SALA Program
Tej Bhatia
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VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
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>From: rajesh kumar <rkumar1 at students.uiuc.edu>
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>Subject: SALA Program [South Asian Language Analysis]
University of Illinois, Urabana, Illinois.
July 9-11, 99
>Poor formatting quality is regretted.
>
>TENTATIVE PROGRAM
>
>Department of Linguistics at
>The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>celebrates the 20th Anniversary of
>South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable
>
>SALA 2000: PRIORITIES AND DIRECTIONS
>
>July 9-11, 1999
>(Illini Union, 1401 West Green Street)
>
>
>July 9, 1999 Welcoming remarks
> Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
> Chair, SALA Committee
>
> Head, Department of Linguistics
> University of Illnois at Urbana-Champaign
>
> Earl D. Kellogg,
> Associate Provost for International Affairs
> University of Illnois at Urbana-Champaign
>
> Hans Henrich Hock
> Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics and
> Director,
> Program in South Asia and Middle Eastern Studies
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>5.30-630 Onsite Reception and Registration
>
>6.30-8.00 DINNER BREAK
>
>8.00-9.00 Keynote Address
> (Room 210, Illini Union General Lounge)
> Chair: Rajeshwari Pandharipande, University of
>Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> George Cardona, University ofPennsylvania,
> Philadelphia
> The tense system of Indo Aryan over time
> July 10, 1999
>
>8.00-9.00 SPECIAL LECTURE
> (Room 210, Illini Union General Lounge)
> Chair: S. N. Sridhar, State University of New York
> at Stony Brook
> K.V. Subbarao, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
> Agreement in South Asian Languages: Form and
>Function
>
>
>9.00-10.45 Phonetics/Phonology I
> (Room 404 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Jennifer Cole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>9.00-9.25 Yasuko Suzuki, University of Illinois at Urbana-
> Champaign
> Consonant Cluster Changes in Pali : Toward
> Restricting the Phonological Patterns
>
>9.25-9.50 James D. Harnsberger, Indiana University
> The Role of Metrical Structure in Hindi Intonation
>
>9.50-10.15 Pradeep Dhillon, University of Illinois at Urbana-
>Champaign
> Following rulesin context: A case in Punjabi Tone
>
>10.15-10.40 Ravinder Gargesh, University of Delhi
> Tone in Punjabi and VernerUs Law Revisited
>
>
>9.00-10.45 Linguistic Theory and South Asian languages I
> (Room 405 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Alice Davison, University of Iowa
>
>9.00-9.25 Rakesh Bhatt, University of South Carolina
> V2 syntax: problems and possibilities
>
>9.25-9.50 Tanmoy Bhattacharya, University College, London
> Nominal Aspect and NP Movement
>
>9.50-10.15 Kapil Kapoor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,
>India
> PaniniUs Ashtadhyayi as Proto South-Asian Grammar
>
>10.15-10.40 Shravan Vasishth, Ohio State University
> Hindi word order and negation : a lexical account
>
>9.00-10.45 Teaching South Asian Languages in the US: New
> Visions and Challenges
> (Room 210 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Mithilesh Kumar Mishra, University of Chicago
>
> Mithilesh Kumar Mishra, University of Chicago
> Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande, University of Illinois at
> Urbana- Champaign
> Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University, New York
> Y. P. Tiwari, Government College, Shahdol, India
>
>9.00-10.45 Minority Languages I
> (Room 406 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Anvita Abbi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
>
>9.00-925 Balthasar Bickel, University of California at Berkeley
> Deixis, landscape and identities in Belhara
