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Half day: March 26^th
Special Session honoring Rahul Balusu

8:00 am Welcome and opening remarks

8:10 am – 8:20 am Anna Szabolcsi (NYU): Remembering Rahul

8:30-9:30am Plenary talk: (Chair: Hariprasad M)
K.A. Jayaseelan (English and Foreign Languages University)
Inversion structures: some puzzles of reconstruction

9:30am-9:45am break

9:45am-10:45am Plenary talk: (Chair: Rajesh Bhatt)
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (National University of Singapore)
Universal free choice in Tibetan and beyond

10:45am-11:00am break

11:00am-12:30pm Session: Semantics and Syntax (Chair: Ishani Guha)

Negative what exclamatives in Bangla
Kousani Banerjee and Arka Banerjee (EFLU, Jadavpur)

Telugu Anaphors and Distributed Reduplication
Livia Camargo Souza and Sreekar Raghotham (independent, Rutgers)

Two types of pluractionality within Kannada verbal
reduplication
Sadhwi Srinivas and Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins)

Main Session I: March 27th

8:00 am Welcome and opening remarks by:
Howard Lavine,
Associate Dean of the Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts

8:20am-9:20am Plenary talk: (Chair: Miriam Butt)
Ayesha Kidwai (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Unlabelled Structures: Scrambling Asymmetries, Hindi-Urdu style

9:20am-9:35am break

9:35am-10:35am Session: Morphosyntax (Chair: Claire Halpert)

Morphosyntax values itself
Troy Messick and Sreekar Raghotham (Rutgers)

Singular tum is not plural: a Distributed Morphology analysis of
Hindi verb agreement
Yash Sinha (MIT)

10:35am-10:50am break

10:50am-11:50am Plenary talk: (Chair: Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
Sakshi Bhatia (Central University of Rajasthan)
Preverbal syntactic complexity and local coherence effects in Hindi

11:50am-12:00pm quick break


12:00pm-1:30pm Session: Phonology (Chair: Savithry Namboodiripad)

Factorial typology of *CC in Sylheti
Amalesh Gope, Arpita Goswami and Paroma Sanyal (Tezpur,
Kalinga Institute, IITD)

Exhaustivity in Gujarati at the syntax-prosody interface
Kinjal Joshi and Sameer Ud Dowla Khan (Oslo, Reed)

Phonological analysis of Tone Inducing Consonants in Punjabi
Manujata Gupta and Paroma Sanyal (IITD)


1:30pm-2:30pm lunch break + social session


2:30pm-4pm Session: Syntax and Semantics (Chair: Hooi Ling Soh)

Sinhala Involitive Verbs from a cross-linguistic perspective:
Distinguishing Involuntary Agents from Involuntary Causers
Tharanga Weerasooriya, Maria-Luisa Rivero and Ana Arregui (Sri
Jayewardenepura, Ottawa, UMass Amherst)

Restrictions on multiargument agreement in Maithili focus and
non-focus constructions
Elango Kumaran and Samir Alam (USC)

Negation and Agreement in Coorgi
Ksenia Bogomolets and Saurov Syed (Auckland)

Main Session 2: March 28th

8:00am-9:00am Plenary talk: (Chair: Veneeta Dayal)
Utpal Lahiri (English and Foreign Lanuages University)
Modal-Aspect Interactions in Bangla

9:00am-9:15am break

9:15am-10:45am Session: Semantics (Chair: Diti Bhadra)

Embedding gerunds and QC clauses: A case of factivity
alternation in Bangla
Arka Banerjee (Jadavpur)

Questions: presupposed ignorance, answers and focus
Tharanga Weerasooriya (Sri Jayewardenepura)

Inverse scope in scrambling languages: the case of Bangla
Ishani Guha, Swarnendu Moitra and Paul Marty (Delhi, Jadavpur,
UCL)

10:45am-11am break

11am-1pm Lightning talks by poster presenters + Poster session in breakout
rooms. Posters:

Phonation differences in the stop laryngeal contrasts of Jangli
Qandeel Hussain (Toronto)

The Urdu Active Impersonal
Sana Kidwai (Cambridge)

Semantic mismatch and copular variation in Psych-PC
predicates in Telugu
Nikhilesh Thirukovela (IITD)

Diagnosing the information structure of verb scrambling in
Hindi-Urdu
Vikalp Kumar Ashiqehind (independent)

‘ki’: the interrogative disjunction morpheme in Bangla
Ambalika Guha (Adamas)

Person and Honorificity Agreement: A Comparison between Maithili and Bangla
Preeti Kumari (IITD)

1pm-2:00pm lunch break + social session


2:00pm-3:30pm Session: Semantics and Syntax (Chair: Ashwini Deo)

Bengali Verb-stranding VP Ellipsis and Ellipsis Identity
Conditions
Shrayana Haldar (UMass Amherst)

A compositional account of the apparent polysemy of Hindi 'bhī'
Benjamin Slade, Vandana Puri, Archna Bhatia and Aniko Csirmaz
(Utah, independent, Human & Machine Cognition, Utah)

Analyzing Hindi & Bangla -to: A case for Anti-Exhaustivity as a
Discourse Category
Bhamati Dash, Madhumanti Datta and Andrew Simpson (USC)

3:30pm-3:45pm break

3:45pm-4:15pm Business meeting/wrap-up