<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All,<div class="">Here is the webpage for the schedule and abstracts of the 2nd Workshop on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in the Northeast India - Myanmar - Southwest China Region, to be held 28-29 December, 2021, online (the times given are Japanese Standard Time):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~sawadah/lcd-neimswc/workshop2.html" class="">http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~sawadah/lcd-neimswc/workshop2.html</a></div><div class=""><ul class="">
<li class="">If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please contact
<font color="blue" class=""><a href="mailto:sawadah@aa.tufs.ac.jp" class="">sawadah@aa.tufs.ac.jp</a></font> <b class="">by 23 December.</b>
We will send you the link to the meeting room by the date of the
workshop.</li>
<li class="">We are planning to submit a selection of papers from the two workshops
as a special issue of the journal <i class="">Asian Languages and Linguistics</i>
(Benjamins).</li>
</ul><div class=""><h2 class="">Timetable:</h2>
<h3 class="">Day1: 28 DEC 2021</h3>
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<td style="width: 117.617px; text-align: center;" class="">10:30-10:40</td>
<td style="width: 974.383px; height: 24.8px;" class="">Opening</td>
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<td class="td" style="text-align: center;">10:45-11:35</td>
<td class="td" id="otsuka">Kosei OTSUKA (Osaka University, Japan):<br class="">
<a href="http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~sawadah/lcd-neimswc/workshop2.html#otsuka-abst" class=""><i class="">Lexical borrowing in Asho Chin</i></a><br class="">
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<td class="td" style="text-align: center;">11:45-12:35</td>
<td class="td" id="zakaria">Keita KURABE (ILCAA, Tokyo University of
Foreign Studies, Japan):<br class="">
<a href="http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~sawadah/lcd-neimswc/workshop2.html#kurabe-abst" class=""><i class="">Is Jinghpaw conservative or innovative?
The lexical borrowing rate in Jinghpaw</i></a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" class="">12:35-13:40</td>
<td class="">Lunch break</td>
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<td class="td" style="text-align: center;">13:40-14:30</td>
<td class="td" id="kurabe">Randy LaPOLLA (Beijing Normal University,
China):<br class="">
<a href="http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~sawadah/lcd-neimswc/workshop2.html#lapolla-abst" class=""><i class="">Manifestations of Jinghpaw influence
among Rawang speakers</i></a></td>
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<td class="td" style="text-align: center;">14:40-15:30</td>
<td class="td" id="marseille">Carmen Eva MARSEILLE (Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore):<br class="">
<a href="http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~sawadah/lcd-neimswc/workshop2.html#marseille-abst" class=""><i class="">Variation within Tai Leng in Northern
Myanmar</i></a></td>
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<td style="text-align: center;" class="">15:40-16:30</td>
<td class="">Muhammad ZAKARIA (JSPS Research Fellow, Osaka University,
Japan):<br class="">
<a href="http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~sawadah/lcd-neimswc/workshop2.html#zakaria-abst" class=""><i class="">Lexical and grammatical
borrowings and replications in Hyow, a language of the
Bangladesh-Myanmar border area</i></a></td>
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<h3 class="">Day 2: 29 DEC 2021</h3>
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<td style="width: 117.617px; text-align: center;" class="">10:30-10:35</td>
<td style="width: 974.383px; height: 24.8px;" class="">Business announcement<br class="">
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<td class="td" style="text-align: center;">10:35-11:25<br class="">
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<td class="td" id="kato">Atsuhiko KATO (Keio University, Japan):<br class="">
<a href="http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~sawadah/lcd-neimswc/workshop2.html#kato-abst" class=""><i class="">On the homeland of Karenic languages: from
the perspective of plant names</i></a><br class="">
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<td class="td" style="text-align: center;">11:30-12:20<br class="">
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<td class="td" id="suzuki">Hiroyuki SUZUKI (Fudan University, China):<br class="">
<a href="http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~sawadah/lcd-neimswc/workshop2.html#suzuki-abst" class=""><i class="">Geolinguistic approach to the migration
history in the south-eastern edge of the Tibetosphere:
Methodological remarks</i></a><br class="">
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<td style="text-align: center;" class="">12:20-13:20<br class="">
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<td class="">Lunch break</td>
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<td class="td" style="text-align: center;">13:20-14:10<br class="">
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<td class="td" id="sawada">Hideo SAWADA (ILCAA, Tokyo University of
Foreign Studies, Japan):<br class="">
<a href="http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~sawadah/lcd-neimswc/workshop2.html#sawada-abst" class=""><i class="">Attempts to plot the source languages of
village names on a map of Kachin State, Myanmar</i></a></td>
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<td class="td" style="text-align: center;">14:15-15:05<br class="">
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<td class="td" id="das">Bishakha DAS :<br class="">
<i class="">TAI KHAMTI: Some areas of Semantic
Specialisation & Cultural Lexicon</i> </td>
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<td class="td" style="text-align: center;">15:10-16:00<br class="">
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<td class="td" id="coupe">Alexander COUPE (Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore):<br class="">
<a href="http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~sawadah/lcd-neimswc/workshop2.html#coupe-abst" class=""><i class="">Accounting for language contact and
linguistic diversity in Nagaland</i></a></td>
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<td class="td" style="text-align: center;">16:00-16:55<br class="">
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<td class="td">Discussion<br class="">
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<td style="text-align: center;" class="">16:55-17:00</td>
<td class="">Closing</td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>