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NEILS
2006 Schedule & Photos
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Monday, February 6
| Sess |
Slot |
Time |
Name |
Title |
| 1 |
a |
9.30 |
Registration |
b |
10:00 |
Tamuli, Jyotiprakash et. al. |
Inauguration and opening remarks |
| c |
11:00 |
Tea Break (15 minutes) |
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| 2 |
Session Chair: Stephen Morey |
| a |
11:15 |
Dey, Kakoli |
Spirantization in Silchar Bengali: Innovation or Diffusion? |
| b |
11:45 |
Burling, Robbins |
Diphthong formation and diphthong simplification in the Boro-Garo
languages |
| c |
12:15 |
Lowes, Gwendolyn |
Kurtoep phonology in the perspective of Northeast India |
| d |
12:45 |
Lunch Break (45 minutes) |
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| 3 |
Session Chair: Alec Coupe |
| a |
1:30 |
Temsunungsang, T. |
Lexical tone and intonation in Chungli |
| b |
2:00 |
Morey, Stephen |
Tones in Doaniya Singpho – a preliminary report |
| c |
2:30 |
Nath, Palash |
Language usage in the Singpho speaking areas, Lohit District, Arunachal
Pradesh |
| d |
3:00 |
François Jacquesson |
Boro-Garo languages within Tibeto-Burmese |
| e |
3:30 |
Tea Break (15 minutes) |
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| 4 |
Session Chair: Runima Chowdhary |
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a |
3:45 |
Marak, Caroline |
Link among the Ruga, Rabha & Hajong languages |
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b |
4:15 |
Borbora, Madhumita |
Quest for a script |
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c |
4:45 |
Andvik, Erik |
Linguistics and Language Development: Towards Local Community Empowerment
in NE India |
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d |
5:15 |
Pamela J. Mackenzie |
Language and culture in education: What can we do to ensure that
the language and cultural rights of Indian tribal communities are
honoured and respected within the education system? |
Tuesday, February 7
| Sess |
Slot |
Time |
Name |
Title |
| 5 |
Session Chair: TBA |
| a |
9:30 |
Laskar, Nazrin |
Temporality in Bishnupriya |
| b |
10:00 |
Satyanath, Shobha and Nazrin Laskar |
Lexicon in a contact language: Bishnupriya |
| c |
10:30 |
Das, Bishakha |
An exploratory study of terms of relationship in Khamti in the context
of the North East as a linguistic area |
| d |
11:00 |
Tea Break (15 minutes) |
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| 6 |
Session Chair: TBA |
| a |
11:15 |
Dhanwar, Bijoy |
Antidefiniteness in Assamese |
| b |
11:45 |
Bagchi, Tista and Pangersenla Walling |
Respecting the “Other”: Binding and the benefactive
marker in Ao Mongsen |
| c |
12:15 |
Moral, Dipankar |
Negation of Verbs in Brahmaputra Valley Languages: Asamiya, Singpho,
Deuri |
| d |
12:45 |
Lunch Break (45 minutes) |
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| 7 |
Session Chair: J. Tamuli |
| a |
1:30 |
Burgohain, Dipima |
Compound verbs in Assamese and Kashmiri: A comparative analysis |
| b |
2:00 |
Chowdhary, Runima |
Explorations in the Non-finite Verbal System in Assamese |
| c |
2:30 |
Coupe, Alec |
Shared patterns of clause linkage in the languages of Nagaland |
| d |
3:00 |
Diffloth, Gerard |
Khasi in the NE-India linguistic area: lexical evidence |
| e |
3:30 |
Tea Break (15 minutes) |
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| 8 |
Session Chair: Robbins Burling |
| a |
3:45 |
U V Joseph |
Causative prefixes in four Boro-Garo languages |
| b |
4:15 |
Breugel, Seino van |
Similarities in suffixal marking on nouns and verbs in A’Tong |
| c |
4:45 |
Post, Mark |
Verbs of posture, existence, location and possession and their grammaticalization
pathways in the Tani languages |
| d |
5:15 |
P. T. Abraham |
Verb Particles in Tani Languages |
| e |
5:45 |
Tamuli, J. et.al. |
Closing Remarks |
Photos
from NEILS 2006
Book launch Burling & Joseph
2006
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Presenting a paper
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Serving morning tea
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Discussions in the break
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Lunch
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A final song
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The organisers
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Group photo
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