Program

FASAL 2026, In-person Program, University of South Carolina*

*scroll down or click here for the FASAL Remote Program (April 18)

Zoom Stream Day 1: https://sc-edu.zoom.us/j/82183124782

Friday, April 10, 2026                                               

8:50-9:20        Registration and Breakfast                  

9:20-9:30        Opening Remarks: Dr. Payal Shah (Walker Institute for International and Area Studies, USC)                     

Session 1 – Chair: Rajesh Bhatt                                    

9:30-10:00      Sahil Patel                     To be perfect and to be progressive: Aspectual

                     Prerna Nadathur                       distinctions through the Gujarati copula

10:00-10:30  Jyothiraditya Nellakra,           The Verbal Spine in Malayalam: The Causative                               

   JK Subramony                           and the Verbalizer are Picky

10:30-11:00  Anbahalath Vajuravel              Unifying Tamil Taan: Binding and Intensification

11:00-11:20 Coffee Break              

Session 2 – Chair: Emily Manetta                                    

11:20-12:30  Invited talk:  Troy Messick   

The domain and structure of reciprocals: Insights from Telugu

 Abstract here                        

12:40-2:00    Lunch              

Session 3 - Chair: Vincent Homer                                     

2:00-2:30        Priyanka Gupta           Asymmetry in Hindi-English PPs: Syntax, Morphology

and Headedness in Bilingual Distributed Morphology

2:30-3:00        Samopriya Basu        Borrowed morphology in Sulaymānī Balochi passive-formation

                            Maryam Jamali

3:00-3:30        Akshay Aitha                 The locality of allomorphic conditioning and the head-

   adjunct distinction in the morphology

3:30-3:50       Break  

Session 4 – Chair: Troy Messick                                    

3:50-4:20        Shravani Patil               It is Contrast-hii: The basic function of -hii and its extensions

4:20-4:50        Jose Benavides           Interrogative Force without Q-Projection: Question

Formation in Lutuv (Chin)

4:50-5:20        Vincent Homer           How Rigid is Scope in Hindi-Urdu?

                            Rajesh Bhatt  

                            Iva Kovač

6:00-8:00       Conference Dinner   Publico, Five Points

Zoom Stream Day 2: https://sc-edu.zoom.us/j/83009657457

Saturday, April 11, 2026                                                                                                            

8:30-8:45        Breakfast                                           

Session 5: Prosody and stress – Chair:    Sameer ud-Dowla Khan                                                     

8:45-9:15        Sreeparna Sarkar      Effect of Stress and Focus as Prosodic Prominence

   Phenomena on the perceptual accuracy of Bengali Stops            

9:15-9:45        Cor Zanda                 Prosody by Sentence Type in Haryanvi 

                            Sakshi Singh     

9:45-10:15     Benazir Mumtaz           Revisiting Lexical Stress in Urdu    

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break                                

Session 6 – Chair: Ashwini Deo                                                      

10:30-11:40  Invited talk:  Sameer ud-Dowla Khan                         

Bangla Sign Language: its context, its structure, its community

Abstract here  

11:40-1:00     Lunch                                

Session 7 – Chair: Benazir Mumtaz                                                     

1:00-1:30        Aidan Sharma              Magahi (In)Definiteness Spreading 

1:30-2:00        Sadhwi Srinivas          Existential readings with Kannada bare singulars: An

experimental study

2:00-2:30 Sampada Deshpande            Raising and resolving an evaluative issue:

                            Ashwini Deo   the kya ↓ strategy in Hindi-Urdu    

2:30-2:45       Break                                  

Session 8 – Chair: Sadhwi Srinivas                                                          

2:45-3:15        Nirnimesh Bhattacharjee    The Structure of Counterfactuals in Bangla            

3:15-3:45        Auromita (Disha) Mitra          Semantic contrasts in the four-copula system of

Bangla     

 3:45-4:15       Anthony Brandy          (Ir)regularity in the Semantic Extension from Directive

System to Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Hnaring Lutuv

    (Lautu) Chin and other South-Central Tibeto-Burman Languages             

FASAL 2026, Remote Program, ZOOM -- hosted by the University of South Carolina*

*click here for the FASAL In-Person Program (April 10-11)

Saturday April 18, 2026   

ZOOM LINK:  https://sc-edu.zoom.us/j/88251518583 (for the whole day session)

Remote Program

8:30-8:35 Welcome and Announcements (Emily Manetta)

8:35am-9:50am

Zoom session 1 -- Chair: Diti Bhadra

8:33-9:00 Preeti Kumani and Cora Pots

Reduplication as a pluralization strategy and more: A cross-linguistic perspective from Maithili and Afrikaans

9:00-9:25 Hariprasad Doley and Deepak Alok     

Argument Structure in Mising: A Decompositional Analysis of Voice, Cause, and Applicatives

9:25-9:50 Monica Rajguru and Jooyoung Kim        

Animacy-Driven A'-Movement of -ku-Marked Theme NPs in Odia Ditransitives

9:50-9:55am   Break

9:55-10:55am Poster session: https://app.virtualpostersession.org/e/e23a1f6639e661e7465bb1214655da6e

10:55-11am Break

11:00am-12:15

Zoom session 2 -- Chair: Akshay Aitha

11:00-11:25 Md Abul Afzal Mubashshir

Contextual Licensing of Bare Nominals in Hindi

11:25-11:50 Ansuman Mishra   

Scalar vs. Additive: A Comparative Analysis of Hele and Madhya in Odia

11:50-12:15 Sakshi Singh    

Interaction of DOM and Split Ergativity in Haryanvi

12:15-12:30 Break

12:30-1:30 Keynote  -- Chair: Emily Manetta

Diti Bhadra Surprise, Emotion, Cognition: Mirativity in Tibeto-Burman

1:30-2:00 Business Meeting (open)

Poster Presentations:

Akankshya Mishra

The Internal Structure of Plural Expressions: Reconsidering NumP in Odia

James Wamsley

Rose Fischman

The Hakha Lai Discourse Particle ko

Kapugollawe Anandakiththi

Theresa McGarry 

Colloquial Sinhala Conditional Structures

Madhusmitha Venkatesan and Biswanath Dash

Structural Height of Nominalization: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Gerundive Nominals in Three South Asian Languages

Srabasti Dey

Two types of nominal predication in Bangla

Therese Tom

Syntax feeds Phonology : Evidence from Kannada Nominal Inflections

Almas Ashraf

Examining aesa as an Expletive in Hindi-Urdu

Aaditya Kulkani

Marathi polar questions as a clause-edge phenomenon

Sudipta Saha

Atanu Saha

Delineating Ellipsis in Bangla VP Elided Structures

Sonal Sinha

Gurujegan Murugesan

Sequential probing in conjunct Agreement: Evidence from Central Magadhan Prakrit languages

Sumedha Gupta

4Ps in Bangla and a P(ragmatic solution)

Mouma Banik

Investigating Copy Raising and Perceptual Source in Bangla

Piyush Sharma

Sakshi Bhatia

A verb-stranding ellipsis (VSE) analysis of object gaps with ditransitives in Punjabi

Usha Udaar

Madan Mohan

Modeling Syntactic Prominence: The Competition of Aspect in Haryanvi