Program

Program Committee: For questions and suggestions about the program: Rajesh Bhatt (bhatt@umass.edu), Veneeta Dayal (veneeta.dayal@yale.edu)

Change in Venue: Luce Hall (Room 203), 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT 06510. Space is somewhat limited, but zoom access is possible for all sessions except those explicitly noted as exceptions — please register here for zoom access.

Website Designer: Ushasi Banerjee (Yale Linguistics, USA)

 

                                                                 DAY 1: Friday April 29, 2022

Venue: Luce Hall (Room 203), 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven. Space is somewhat limited, but please register here for zoom access. (A suggestion: bring your laptop and headphones so you can sit in the lounge and zoom into the talks and participate in person during the breaks)

Breakfast: 8.45 – 9.30 am.

Welcome & Opening Remarks: 9.15

Prof. Steven Wilkinson

Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies; and Henry R. Luce Director, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; Dean, FAS Social Science Division

        Session 1: Official and Unofficial Languages 9.30 am – 12.30 pm

Some (un)official languages of South Asia (9.30 – 11.30): please register here for zoom access.

Tanmoy Bhattacharya (University of Delhi, India): Naming speechism: Towards Disability Justice [slides]

Ashwini Deo (The University of Texas at Austin, USA): Languages without borders: Distinguishing systems in the Bhili dialect continuum

Mutee u Rahman (Isra University, Pakistan): Historical Overview of (Un)official Status of Sindhi and its Variants [slides]

Q&A session: Moderator – Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz,Germany)

Break 11.30 – 11.45

Placing Braj on the linguistic map: A conversation (11.45 – 12.30): please register here for zoom access.

Rajesh Bhatt (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

& Swapna Sharma (MacMillan Center, Yale University, USA)

 

Lunch: 12.30 – 2 pm       

                                                          

       Session 2: Discourse Particles (in South Asian Languages) 2.00 – 7.00 pm

Venue: Luce Hall (Room 203), 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven. Space is somewhat limited, but please register here for zoom access.(A suggestion: bring your laptop and headphones so you can sit in the lounge and zoom into the talks and participate in person during the breaks)

Theoretical perspectives (2 – 3.30)

Josef Bayer (University of Konstanz, Germany): Discourse particles as functional heads: A comparison of German and Bangla [slides]

Simon Charlow (Rutgers University, USA): The syntax-discourse interface [slides]

Break 3.30 – 3.45

Zeroing in on some particles (3.45 – 5.45)

Deepak Alok (Panlingua, India): The discourse particle -waa in the Magahi nominal domain [Handout]

Diti Bhadra (University of Minnesota, USA): Epistemic indefinite restrictors as discourse particles: conjectural and recall questions [Handout]

Sakshi Bhatia (Central University of Rajasthan, India):  Discourse particles in the languages of (North) Western India [Slides]

Q&A session:  Moderator –  Maria Biezma (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

Break: 5.45 – 6.00 pm   

Poster Session (6 – 7)

Lightening Talks (6 – 6.20)  

Comfort Ahenkorah (Linguistics, Yale University, USA): The particle(s) ‘anaa’ in Akan [Abstract] [Poster]

Ushasi Banerjee (Linguistics, Yale University, USA): Some Bangla interrogative particles and where to find them [Abstract] [Poster]

Ojaswee Bhalla (Deccan College, Pune, India): Locating Hindi particle -to at the syntax-semantics interface  [Abstract] [Poster]

Jyoti Iyer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA): Discourse and the adverbial domain: Hindi-Urdu presupposition trigger ‘vaapas’ [Abstract] [Poster]

Jess H. K. Law (UCSC, USA), Haoze Li (GDUFS, China), Diti Bhadra (University of Minnesota, USA): Force Shift in Cantonese [Abstract] [Poster]

Yuyang Liu (Linguistics, Yale University, USA): Mandarin -ma: Q-morpheme, PQP, or something else? [Abstract] [Poster]

Ka Fai Yip (Linguistics, Yale University, USA): On Cantonese yes-no question particle aa4: evidential bias and confirmation [Abstract] [Poster]

Poster Session & wine and cheese (6.20 – 7): no zoom access.

 

Dinner 7 – 8 pm

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                                                          DAY 2 : Saturday April 30, 2022 

Venue: Luce Hall (Room 203), 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven. Space is somewhat limited, but please register here for zoom access. (A suggestion: bring your laptop and headphones so you can sit in the lounge and zoom into the talks and participate in person during the breaks)

Registration, Breakfast: 9.30 – 10 am.                                                        

        Session 1: Dialect and Language 10 – 12.30 pm

One English or many Englishes (10 – 11.15): please register here for zoom access.

Jim WoodRaffaella Zanuttini (Linguistics, Yale University, USA): “A language is a dialect with an army and navy” – is it? Insights from the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project  

Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary University of London, UK): Indian English, dialect diversity, and NLP [slides]

Break 11.15 – 11.30 am

Linguistic and social issues in South Asia (11.30 – 12.30): please register here for zoom access.

Tafseer Ahmad Khan (Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Pakistan): Hindi and Urdu: Popular perspective and linguistic perspective. [slides]

Deepika Padmanabhan (Political Science, Yale, USA): Linguistic Choice, Identity and Ideology in Tamil Nadu

 

Lunch: 12.30 – 2 pm

 

       Session 2: Language Diversity: Documentation & Maintenance 2 – 3.30 pm

Venue: Luce Hall (Room 203), 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven. Space is somewhat limited, but please register here for zoom access.(A suggestion: bring your laptop and headphones so you can sit in the lounge and zoom into the talks and participate in person during the breaks)

Shobhana Chelliah (University of North Texas, USA): Improving the description and documentation of Northeast Indian languages through language archiving [slides]

Claire Bowern (Linguistics, Yale University, USA): Thoughts on language technology and language archiving: South Asia from an outsider perspective [slides]

Joseph Errington (Anthropology, Yale University, USA): Living with a lingua franca: some Indonesian scenes of language endangerment 

Q&A session:  Claire Bowern & Joseph Errington

Break 3.30 –  3.45 pm

       Session 3: Language and Cultural Identity 3.45 – 8 pm

Venue: Luce Hall (Room 203), 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven. Space is somewhat limited, and zoom access is restricted to Yale and Yale affiliated people. Please write to veneeta.dayal@yale.edu for zoom links access to the talk at 3.45 and the Q&A at 6.30.

Kathryn Hardy (Ashoka University, India): Language of the Stage in the World of Screens: Stage Shows, Bhojpuri Cinema, and the Language of Anarkali Arawali (3.45 – 4.15)

Break 4.15 –  4.30 pm

Film showing (no zoom access, available on hulu): Anarkali Arawali (4.30 – 6.30 pm)

Poster of Anarkali of Aarah

Q&A session with actor Swara Bhaskar: Moderator Kathryn Hardy  (6.30 – 7.15 pm) 

Dinner  7.15 – 8 pm