C06:
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November 10-12, 2016
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PA01: Sarada Biswas and Tista Bagchi
Tectogrammatical Representation and Annotation in Hindi and Bangla: A
possible strategy for semantic information retrieval
PA02: Aisha Saleh
Effects of gender and dialect on the production of word and sentence durations
of three Yemeni Arabic Dialects: An acoustic study
PA03: Arya K S
Non-intervocalic Geminates in Malayalam
PA04: Dhrubajyoti Das and Paromita Nandy
Language Variation in consonant phonology of native Bangla speakers in Kerala
when speaking Malayalam
PA05: Gulab Chand and Somdev Kar
Sonority and Reduplication in Hadoti
PA06: Juri Saikia
Contrast Between Oral And Nasal Vowels In Sadri Spoken In Assam
PA07: Loitongbam Sarankumari Devi
Sound System of Kabonglo
PA08: Hanjabam Surmangol Sharma
Morphophonemic Changes in Manipuri
PA09: Temsunungsang T and Chomgom Damrengthang Aimol
Some phonological and morphological aspects of Aimol
PA10: G.S. Bansode.
An Ostracized Language and an Evaluation of Ethnolinguistic Vitality: A Case of
Paradhi
PA11: Alkafil Choudhury
Hajong- A Study in Relation to Assamese and Bengali
PA12: : Enakshi Nandi and Noel Mark Sequeira
Konkani in the post-post-colonial era
PA13: Laxmi Kumari and Md Mojibur Rahman
Santhal and Mundari Folktales of Jharkhand: A Study in Sociocultural
Discourse
PA14: Moumita Pakrashi
Modern Standard Colloquial Bangla: Micro and Macro Segment Study
PA15: Deepa Mary Joseph and Arun Thomas A
PA16: Pratik Kumar Mahant, Priyeshi Kumari and Salman Alam
Matrimonies in Kerala Society-A Sociolinguistic Approach
Classification Of Euphemism With Reference To Hindi
PA17: Ambika Sankar Mishra & Biswanandan Dash.
PA18: Reshma Jacob
English Loanwords in Malayalam
The New Media Language
PA19 Sukdeb Goswami
Co-operative Principle & hyperbolic statements in poetry
PA20: Pitambar Behera & Sharmin Muzaffar
Proposing a Pāniniān Parser for Case Marker Errors in English-Odia Machine
Translation
38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India
November 10-12, 2016
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HALL-A: Sociolinguistics and Hindi
DAY-2
11.50-12.10
12.10-12.30
12.30-12.50
Session Chair: Mithilesh Jha
D2A07: Louriyam Bebica Devi
Proverbs in Khurkhul
D2A08: Debmalya Biswas
Polarizing Hinduism: A Sociolinguistic Scrutiny
of the Virtual Domains
D2A09: Divya Pathak
बदलाव के बीच हिन्दी: अतीत, वततमान और भहवष्य
12.50-13.10
D2A10: Deepak Kumar and Neeta Tiruwa
अभद्र किावतों में स्त्री : एक मनोभाषा वैज्ञाहनक परख
13.10-13.30
D2A11:
HALL B: Language Technology and
Processing
HALL- C: Semantics & Discourse
Session Chair: Vasanta Duggirala
D2B07: Apurva and Samar Husain
What Do Hindi Native Speakers Predict?
Investigating Verb Class, Verb Morphology
and Word Order
D2B08: Dhirendra Singh
Predicting Compositional Degree in Multiword
Expression using Word Embeddings
D2B09: Revathi Suresh
Processing of Embedded Complement Clauses
and Relative Clauses in Malayalam
Session Chair: Paroma Sanyal
D2C07: Nandini Bhattacharya
Modified Numerals in Bangla: A Semantic
view
D2B10: Sugandha Kaur
Bilingual language representation and
processing: Evidence from simple picture
naming
D2B11: Sudha Bhingardive & Dhirendra
Singh
Automatic Synset Ranking for Indian
Languages using Word Embeddings
D2C10: Chandan Kumar
Number referents and Plurality in Magahi
13.30-14.30: Lunch
D2C08: Shraddha Ratori
Hindi Mass Plurals
D2C09: Bishakha Das
‘Hue’ &'Brightness’ in Tai-Khamti: Colour
categorization and terminology
D2C11: Tariq Khan & Panchanan Mohanty
Identity jokes and the socio-pragmatic
standpoints: Examining the five Cs of humour
use in everyday interactions
38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India
November 10-12, 2016
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DAY 2
Plenary and Invited Talk
14.30 – 15.10
Plenary Talk: Tor Andres Åfarli
Endo- and exoskeletal models of grammar: How to explain argument structure flexibility, lexical creativity, and language mixing.
