Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages

16-17 March 2019

Program

SATURDAY 16 MARCH 2019

8:00-8:45

breakfast + registration (3rd floor atrium)

8:45-9:00

opening remarks (PAB320)

Sameer ud Dowla Khan (Reed)

9:00-11:45

Talk session I: Dravidian syntax and semantics (PAB320)

9:00-10:00

Invited talk: Revisiting focus markers in Malayalam

Mythili Menon (Wichita SU)

10:00-10:30

The Dravidian correlative and the disjunction marker

Rahul Balusu (EFLU)

10:30-10:45

tea (3rd floor atrium)

10:45-11:15

Restructuring within the nominal domain in Kannada light verb constructions

Sadhwi Srinivas* & Géraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins)

11:15-11:45

Telugu: An accusative case study

Sreekar Raghotham* (Rutgers)

11:45-12:00

tea (3rd floor atrium)

12:00-1:00

Poster session I (PAB 3rd floor hall)

‘Verb agreement’ as theta marking in Indian Sign Language

Samar Sinha (Sikkim U)

Malayalam tense morphology: a reanalysis using DM lens

Anjali Nair* (JNU)

Non veridicality of habitual context: analysing the role of complex predicates in NPI licensing

Vyom Sharma* (IIT Delhi)

Investigating local coherence effects in Hindi

Sakshi Bhatia* (UMass) & Samar Husain (IIT Delhi)

Split ergativity in Nepali

M Stoddard** (Reed)

1:00-2:00

lunch (3rd floor atrium)

2:00-4:15

Talk session II: Experimental approaches and variability (PAB320)

2:00-3:00

Invited talk: An experimental approach to flexible constituent order: Insights from Malayalam

Savithry Namboodiripad (U Michigan)

3:00-3:15

tea (3rd floor atrium)

3:15-3:45

Optionality in Hindi schwa deletion: interaction between weighted prosodic constraints

Paroma Sanyal & C. Tanuj Barla* (IIT Delhi)

3:45-4:15

Phonetic reduction effects in Malayalam

Elaina Wittmer** (Reed)

4:15-4:45

tea + business meeting (PAB332)

4:45-5:45

Talk session III: Indo-Aryan syntax and semantics (PAB320)

4:45-5:15

Aspectual particles in Hindi

Saket Bahuguna*, Benjamin Slade, & Aniko Csirmaz (U Utah)

5:15-5:45

In support of a choice functional analysis of Sinhala ðə

Samantha Wathugala* & Virginia Dawson* (UC Berkeley)

6:15-

dinner (details TBA)

SUNDAY 17 MARCH 2019

8:15-9:00

breakfast (3rd floor atrium)

9:00-11:45

Talk session IV: Indo-Aryan syntax and semantics (PAB320)

9:00-10:00

Invited talk: Deconstructing correlatives: individuals and properties - the case of Hindi-Urdu correlatives and Georgian rom relatives

Rajesh Bhatt (UMass)

10:00-10:30

The morphosyntax of Magahi addressee agreement

Deepak Alok* (Rutgers)

10:30-10:45

tea (3rd floor atrium)

10:45-11:15

Settling the future: the performative effects of aspectual contrasts

Ashwini Deo (Ohio SU)

11:15-11:45

Movement within and without a clause

Yadav Gowda* (MIT)

11:45-12:00

tea (3rd floor atrium)

12:00-1:00

Poster session II (PAB 3rd floor hall)

Marathi complement clause structure

Amaresh Joshi* (Michigan SU)

Davidsonian and Kimian states in the gerund-copula landscape

Diti Bhadra (Harvard) & Arka Banerjee* (Jadavpur)

Agreement attraction in subject agreement and object agreement: evidence from Hindi

Sakshi Bhatia* & Brian Dillon (UMass)

Fortition in marked on marked contexts: velar stopping in Sylheti

Ankita Prasad* (IIT Delhi)

Palatalization and velarization in Malayalam nasals

Sameer ud Dowla Khan (Reed)

1:00-

lunch (3rd floor atrium, available to go)

*The presenter is a graduate student
**The presenter is an undergraduate student