11.845, Confs: Sixth Himalayan Languages Symposium

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Subject: 11.845, Confs: Sixth Himalayan Languages Symposium

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Date:  Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:23:10 -0500 (CDT)
From:  Michael Darnell <darnell at csd.uwm.edu>
Subject:  Sixth Himalayan Languages Symposium

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Date:  Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:23:10 -0500 (CDT)
From:  Michael Darnell <darnell at csd.uwm.edu>
Subject:  Sixth Himalayan Languages Symposium


The Sixth Himalayan Languages Symposium will be held June 15-17 2000
on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus. The program is given
below. For program updates and information on registration and
accommodations, consult Mickey Noonan's webpage at
http://www.uwm.edu/~noonan or e-mail either Mickey (noonan at uwm.edu) or
Edith Moravcsik (edith at uwm.edu).

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SIXTH HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM
JUNE 15-17 2000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE
CURTIN HALL #175A
(3243 N. DOWNER AVENUE, MILWAUKEE, WI)

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JUNE 15
THURSDAY MORNING:

8:00-8:30   /TITLE TO BE ANNOUNCED/
            Michael Noonan, University of Wisconsin-
            Milwaukee

8:30-9:00   ONE LANGUAGE, TWO SYSTEMS. NEPAL BHASHA VERB
            MORPHOLOGY
            Daya R. Shakya, A Center for Nepalese Language
            and Culture, Portland, OR

9:00-9:30   A TYPOLOGY OF VERB AGREEMENT IN BURUSHASKI
            Gregory D. S. Anderson and Randall H. Eggert,
            University of Chicago

9:30-10:00  THE IRREALIS CATEGORY IN CAODENG rGYALRONG
            Jackson T.-S. Sun, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

* * * * * *
10:00-10:30       COFFEE BREAK
* * * * * *

10:30-11:00 REFLEXIVE VERBS IN KOITS (SUNWAR)
            Dvrte Borchers, Himalayan Languages Project,
            Leiden University

11:00-11:30 A COMPARATIVE SKETCH OF TWO MAGAR DIALECTS
            Karen Grunow-Harsta, University of Wisconsin-
            Milwaukee

11:30-12:00 REFLEXIVES IN OMBULE
            Jean Robert M.L. Opgenort, Himalayan Languages
            Project, Leiden University

* * * * * *
12:00-2:00        LUNCH
* * * * * *

THURSDAY AFTERNOON:

2:00-2:30   LEXICAL ANAPHORS IN KHASI AND LONG-DISTANCE
            BINDING
            Saralin A. Lyngdoh and K.V. Subbarao,
            University of Delhi

2:30-3:00   DEICTIC CATEGORIES IN THE WEST BODISH LANGUAGES
            OF NEPAL. A TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
            Tej R. Kansakar, Tribhuvan University

3:00-3:30   A DIMENSION MISSED: EAST AND WEST IN SITU
            rGYLARONG ORIENTATION-MARKING
            You-Jing Lin, National Tsing Hua University,
            Taiwan

3:30-4:00   MOTION EXPRESSIONS IN GHALE
            Holly Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

4:00-4:30   PRONOUNS AND PROFORMS
            D.N.S. Bhat, Central Institute of Indian
            Languages, Mysore

* * * * * *
4:30-5:00         COFFEE BREAK
* * * * * *

5:00-6:30   WORKSHOP /TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED/
            David Gil, Institute for Evolutionary
            Anthropology, Leipzig

               FRIDAY, JUNE 16

FRIDAY MORNING:

8:00-8:30   SYNTACTIC ERGATIVITY AND PRAGMATICS: RAISING
            AND CONTROL IN BELHARE
            Balthasar Bickel, University of California at
            Berkeley and University of Z|rich

8:30-9:00   OBJECT MARKING IN CENTRAL TIBETAN
            Ellen Bartee, University of California at
            Santa Barbara