15.10 – 15.45
Invited Talk: Tanmoy Bhattacharya
Code-Switching without Grammar? Evidence from Language Mixing in Meiteilon-English and Bangla-Hindi
15.45-16.00: Tea
DAY 2
Special Session on Nominal Expressions
Special Session on Focus and Intonation
16.00-16.10
Introduction by Umarani Pappuswami
Introduction by Shakuntala Mahanta
16.10-16.30
SPO01: Raujline Akhtar and Gautam K Borah Distinguishing
Classifiers from Measure Terms in Karbi
SPO01: Ambalika Guha Focus and Deletion in the Bangla DP
16.30-16.50
SPO02: Parijat Narzary: Classifier in Bodo
SPO02: Barnali Oinam Intonation of Interrogatives in Barak Valley Meitei
16.50-17.10
SPO03: Maibam Somobala Devi The morphosyntax of
demonstratives in Meiteilon
SPO03: Meiraba Takhellambam Intonational phonology of Meiteilol
17.15-16.15: LSI GB Meeting
38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India
November 10-12, 2016
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HALL-A: Translation
DAY-3
09.00 - 09.20
09.20-09.40
09.40-10.00
Session Chair: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
D3A01: Madri Kakoti
Distorting ‘translation’: An examination of
J-Horror Manga ‘Tomie’
D3A02: Jyotirmoy Talukdar
Translating Disability, Disabling Translation:
Language and/of Disablement in Saurabh
Kumar Chaliha’s 'Hanhichampa'
D3A03: Arvind Rawat
Trends of Translation in Meghalaya: A
Historical Discussion
HALL-B: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Session Chair: Bidisha Som
D3B01: Anupama Purohit
Multilingualism and Early Childhood: A Study
of Word- Formation Processes
D3B02: Dripta Piplai
Code Avoidance and Multilingual Strategy:
The Language of Negotiation by the Artisan
Villagers of Odisha
D3B03: Poulami Das
Bilingual Learning Stategies Used by Bangla
Speaking Children to Acquire English as Their
Second Language
HALL-C: Morphosyntax of Negation
Session Chair: Diganta Nath
D3C01: R Karthick Narayanan
Mapping Morphological Properties of
Negation in Indian Languages
D3C02: Mechek Sampar Awan
Negation in Chiru
D3C03: Vyom Sharma
Syntax of Negation in Gaddi
10.00-11.30: Tea and Poster Session B
PB01: Daimalu Brahma
Derivational processes of the Bodo
PB02: Bijayanti Haobam
Nouns and Pronouns in Somdal (a dialect of Tangkhul)
PB03: H Dune Antonia Pao and Adu Pao
Verbal suffixes of Poula
PB04: Ganga Brahma
Complex Predicates in Boro
PB05: Gordon Deans Dkhar
Word Order Typology of Jingphaw: A Tibeto-Burman Language
PB06: Suranjana Barua
Filling in the blanks: A typological classification of some Assamese fillers
PB07: Trisha Borgohain
Causatives in Tai-Khamti
PB08: Gaurashyam Singh Hidam, Alfina Khaidem and Padmabati Achom
Ergative Case in Meeteilon
PB09: Kumari Mamta
Morphosyntax of Numeral System of Bodo and Meiteilon
PB10: Mary Kim Haokip and Hemminlal Haokip
Word Order in Biate
PB11: Pijush Kanti Gayen
Disambiguating Bangla Verbs in Lexical Functional Grammar
38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India
November 10-12, 2016
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PB13: Pooja Saikia
A Minimalist Approach to Small Clause of the Assamese language
PB14: Rujab Muchahary
Gender Distinction In Mech Dialect
PB15: Shubham Srivastava
Finiteness as a Semantic Concept in Hindi
PB16: Srikanth Kumar D and Ankita Karmakar
Reduplication and Onomatopoeias in Telugu and Bengali
PB17: Sumshot Khular and Shobhana Chelliah
Reduplication in Lamkang
PB18: Lourembam Surjit Singh
Semantic and Syntactic Features of CP in Meeteilon
PB19: Venial In Goodhope Marthong
Word formation in Mawїang
PB20: Atreyee Sharma & Pramod Rout
Rule based disambiguation of "se" in Odia
PB21: Pitambar Behera & Sharmin Muzaffar
An Experiment with CRF++ Parts of Speech Tagger for Odia
PB22: Maitrayee Patar
Of Being Tiwa in Assam: Assimilation and Beyond
DAY-3
11.30-11.50
11.50-12.10
12.30-13.00
HALL-A: Syntax
Session Chair: Tanmoy Bhattacharya
D3A04: Nivedita Mitra
A Study on Some Asymmetries in Bangla
D3A05: Renu Kumari
Aspectual Class Shift in Magahi
HALL-B: Language in Media
Session Chair: Priyankoo Sarmah
D3B04: Priyanka Rachabattuni and Nandi
Chinni Kumar
Television Advertisements and its Language
Change: A Critical Study on the Issues of Audio
Visual Machine Translations
D3B05: Sayani Banerjee and Shrirupa Sen
Code-Switching in Bangla Movies—A Syntactic
Study
HALL-C: Writing systems and Historical
Linguistics
Session Chair: P N Kamala
D3C04: Bobita Sarangthem, Laishram Lokendro
and Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho
Script and phonology of Meiteilon; a diachronic
study
D3C05: Janani K
Colonial Linguistics, Ancient Grammatical Texts
and the Construction of ‘Tradition’: A Study of
the Tolkappiamo
Valedictory, Closing & Certificates
13.00-14.00: Lunch