Program

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

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

Friday, April 10, 2026                                               

8:50-9:20        Registration and Breakfast                  

9:20-9:30        Opening Remarks                     

Session 1 – Chair:                                     

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

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:                                     

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

12:40-2:00    Lunch              

Session 3 - Chair:                                      

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:                                     

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

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      

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

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break                                

Session 6 – Chair:                                                       

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

11:40-1:00     Lunch                                

Session 7 – Chair:                                                       

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        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           

2:30-2:45       Break                                  

Session 8 – Chair:                                                       

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        Sampada Deshpande            Raising and resolving an evaluative issue:

                            Ashwini Deo   the kya ↓ strategy in Hindi-Urdu     

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   

Remote Program

8:30am-9:45am

Zoom session 1 

Preeti Kumari and Cora Pots

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

Hariprasad Doley and Deepak Alok     

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

Monica Rajguru.        

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

9:45-10am   Break

10-10:50am Poster session

10:50-11am Break

11am-12:15

Zoom session 2

Md Abul Afzal Mubashshir

Contextual Licensing of Bare Nominals in Hindi

Ansuman Mishra   

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

Sakshi Singh    

Interaction of DOM and Split Ergativity in Haryanvi

12:15-12:30 Break

12:30-1:30 Keynote Diti Bhadra Title TBA

Poster Presentations:

Akankshya Mishra

The Internal Structure of Plural Expressions: Reconsidering NumP in Odia

James Wamsley

Rose Fischamn

The Hakha Lai Discourse Particle ko

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

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

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