| Monday 18th June 2018, Venue: Room 1001, University of Konstanz | |||
| Workshop on the Prosody of South Asian languages | |||
| 09.15 - 09.30 | Welcome (Miriam Butt) | ||
| 09.30 - 10.30 | Aditi Lahiri Aspects of prosody in Bengali |
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| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11.00 - 12.00 | Ashwini Deo & Judith Tonhauser On the prosody of pragmatic focus in Chodri, Gujarati, and Marathi |
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| 12.00 - 13.00 | Jennifer Cole Hindi prosody through the lens of Prominence Theory (SLIDES) |
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| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch break | ||
| 14.00 - 15.00 | Caroline Féry The prosody of discontinuous nominal phrases in Indian languages: a comparative study |
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| 15.00 - 16.00 | Frank Kügler Prosody, focus, speaker variation and focus perception in Hindi |
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| 16.00 - 16.30 | Coffee break | ||
| 16.30 - 17.15 | Farah Adeeba, Tania Habib, Benazir Mumtaz, Sahar Rauf, Saba Urooj Urdu intonation |
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| 17.15 - 18.15 | Hans Henrich Hock Utterance Finality, SOV, and Kashmiri word order (SLIDES) |
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| 19.30 | Workshop dinner (Brigantinus) | ||
| Tuesday 19th June 2018 | |||
| 09.00 - 11.00 | Registration | ||
| 09.45 - 10.00 | Welcome: Regine Eckardt (Room V1001) | ||
| 10.00 - 11.00 | Plenary talk: Sameer ud Dowla Khan (Reed College, Portland) Building a unified intonational model for South Asian languages: InTraSAL (SLIDES) |
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| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee break (A5) | ||
| Phonetics & Phonology (Room V1001) Session chair: Sameer ud Dowla Khan |
Case I (Room K7) Session chair: Christin Schätzle |
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| 11.30 - 12.00 | Farhat Jabeen & Bettina Braun Duration or alignment? Perception of prosodic cues of narrow & corrective focus in Urdu/Hindi (SLIDES) |
Ashwini Deo & Damayanti Tiwari Understanding oblique-based ergative patterns in two Bhili languages |
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| 12.00 - 12.30 | Nasir Abbas Rizvi Syed Synchronic and Diachronic Phonological Processes in Indo-Aryan |
Christine Carr & Sadaf Munshi Dative and Oblique Case Morphology in Burushaski: A Comparative Study |
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| 12.30 - 13.00 | Muhammad Nawaz & Ayaz Afsar Voice Onset Time (VOT) in Hindko Stop Sounds |
Joanna Tokaj Main argument marking in Medieval Rajasthani |
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| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch break | ||
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Poster Session & Coffee break (A5) | ||
| Morphology and Syntax (Room V1001) Session chair: Ashwini Deo |
Case II (Room K7) Session chair: Ayesha Kidwai |
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| 16.00 - 16.30 | Rahul Balusu The Polarity Item Question Particle -oo in Matrix Clauses in Kannada and Telugu |
Aaricia Ponnet & Saartje Verbeke Animacy, specificity and verb semantics. What drives Differential Object Marking in Hindi? |
16.30 - 17.00 | Andriana Koumbarou & E. Marie Thaut The marker -e in Sylheti: Pragmatic, agentive and instrumental uses |
| 18.30 - 19.30 | Reception at the historic Rathaus (town hall) of Konstanz | ||
| Wednesday 20th June 2018 | |||
| Special session in memory of Alice Davison & James W. Gair (Room K7) | |||
| 09.00 - 09.30 | Hans Henrich Hock Tribute to Alice Davison & Jim Gair Session chair: Anoop Mahajan |
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| 09.30 - 10.30 | Barbara Lust Linked Open Data in Linguistics: Preserving and Extending the Work of James W. Gair on Sinhala First Language Acquisition Comments: Veneeta Dayal |
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| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee break (K7) | ||
| 11.00 - 12.00 | K. V. Subbarao Stem 1 and Stem 2 Predicate Alternations in Mizo (Kuki-Chin) from the Finiteness Point of View Comments: Rajesh Bhatt |
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| 12.00 - 13.00 | Tanmoy Bhattacharya Agreement Variation in Adverbial and Relative Participles in Hindi-Urdu Comments: Anoop Mahajan |
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| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch break | ||
| 14.00 - 15.00 | Ayesha Kidwai COMP-Lex Subordination: A theoretical account of SAY based complementizers in South Asia Comments: Joseph Bayer |
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| 15.00 - 15.30 | Coffee break (K7) | ||
| Semantics/Pragmatics (Room V1001) Session chair: Gilliam Ramchand |
Syntax II (Room K7) Session chair: Joseph Bayer |