9:00-9:30   /TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED/
            Cassandra Stephens, University of Wisconsin-
            Milwaukee

9:30-10:00  CASE MARKING AND GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN SOME
            INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES OF NEPAL
            C.M. Bandhu, Tribhuvan University

* * * * * *
10:00-10:30       COFFEE BREAK
* * * * * *

10:30-11:00 THANGMI TIME CONCEPTS OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND
            FUTURE
            Mark Turin, Himalayan Languages Project, Leiden
            University

11:00-11:30 RELATIVE CLAUSES IN KHOWAR
            Elena Bashir, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

11:30-12:00 THE CONSTRUCTION OF RELATIVE CLAUSES IN THE
            TIBETAN DIALECTS OF LENDE (KYIRONG)
            Brigitte Huber, University of Berne

* * * * * *
12:00-2:00        LUNCH
* * * * * *

FRIDAY AFTERNOON:

2:00-2:30   THE CULTURAL ASPECTS OF BORROWING "CULTURE":
            CIRCULATION OF "SAMKRTI" IN BHAKTAPUR, NEPAL
            Gregory Price Grieve, University of Chicago

2:30-3:00   PATTERNINGS OF VOCALIC SEQUENCES: EVIDENCE FROM
            TIBETO-BURMAN LANGUAGES
            Kathy L. Sands, University of California at
            Santa Barbara

3:00-3:30   AN ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF TONE IN MANANGE
            Kristine A. Hildebrandt, University of
            California at Santa Barbara

3:30-4:00   COMPARATIVE PHONOLOGY OF MANCHAD AND BUNAN
            Suhnu Ram Sharma, Deccan College, Pune and
            Himalayan Language Project, Leiden

* * * * * *
4-4:30         COFFEE BREAK
* * * * * *

4:30-6    WORKSHOP /TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED/
          Ian Maddieson, University of California in
          Los Angeles


           SATURDAY, JUNE 17
SATURDAY MORNING:

8:00-8:30  ON FINITE CLAUSES IN KINNAURI NARRATIVES
           Anju Saxena, Uppsala University

8:30-9:00  INDEXICAL CATEGORIES IN KHAM AND CENTRAL TIBETAN
           Krisadawan Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University

9:00-9:30  ON TAMANGIC IMPERATIVES
           Isao Honda, Nagoya College

9:30-10:00 HONORIFICS IN BARAGAUNLE
           Mary Brehm, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

* * * * * *
10:00-10:30       COFFEE BREAK
* * * * * *

10:30-11:00 INFLECTIONAL TENSE CATEGORIES IN DOLAKH. NEW.R
            Carol Genetti, University of California at
            Santa Barbara

11:00-11:30 TYPES OF VERBS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE CAUSATIVE
            SUFFIX -K IN NEWARI
            Kazuyuki Kiryu, Mimasaka Women's College

11:30-12:00 A UNIFIED ACCOUNT OF NEPALI VERB INFLECTION
            Gilles Boyi, University of Paris 7

* * * * * *
12:00-2:00        LUNCH
* * * * * *

SATURDAY AFTERNOON:

2:00-2:30  /TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED/
           Werner Winter, University of Kiel

2:30-3:00  THE TIBETAN TRANSLATION OF THE PANINI-SUTRA: A
           STUDY
           Narendra Kumar Dash, Visva-Bharati University

3:00-3:30  THE FOCUSING FUNCTIONS OF "YIN" AND "YV" IN
           IMIGRI DOKPA TIBETAN
           Nancy J. Caplow, University

3:30-4:00  THE GONGDUK LANGUAGE OF CENTRAL BHUTAN
           George van Driem, Himalayan Language Project,
           Leiden
* * * * * *
4:00-4:30         COFFEE BREAK
* * * * * *

4:30-6:00   WORKSHOP /TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED/
            Matthew Dryer, State University of New York in
            Buffalo





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                         Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics
                         University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
                         Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
                         USA

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