Program

Differential Object Marking in Kodava takk: a complex interaction between multiple factors

Saurov Syed and Catherine Lee

Egocentric Questions in Bangla

Rajesh Bhatt, Arka Banerjee, and Kousani Banerjee

Contact-Induced Change: Restructuring of Word Order in Himalayan Indo-Aryan Languages

Saket Bahuguna

⭐️ Invited Talk: Multilingualism and Language contact in Nepal

Dr. Bhim Lal Gautam,  Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Case-Sensitive Nominal Stem Allomorphy in Telugu

Akshay Aitha

Acoustic Correlates of Word-level and Phrase-level Stress in Mankiyali

Jonathan Paramore and Aurangzeb

⚡️Short Talks 1

1. 13:30-13:35: Hashmita Agarwal
   Dependent dative case in Hindi-Urdu
   
   

2. 13:35-13:40: Sakura Ishikawa and Shigeki Yoshida
   Relative clause constructions in New Indo-Aryan languages: Hierarchies of macro roles
   
   

3. 13:40-13:45:  Gurmeet Kaur        

Honorific nouns are not regular plurals: evidence from Punjabi

Q&A for online presenters until 14:05 ET / 23:35 IST

4. 14:05-14:10: Troy Messick and Sreekar Raghotham         

Pseudo-ABA in Dravidian and the containment hypothesis

5. 14:10-14:15: Sreekar Raghotham         

 Reflexives and Anticausatives 

Q&A for in-person presenters until 14:30 ET/ 00:00 IST

⭐️ Invited Talk: Linguistic creativity, meaning potential, and multilingualism in India

Dr. Rakesh M. Bhatt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

⚡️Short Talks 2

1. 10:30-10:35: Srabasti Dey        
   Finiteness in Bangla equative clauses

2. 10:35-10:40: Joshua Dees        
   Kannada through the lens of the NP/DP parameter

3. 10:40-10:45: Aaditya Kulkarni        
   Marathi Polar Question Particles (and their kith & kin)

4. 10:45-10:50: Ritu Santh        
   An Exoskeletal Frame Model Analysis of Copula Constructions in the Northern Kasaragod Variety of Malayalam

Q&A for online presenters until 11:10 ET / 20:40 IST

5. 11:10-11:15: Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock
   The Internal Syntax of iva-Clauses in Vedic Sanskrit

6. 11:15-11:20: Ria Upreti and Savithry Namboodiripad        
   Hindi-Urdu speakers living in the US show increased word order flexibility

Q&A for in-person presenters until 11:30 ET / 21:00 IST

Step-UP Agreement in Hindi-Urdu

Pravaal Yadav

Language Contact and Sound Change: Reasons for Mutual Unintelligibility Between Formal and Informal Registers of Tamil

Anushri Kartik-Narayan

Investigating English Syntactic Transfer in Spoken Tamil Through the Copula

Suganya Rajendran Schmura

⭐️ Invited Talk: Anthropological Perspectives on Multilingualism in a Tamil-Speaking Diaspora

Dr. Sonia Das, New York University

⚡️ Short Talks 3

1. 8:30-8:35: Madhusmitha Venkatesan
   Grammatical Gender in a Tamil-Hindi Bilingual Situation: The Role of Feature Valuation

2. 8:35-8:40: Revathi Suresh
   The Effect of Definiteness in Processing of Embedded Sentences in Malayalam

3. 8:40-8:45: Chandni Dutta and Sayantani Banerjee
     ‘-Te’ marker as a plural in Bangla

4. 8:45-8:50: Sayantani Banerjee
   Deficiency of person feature and language change 

5. 8:50-8:55: Krishna Prasad Chalise        
   Language contact, maintenance, and shift in the Magar community

Q&A for online presenters until 9:30 ET / 19:00 IST

⭐️ Invited Talk: (Copular) Agreement in the languages of Western India

Dr. Sakshi Bhatia, University of Delhi

Asking a polar question while invoking a wh-question: Hybrid interrogatives in Hindi-Urdu

Ashwini Deo

Urdu light verbs reveal Voice head variation

Sana Kidwai and Frances Sobolak

Questioning the Areal Hypothesis for Classifiers in North-East India

Patrick Das

Business meeting