> (Eastern Nepal)
>
>9.25-9.50 Shobhana Chelliah, University of North Texas
> Language Contact and Grammaticalization in South
> and Southeast Asia
>
>9.50-10.15 Michael Noonan, Mary Brehm, Karen Grunow-Harsta, Holly
> Smith, Cassandra Stephens, University of Wisconsin
> Recent Language Contact in the Nepal Himalaya
>
>10.15-10.30 Break
>
>9.00-10.45 Minority Languages II
> (Room 406 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Balthasar Bickel, University of California at Berkeley
>
>10.30-10.55 Norman Zide, University of Chicago
> Noun Formation in Munda and the Branching of the
> south Munda languages
>
>10.55-11.20 Claus Peter Zoller, University of Heidelberg
> Distinctive Stress Accents and Breathiness in
> Indus Kohistani
>
>
>10.45-11.00 BREAK
>
>11.00-12.30 Phonetics/Phonology II
> (Room 406 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Tosiki Osada, International Research Center, Japan
>
>11.00-11.25 Indranil Dutta, University of Illinois at Urbana-
> Champaign
> Sentential intonation: Preverbal or final in SOV
> Bengali
>
>11.25-11.50 Lucy Pickering and Caroline Wiltshire, University of
> Florida
> The Prosody of Indian English TAsU Teaching
> Discourse
>
>11.50-12.15 Kalika Bali, University of South Pacific, Fiji
> Spectral Difference in the Production of Voiced
> Aspirate in Plosives in Hindi for Male and Female
> Speaker
>
>
>11.30-12.30 SPECIAL LECTURE
> (Room 210 Illini Union, General Launge)
> Chair: Hans Henrich Hock, Univeristy of Illinois
> at Urbana-Champaign
> Boris Zakharyin, Moscow State University,
>Moscow, Russia
> Main trends in the study of South Asian languages,
> linguistics and literature
>
>
>12.30-2.00 LUNCH BREAK
>
>
>2.00-3.45 Linguistic Theory and South Asian languages II
> (Room 404 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Peter E Hook, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
>
>2.00-2.25 Susan Blair Das, University of Pennsylvania
> Variation in the Present Indicative Auxiliary of
> Banarasi Bhojpuri
>
>2.25-2.50 Chanchal Singh Kamboj, Punjabi University, Patiala
> Dynamics of Negation in Punjabi
>
>2.50-3.15 Rajashekharan Nair, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar
> Dravidian Syntax and SOV Structure
>
>3.15-3.40 P Madhavan, CIEFL, Hyderabad
> Using Thidden syntaxU in verb classification: A
>case study
>2.00-3.45 Language of Religion
> (Room 405 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Kapil Kapoor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
>
>
>2.00-2.25 Gabriella Nik IIieva, New York University
> An Attempt of the Pragmatic Analysis of the Vedic
> Hymns
>
>2.25-2.50 Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande, University of Illinois at
> Urbana- Champaign
> Metaphors as markers of language change: Religious
> discourse in Jnaneswari
>
>2.50-3.15 Yamuna Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> Kabir and Language of Spirituality
>
>3.15-3.40 S N Sridhar, State University of New York at Stony Brook
> Breaking the Language Barrier: The vi:r6:>iv6
> prose lyrics in Kannada
>
>3.45-4.00 Break
>
>
>4.00-5.30 English in South Asia
> (Room 405 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Kamal Sridhar, State University of New York at Stony Brook
>
>4.00-4.25 Girish Jha and Jerry L. Morgan, University of Illinois at
> Urbana-Champaign
> English SQL Interface for Databases
>
>4.25-4.50 Cecil Nelson, Indiana State University
> South Asian English Creativity and Creators:
> Re-thinking the Paradigms of
> Intelligibility and Comprehensibility
>
>4.50-5.15 Kamal Sridhar, State University of New York at Stony Brook
> Requesting Strategies in Indian English
>
>
>4.00-5.45 Linguistic Theory and South Asian languages III
> (Room 404 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: George Cardona, University of Pennsylvania
>
>4.00-4.25 Toshiki Osada, International Research Center, Japan
