[Tibeto-burman-linguistics] Call for participation: International workshop on typological profiles of language families of South Asia, 15-16 September 2016

[Anju Saxena]

International workshop on typological profiles of language families of South Asia

Gustavianum (Auditorium Minus)

Uppsala University

http://www.lingfil.uu.se/forskning/konferenser/lfsa/



15-16 September 2016



Program



15 September


8.30–9.00


Registration


9.00–9.10


Opening


9.10–9.50


Typological profile of the Great Andamanese language family


Bernard Comrie (UCSB) & Raoul Zamponi


9.50–10.30


Typological features of Burushaski and their context


Jan Henrik Holst (Universität Hamburg)


10.30–10.50


TEA/COFFEE


10.50–11.30


Indo-Aryan within an areal perspective


Anju Saxena (Uppsala University) & Lars Borin (University of Gothenburg)


11.30–12.10


Outer and Inner languages, and northern India as a linguistic area


Claus Peter Zoller (Oslo University)


12.10–13.30


LUNCH


13.30–14.10


Indo-Aryan features in the two Iranian border languages Pashto and Balochi


Carina Jahani (Uppsala University)


14.10–14.50


Profiling Indo-Aryan in the Hindukush-Karakoram: A preliminary study of micro-typological patterns


Henrik Liljegren (Stockholm University)


14.50–15.30


Genetic relationship and typology of the languages of the Neelam valley


Khawaja A. Rehman (University of Management Sciences and Information Technology Kotli)


15.30–15.50


TEA/COFFEE


15.50–16.30


TBA


Michael Dunn (Uppsala University)


16.30–17.10


Proto-Munda typology, modern Munda languages and the ‘Sinosphere/Indosphere’ debate


Gregory D.S.Anderson (Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages)


18.00 Workshop dinner: Uppsala castle, Vasasalen



16 September 2016


9.30-10.10


Alignment of verbal person marking in Tibeto-Burman languages


Scott DeLancey (University of Oregon)


10.10–10.50


Typology of spatial and motion distinctions in Tibeto-Burman verbal expressions


Carol Genetti (UCSB), Kristin Hildebrandt (SIU Edwardsville), Nate Simms (UCSB) & Alexia Fawcett (UCSB)


10.50–11.10


TEA/COFFEE


11.10–11.50


Tibeto-Burman tone typology


Kristin Hildebrandt (SIU Edwardsville) & Amos B Teo (University of Oregon)


11.50–12.30


Reported speech evidentiality in Tibeto‐Burman Languages


Lauren Gawne (SOAS)


12.30–13.50


LUNCH


13.50–14.30


Marathi: A typological profile


Sonal Kulkarni Joshi (Deccan College)


14.30–15.10


Metathesis in Indo-Aryan languages


Nasir Abbas R Syed (Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences)


15.10–15.30


TEA/COFFEE


15.30–16.10


Retroflexion in South Asia: Typological and areal patterns.


Paul Arsenault (Tyndale University College)


16.10–16.50


The retroflex/dental phoneme frequency in South Asian languages: The north-south cline and its implications


Alexei Kochetov (Tyndale University College) & Paul Arsenault (Tyndale University College)


16.50–17.10


Concluding remarks


Bernard Comrie (UCSB)


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