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| 15.30 - 16.00 | Hisashi Morita A study of the disjunction particles and wh-elements in Malayalam, Sinhala, and Japanese |
Uta Reinöhl & Antje Casaretto Secondary predicates in Vedic Sanskrit - On the challenge of identifying syntactic categories in a “non-configurational” language |
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| 16.00 - 16.30 | Gouthaman K. J. Plurals in Malayalam: the nonhuman pluralities without plural suffix |
Paolo Milizia Split grammaticalization of ‘be’ in New Indo-Aryan |
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| 16.30 - 17.00 | Tharanga Weerasooriya Decomposing the specific unknown reading of some Sinhala indefinite |
Elena Bashir Stative participles in Hazara Hindko |
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| 17.00 - 17.30 | Sushanta Rajkhowa Agreement Shift and Complementizer Interaction in Assamese |
Rainer Kimmig Hindi-Urdu Compound Verbs and Russian Aspect. The Evidence of Translations |
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| 19.30 | Conference dinner (Konzil) | ||
| Thursday 21st June 2018, | |||
| 10.00 - 11.00 | Plenary talk: Gillian Ramchand (The Arctic University of Norway) Room V1001 Argument Structure, Directedness and Context Sensitivity. Evidence from Bengali, Marathi, and Japanese |
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| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee break (A5) | ||
| Language Contact (Room V1001) Session chair: Tanmoy Bhattacharya |
Lexical Semantics (Room K503) Session chair: Veneeta Dayal |
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| 11.30 - 12.00 | Jessica Ivani & John Peterson Language contact in prehistoric South Asia, with special reference to eastern South Asia |
Liudmila Khokhlova The conceptual domain of pain in Hindi language |
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| 12.00 - 12.30 | Chundra Cathcart The Inner-Outer hypothesis of Indo-Aryan: a computational study |
Ashwini Vaidya & Eva Wittenberg Frequency regulates argument sharing effects in Hindi light verb constructions |
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| 12.30 - 13.00 | Alexander Coupe On contact-induced grammaticalization in South Asia |
Maarten Lemmens & Kalyani Sahoo Finding your way through the light verb jungle: The case of Odia |
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| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch break | ||
| Historical Linguistics and Resources (Room V1001) Session chair: Hans Hock |
Language Description (Room K503) Session chair: Frans Plank |
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| 14.00 - 14.30 | Christian Faggionato, Edward Garrett, Samyo Rode & Nikolai Solmsdorf A Dependency Tagged Corpus of Tibetan Texts |
Theresa McGarry & Martha Michieka Responsibility in Letters to the Editor in Sri Lankan and Kenyan Englishes |
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| 14.30 - 15.00 | Boris Zakharyin Lost and not fully found: accusative as marker of Pānini’s ‘karman’ in history of Indo-Aryan |
Pradip Molsom A descriptive account of the Molsom language |
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| 15.00 - 15.30 | Krzysztof Strónski On the tense and aspectual value of the IA converb. Lessons from early NIA |
Rebeka Borang Blending as major word formation process in Adi |
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| 15.30 - 16.30 | Closing and Coffee (A5) | ||
| List of Posters | |||
| Authors | Titles | ||
| Poster 1 | Bhim Lal Gautam | Language Shift in Newar: A Case Study in Kathmandu Valley | |
| Poster 2 | Bipasha Patgiri | Onset controlled voicing assimilation in Mising | |
| Poster 3 | Eva Wittenberg & Ashwini Vaidya | Peeling oranges in Hindi: Ergative case-marking as cue in real-time event construal | |
| Poster 4 | Kumari Mamta | The Morphosyntax of Numeral System | |
| Poster 5 | Miki Nishioka | Tendency towards co-occurrence of negative sentences with lenaa TAKE as a V2: a corpus-based case study of Hindi | |
| Poster 6 | Miriam Butt, Ashwini Deo & Saira Bano | Verbs of Achievement & Tense Paradigms in Hazaragi | |
| Poster 7 | Mubashir Iqbal and Riaz Mangrio | Pluralization of the Plurals in Urdu: An OT Analysis | |
| Poster 8 | Nandini Bhattacharya | Adjectival Quantification & Definiteness in Bangla | |
| Poster 9 | Pratik Kumar Mahant | Semantic Change of Some Sanskrit Words in Hindi | |
| Poster 10 | Rajamathangi S. | V-Stranding Constructions in Tamil: Argument ellipsis or V-Stranding VP ellipsis | |
| Poster 11 | Reena Ashem | Exceptionality: probing the phonological exceptions in Meiteilon compounds | |
| Poster 12 | Sandipa Dey | A morphological profile of Tripura Bangla | |
| Poster 13 | Shubham Srivastava & Sarada Biswas | Reversing Compound Verbs in Hindi: What it means for the semantics and the pragmatics | |
| Poster 14 | Shyamal Das | Metrical pattern in Noakhali Bangla: an OT account | |