> Theory and Data in Linguistics: In the case of
> South Asian Linguistics: Towards an
> Adequate Description of Munda languages
>
>4.25-4.50 Hari Prasad, CIEFL, Hyderabad
> Emphatic Pronouns in Telugu
>
>4.50-5.15 Tapas S. Ray, CIEFL, Hyderabad
> Null Objects in Oriya
>
>5.15-5.40 Tista Bagchi and Anil Kumar Thakur, University of Delhi
> The Hindi DP in Search of a Head: Evidence from
>Case and Agreement
>
>
>4.00-5.45 South Asian Historical Linguistics
> (Room 406 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Boris Zakharyin, Moscow State University, Russia
>
>4.00-4.25 Hans H. Hock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> Notes on the dialectology of South Asian
>convergence
>
>4.25-4.50 Chanchal Singh Kamboj, Punjabi University, Patiala
> Functional View of Vibhaktis in Punjabi
>
>4.50-5.15 Indira Y. Junghare, University of Minnesota
> Syntactic Borrowing and Language Change
>
>5.15-5.40 M J Warsi, Aligarh Muslim University
> Morphosyntactic Studies in Urdu: A historical
> perspective
>
>
>7.00-8.00 Keynote Address
> (210 Illini Union General Lounge)
> Chair: Braj B. Kachru, University of Illinois at
> Urbana-Champaign
> Professor R. E. Asher, University of Edinburgh
> Person number and gender in Dravidian Predicates
>
>
>8.30-11.00 Reception at the residence of
> Hans Henrich Hock
> Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics and
>Director,
> Program for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>Address (703 South Prairie, Champaign)
>
>
>July 11, 1999
>8.00-9.00 SPECIAL LECTURE
> (Room 210 Illini Union)
> Chair: Yamuna Kachru, University of Illinois at
> Urabana-Champaign
> Anvita Abbi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
> Delhi, India
> The Languages of Minority Communities: Issues and
> Perspectives
>
>
>9.00-10.45 Communicating Social Identities through
> Language in South Asia
> (Room 404 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Tamara Valentine, University of South Carolina, Spartanburg
>
>9.00-9.25 Susan Frenck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> English in constructing gay identities in South
> Asia: A research agenda
>
>9.25-9.50 Ravi Prasad, University of Minnesota and R.S. Gupta,
> Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
> Language, Ethnicity and Caste: A Study of the
> Language Dynamics in Hazaribagh
>
>9.50-10.15 Tamara Valentine, University of South Carolina,
> Spartanburg
> Gender Identities in South Asian Context
>
>10.15-10.40 R S Gupta and Uday Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
> New Delhi, India
> Sociolinguistics of Pronominals in Languages of
> Bihar
>
>
>9.00-10.45 Communicative Content and Grammar based
> instruction of Tamil with multimedia software
> and world wide web
> (Room 405 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Krishnamurthy Karunakaran, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
>
>9.00-9.25 Krishnamurthy Karunakaran, University of Michigan, Ann
>Arbor
> Role of Grammar in the preparation of Teaching
> Materials for Tamil Teaching based on the
> Communicative Approach
>
>9.25-9.50 S. Radhakrishnan, University of Texas at Austin
> Communicative Content and Grammar Based
> Instruction of Tamil with Multimedia Software and world
> wide web
>
>9.50-10.15 Vasu Renganathan, University of Pennsylvania
> Communicative, Content and Grammar based
> Instruction of Tamil: Instructional Software
> Materials (Multimedia)
>
>10.15-10.40 Krishnamurthy Karunakaran, University of Michigan, Ann
> Arbor
> Tamil-English/English-Tamil Electronic Pedagogical
> Dictionary
>
>9.00-10.45 General Session
> (Room 406 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Rajesh Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>9.00-9.25 Peter E. Hook, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
> The Hindi Compound Verbs and the Constitution of
>India.
