Block

Workshops

Conference

Date

Fri, Jan 18

Sat, Jan 19

Sun, Jan 20

Mon, Jan 21 (a)

Mon, Jan 21 (b)

Tues, Jan 22

Session

WS1a

WS3a

Opening

Khasian
Chair: U. V. Joseph

Assamese
Chair: Madhumita Barbora

Tani
Chair: Thangi Chhangte

9:00 - 9:30

Adjectives
Stephen Morey

Monolingual fieldwork demonstration Robbins
Burling/
U V Joseph

 Registration

Derivational morphology in Pnar: A field survey
Hemanga Dutta

The referring systems and the determinative elements of nouns in Assamese
Jagat Kalita

Morpho-syntactic variation in Pagro and Sayang dialects of Mising community
Jugendra Pegu

9:30 - 10:00

 Opening addresses

Agreement in Khasi
George Bedell

Copular sentences in Asamiya
Runima Chowdhary

Topographical deixis in
Tani and beyond
Mark Post

10:00 - 10:30

Independent pronouns and pronominal clitics in Khasi
Badaplin War

Gender inequalities and sexism in Assamese
Arup Nath

Body parts in Adi Pasi: A theoretical analysis
Amar Singh

10:30 - 11:00

 Tea 

 Tea 

 Tea

Tea

Tea

Tea

Session

WS1b

WS3b

Introductory
Chair: Stephen Morey

Descriptive Phonology Chair: Anita Tamuli

Lexicon 1
Chair: Gwendolyn Hyslop

Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax 3
Chair: Robbins Burling

11:00 - 11:30

Adjectives
Stephen Morey

Monolingual fieldwork demonstration
Robbins
Burling/
U V Joseph

Three confusing meanings of “language” and “dialect” in northeast India
Robbins Burling

Phonology of Ruga
Caroline Marak

Universal quantifiers in Manipuri
Chandam Betholia

Request constructions in the Tibeto-Burman languages of Manipur
Chungkham Yashsawanta Singh

11:30 - 12:00

Naming of Deuri
Uddipan Dutta

Mishmi phonology
Thangi Chhangte

Pronouns in Manipuri and Purum
H. Surmangol Sarma
N. Gopendro Singh

Interrogatives in Kom
Santosh Kumar Sanasam

12:00 - 12:30

Outcomes of contact: Variability in NP structure of Bishnupriya
Shobhana Satyanath and Nazrin Laskar

Hajong phonology
Liza Guts

Naga body part terms
Abhishek Avtans

Nocte and Jingpho: Morphological correspondences
Scott DeLancey

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Session

WS2a

WS4a

Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax 1
Chair: Abhishek Avtans

Field reports/surveys
Chair: Erik Andvik

Lexicon 2
Chair: Th. Chandramani Singh

Nominalization
Chair: Mark Post

1:30 - 2:00

Topics in NEI language
description Thangi
Chhangte

TBA
Scott DeLancey

Negation in Chothe
Brojen Hidam Singh

Case markers in Hajong
Virginia Phillips

Naming practice in Manipuri
L. Manimala

Nominalization in Assamese
Madhumita Barbora

2:00 - 2:30

Person and TAM marking in Tangsa
Stephen Morey

Preliminary notes on Tawang Monpa (Dakpa)
Gwendolyn Hyslop

Meitei personal names of Manipur
Nonghthombam Russell

Nominalization and related phenomena in Marma
Keisuke Huziwara

2:30- 3:00

Structural analysis of Thangal as an SOV language
Th. Chandramani Singh

Some aspects of
the structure of Monpa
Awadesh Mishra

Comparative Study of Kom and Aimol Numerals
Chongom Damrengthang Aimol

Functions of nominalization in Karbi: A comparative case study
Linda Konnerth

3:00 - 3:30

 Tea

 Tea

 Tea

 Tea

Tea

 Tea

Session

WS2b

WS4b

Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax 2
Chair: Scott DeLancey

Surveys and Phonology Chair: Shobhana Satyanath

Language and Society in Manipur
Chair: Chungkham Yashsawanta Singh

Special Session
Chair: Jyotiprakash Tamuli

3:30 - 4:00

Topics in NEI language
description Thangi
Chhangte

TBA
Scott DeLancey

Towards a reconstruction of Proto-Bodo-Garo: The PBG noun phrase
Daniel Wood

Classifiers in North East languages
Joyshree Sutradhar

On being polite in Meitei Society: A socio-linguistic study of speech levels in Meiteilon

Ch. Sarajubala Devi

TBA

4:00 - 4:30

TBA

Phonology of [x] in
Barpetia Assamese
Mukul Sarma

Problems in making a multilingual dictionary: With special reference to Manipuri-Hindi-English
Leihaorambam Sarbajit Singh/
Soibam Imoba Singh

4:30 - 5:00

TBA

Tribal Meiteilon:
A General Overview
Karung Tarun Kom/
Losii Heshu

Evolution and recent development of Meitei Mayek
Thounaojam Harimohon

Business Meeting