33RD SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES ANALYSIS ROUNDTABLE (SALA-33)

FACULTY OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES CHAIR OF ORIENTAL STUDIES

DS Jowita, Zwierzyniecka 7 15-17th MAY 2017

PROGRAMME

15TH MAY - MONDAY

8.00-9.00 REGISTRATION

9.00-9.20 OPENING CEREMONY

9.20-9.45 MEMORIAL FOR ALICE DAVISON, JAMES GAIR AND BRAJ KACHRU

by HANS HENRICH HOCK AND SHIKARIPUR SRIDHAR

9.45-10.45 PLENARY LECTURE – ANNIE MONTAUT (INALCO)

Discourse particles in Hindi and the relation between grammar, enunciation and “modal” meanings

10.45-11.15 COFFEE BREAK

ROOM A ROOM B

Workshop Diversity in the Vedic lexicon and its role in reconstructing the most ancient Indo-Aryan language layers

11.15-11.45 Hans Henrich Hock Out of India? A new look at the linguistic arguments and evidence

Maria Piera Candotti and Tiziana Pontillo The lexicon of the “act of accepting (pratigraha)”: an approach to the multilayered Vedic culture

11.45-12.15 S.N. Sridhar Breaking the language barriers: language mixing as a civilizational strategy in South Asia

Jens Braarvig Historical semiosis of Vedic words: The cases of vajra

and ātman

12.15-12.45 Kamal Sridhar Sociocultural Variables in Language Maintenance: Thanjavur Marathi

Kristen De Joseph The Sky in Ceremony: Textual Variants in Sūryā's Bridal Hymn (RV̥ 10.85, AVP 18, AVŚ 14)

12.45-14.00 LUNCH BREAK

15TH MAY - MONDAY

14.00-14.30 Dörte Borchers How to write Koĩc (Kiranti, Tibeto-Burman): Linguistic and social aspects in the development and implementation of a writing system

Kyoko Amano Uses of ha / ha vái / ha sma vái with or without the narrative perfect and language layers in the Old Yajurveda-Saṃhitā texts

14.30-15.00 Thapasya Jayaraj and Rajesh Kumar Variation of Lexical Items and the Changing Need of Identity Expressions

Joanna Jurewicz Polysemy and cognitive linguistics. A case of vána.

15.00-15.30 Anuradha Kanniganti Is ‘English supply’ the only route to livelihoods? Language and work in a multilingual economy

Frank Köhler The translatability of kavíkratu and the lexical diversity of rigvedic poetological lexicon

15.30-16.00 Emma Walters Attitudes towards English in a remote North Indian town

George Pinault Exploring the language layer of the Rigvedic dânastuti genre

16.00-16.30 COFFEE BREAK

16.30-17.00 Danielle Ronkos The Role of Pitch in Gurung Tone

Umberto Selva Atharvaveda Paippalāda, Book 17, Anuvāka 6. The draft-ox vrata, a missing link between Vrātya culture and Pāśupatism

17.00-17.30 Shashikala Honnapa The Reflexes of Retroflex Approximant (ɻ ) in Kannaḍa Language

Paola Maria Rossi áhir budhnyàḥ and dundubhí: the Serpent of the Deep and the earth-drum: hypothesis of etymological and/or cultural connections

15TH MAY - MONDAY

17.30-18.00 Noboru Yoshioka Echo-formation in Kati as a neighbouring language of Kalasha and Khowar

Velizar Sadovski Diachronic, diatopic and diastratic developments of inherited Indo-Iranian lexicon and phraseology in the history of the Vedic text corpus: historical (Rigveda – Khilas – Atharvaveda – Yajurveda) and comparative (Veda vs. Avesta) perspectives

18.00-18.30 Prarthana Acharyya and Shakuntala Mahanta Deori tonal contrasts: A generational account

Discussion

16TH MAY – TUESDAY

9.00-10.00 PLENARY LECTURE – TANMOY BHATTACHARYA (University of Delhi)

Agreement and pronominalisation: two different ways to Agree

10.00-10.30 COFFEE BREAK

ROOM A ROOM B

10.30-11.00 Atanu Saha A comparative study of the Anaphors in Meiteilon, Nyishi and Toto

Shubham Srivastava and Sarada Biswas Labelling Finiteness as a Semantic Feature

11.00-11.30 Padmabati Achom Does non-finiteness predict modality in Meeteilon?

