Publications & Presentations
Select Publications
Books:
2022. Tenyidie Tone: A Morpho-phonological Investigation. Kohima: PenThrill Publication House. ISBN: 978-93-93396-21-1
Archive:
2024. `Angami Tenyidie and Related Languages Collection’. Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL). (Announced: https://corsal.unt.edu/angami-tenyidie-and-related-languages-collection)
Papers:
In Press. `Dissimilation and phonological conspiracy in Tenyidie tone’, in Journal of Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
2022. (with Andrew Murphy) `Licensing and anaphora in Tenyidie’, in Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, vol. 7(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5740
2021. `Polarity in a Four-level Tone Language: Tone Features in Tenyidie’, in Phonology, vol. 38.1. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675721000063
2018. `Tenyidie: Another African Tone System in Southeast Asia?’, in TAL2018 [Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages], Berlin 2018. ISCA Archive. https://doi.org/10.21437/TAL.2018-34
2015. `The Fifth Tone of Tenyidie’, in Linda Konnerth, Stephen Morey, Priyankoo Sarmah, and Amos Teo (eds.) North East Indian Linguistics 7 (NEIL 7), Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/95392
2014. `Four versus Five: The Number of Tones in Tenyidie’, in Carlos Gussenhoven, Yiya Chen, and Dan Dediu (eds.) The 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2014, pp. 19-22. ISCA Archive. https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/tal_2014/meyase14_tal.html
Select Presentations
Invited talks:
2023. ‘Tone in Tenyidie and related languages’, invited talk at research seminar, School of Social and Political Science and Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK, 25th October 2023.
2021. `Documentation of Endangered Languages of Northeast India’, resource spokesperson at seminar, Department of English, St. Joseph University, Nagaland, IN, 14 July 2021.
2019. `Languages of the North East Region (NER) of India’, guest lecture in `English in South Asia: Past, Present, and Future', Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Technology (TU) Dresden, DE, 28 November 2019.
2019. `Tone Dissimilation in Tenyidie’, invited talk, research seminar, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, SE, 23 May 2019.
Peer-reviewed conference presentations:
2023. (with Yuni Kim) ‘Partial Tone Polarity and Tonal Feature Decomposition in Sopvoma’, The 2023 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2023). Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 20th-22nd October 2023.
2023. ‘Historical sound changes within the Tenyidie (Angami) Languages’, International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL) 56. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. 10th-12th October 2023
2023. (with Yuni Kim) ‘Intricate coda restrictions in loanwords of Tenyidie, an otherwise codaless language’, The 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM), University of Manchester. 25th-27th May 2023.
2022. `Tone and Affix Asymmetry in Tenyidie', The Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (LAGB) annual meeting. Ulster University, Belfast. 12th-15th September 2022.
2020. `A case of conspiracy up the mountains', 43rd Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 43). Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 8-20 April 2020.
2020. `OCP conspiracies in Tenyidie Tone', the 17th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP). University of Warsaw. 5-7 February 2020.
2020. `Dissimilation and Phonological Conspiracy in Tenyidie Tone', The 28th Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE 28). Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. 29-31 January 2020.
2019. (with Andrew Murphy) `Licensing and anaphora in Tenyidie', NELS 50. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 25-27 October 2019.
2019. (with Andrew Murphy) `Anaphora in Tenyidie: Reflexivization as mediated Agree', ‘Anaphora at the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface in endangered and understudied languages’. GLOW 42. University of Oslo. 7 May 2019.
2018. `A reanalysis of cross-featural polarity as OCP-driven insertion', The 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM), University of Manchester. 24-26 May 2018.
2018. `A reanalysis of cross-featural polarity as OCP-driven insertion', Tenth North American Phonology Conference (NAPhCX). Concordia University. 4-5 May, 2018.
2014. `Four versus Five: The number of Tone in Tenyidie’, The 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL), Radboud University Nijmegen. 13-16 May 2014.
2014. `The Fifth Tone of Tenyidie’, the Northeast Indian Linguistic Society (NEILS) 8th International Conference, Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati, Assam. 31 January-2 February 2014.
2012. (with Indranil Dutta, Mimi Kevichusa Ezung, and Shakuntala Mahanta) `Lexical Tones of Tenyidie: Fundamental Frequency, Voice Quality and Pitch Modelling’, Workshop on Tone and Intonation, IIT Guwahati. 26-27 January 2012.