Remote Program

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

8:35-9:00 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