Rainer Kimmig Resultative Constructions in Hindi-Urdu and Other Indo-Aryan Languages. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives

16TH MAY – TUESDAY

11.30-12.00 Gaurashyam Singh Hidam Variations in Meeteilon

Andrea Drocco Baṅgāṇī ergativity: attempt of an in depth study

12.00-12.30 Alfina Khaidem Syntactic Variation: A comparison between Meeteilon and Non-Meeteilon speakers

Boris Zakharyin and Liudmila Khokhlova Role clusters rotation in Iranian and Indo-Aryan (diachronic and synchronic aspects)

12.30-14.00 LUNCH BREAK

14.00-14.30 Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Tor Anders Åfarli Meiteilon DPs and comparative syntax

Leonid Kulikov Labile verbs in Old Indo-Aryan: their origin, decline and fall (A typological perspective)

14.30-15.00 Chandrika Baruah Minimalist analysis of beneficiary / goal datives in Assamese

Eystein Dahl Experiencer subject verbs with object alternation in Vedic

15.00-15.30 Andriana Koumbarou Word order, agreement and case in Hindi from a Dynamic Syntax perspective

Roland Pooth The Early Vedic pīpáya- type

15.30-16.00 Miki Nishioka Does denaa GIVE as a V2 render benefactive meaning in Hindi?

Tista Bagchi On Aktionsart issues relating to dative-experiencer predicates in Indic

16.00-16.30 COFFEE BREAK

16.30-17.00 Ghanshyam Sharma A pragmatic account of definite and indefinite descriptions in Hindi - the case of 'hai' and 'hotā hai' forms

Saartje Verbeke The phenomenon of co-argument sensitivity in Indo-Aryan. A case study of the role of referential features in the argument structure of Kashmiri.

16TH MAY – TUESDAY

17.00-17.30 Wojciech Zeyland A preliminary study of the Tamil comparative postpositions

Shyamal Das Word-minimality vis-à-vis morphophonemics of genitives in NKB

17.30-18.00 Madelyn Kissock Quotative Clauses in Telugu

Nandini Bhattacharya A semantic perspective on modified numerals in Bangla

18.00-18.30 Alexander Coupe The typology of pragmatic case marking in Tibeto-Burman

Mayuri Dilip and Rajesh Kumar Dissociation of case and agreement in Santali

19.30 Dinner – Restaurant Hatti, 13, Woźna Street [ul.]

http://hatti.pl/kontakt.html

17TH MAY – WEDNESDAY

9.00-10.00 PLENARY LECTURE – HENRIK LILJEGREN (Stockholm University)

Northwestern Indo-Aryan and the rise of diversity in the Hindu Kush – Karakoram

10.00-10.30 COFFEE BREAK

ROOM A ROOM B

10.30-11.00 Marijana Janjić, Sara Librenjak, Kristina Kocijan and Lana Orešić On-line Hindi and Sanskrit dictionary for student community in Croatia and elsewhere

Patrycja Ava Markus Some aspects of noun morphology in Toto

17TH MAY – WEDNESDAY

11.00-11.30 Allan Desoulieres Translation and bilingual lexicography : the case of French to Urdu and Urdu to French, analyzing some specialized bilingual glossaries

Joanna Tokaj Converbs in light verb constructions in New Indo-Aryan

11.30-12.00 Rajyarama Koppaka and Abhijit Debnath Translating Cuisine Verbs from Telugu to Bangla: A Feature Interactive Model (FIM)

Cormac Anderson New database resources for the Indo-European lexicon

12.00-13.00 LUNCH BREAK

13.00-13.30 Olivier Hellwig and Ashwini Deo A Linguistic analyzer for building a database of Old Marathi

13.30-14.00 Olivier Hellwig and Sven Sellmer Multi-layer annotation of the Rigveda – methods and scholarly applications

14.00-14.30 Rafał Jaworski and Krzysztof Stroński Recognition and multi-layered analysis of converbs in early NIA

14.30 Closing and invitation to SALA-34 in Konstanz