>
>9.25-9.50 Mukul Priyadarshan and Madhu Gurtu, University of Delhi
> LexicographerUs Dilemma: The Story Reads Well
>
>9.50-10.15 Vipin Srivastava, Prachi Chaturvedi and Gautam Sengupta,
>University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
> On economical storage of words in mental lexicon
>
>10.45-11.00 BREAK
>
>11.00-12.30
>Special Features : A panel discussion on
>
> South Asian languages: Priorities and Directions
> (Room 210 Illini Union, General Lounge)
> Panel introduction by Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande (UIUC)
>
>Chair & Moderator: Braj B. Kachru, University of Illinois at
>Urbana-Champaign
>
>R. E. Asher, University of Edinburgh, UK
>James W. Gair, Cornell University
>Michael C. Shapiro, University of Washington at Seattle
>Manindra Verma, University of Wisconsin at Madison
>Boris Zakharyin, Moscow State University, Russia
>
>12.30-2.00 LUNCH BREAK
>
>2.00-3.45 Agreement in South Asian languages
> (Room 404 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: K V Subbarao, University of Delhi
>
>2.00-2.25 Balthasar Bickel, University of California at Berkley
> Grammatical Relations, Configurational Syntax and
> Genetic Stability in South Asia
>
>2.25-2.50 Alice L. Davison, University of Iowa
> V2/V-final: a comparison of the CP and TP
> projections in Hindi-Urdu and Kashmiri
>
>2.50-3.15 Rajesh Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> and K.V. Subbarao, University of Delhi,
> Postposition Incorporation and Internally Headed
> Relative Clauses in Hmar
>
>3.15-3.40 Peter E. Hook, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
> Eastern Shina and Ergative as Agreement
>
>2.00-3.45 South Asian Languages and Language Acquisition
> (Room 405 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Professor James Gair, Cornell University
>
>
>2.00-2.25 Tej K Bhatia and William C Ritchie, Syracuse University,
> New York
> Hindi-English Code-Switching and Second Language
> Acquisition:Some Preliminary Findings
>
>2.25-2.50 A. Usha Rani, Osmania University, Hyderabad
> Productivity of Dative in Telugu ChildrenUs Speech
>
>2.50-3.15 Bhuvana Narshimhan, Nancy Budwig and Nandita Chaudhary,
> Bell Laboratoris, New Jersy
> Imperative constructions in Hindi caregiver-child
>interactions
>
>
>2.00-3.45 Sociolinguistics of South Asian languages
> (Room 406 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Usha Desai, University of Durban, South Africa
> Indranil Dutta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>2.00-2.25 V. D. Singh, CIEFL,Hyderabad
> Language and Media Discourse
>
>2.25-2.50 V. Swarajya Lakshmi, Osmania University, Hyderabad
> Language issues in Telugu in the context of
> Multi-dialectal situation
>
>2.50-3.15 Sunita Singh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> Proverbs in Hindi: A Cultural Overview
>
>3.45-4.00 Break
>
>4.00-5.15 Agreement in South Asian languages
> (Room 404 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Rakesh Bhatt, University of South Carolina
>
>4.00-4.25 P J Mistry, California State University, Fresno
> Split Agreement in Gujarati: Some implications
>
>4.25-4.50 A. Usha Rani, Osmania University, Hyderabad
> Agreement in Telugu BrocaUs aphasics
>
>4.50-5.15 Boris Zakharyin, Moscow State University, Russia
> PaniniUs Grammatical Mechanism as applied to NIA
>Syntax
>4.00-5.15 South Asian Languages and Language Acquisition
> (Room 405 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Professor Tej K Bhatia, Syracuse University, New York
>4.00-4.25 Shamitha Somashekar, Nuance Communications, James Gair,
> Cornell University, Claire Foley, Morehead State University
> and Barbara Lust, Cornell University
> Relative Transparency from a Cross-linguistic
> Perspective: Evidence from Acquisition of Tulu and
> other Languages
>
>4.25-4.50 Usha Lakshmanan, Southern Illinois University
> The acquisition of relative clauses by Tamil
>children
>
>4.50-5.15 D. Vasanta Osmania University, Hyderabad
> Comprehension of Telugu Compound Nouns: A
> Developmental Study
>
>4.00-5.15 Sociolinguistics of South Asian languages
> (Room 406 Illini Union)
>
>Chair: Sunita Singh, University of Illinois
>
>4.00-4.25 Rajesh Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> and Chander Mohan Aima, University of Delhi.
> Is Maithili in danger?
>
>4.25-4.50 Usha Desai, University of Durban, South Africa
> The Effect of the Group Areas Act on the Gujarati
> Language in South Africa
>
>
>
>Announcement
>
>Friends,
>
> At this point, we are planning to have an informal session of
>RPoetry readingS on the 11th July (evening) after dinner at the
>PANDHARIPANDE RESIDENCE.
>
>Please let us know in a couple of weeks whether you will be interested in
>reading your own or other poetUs poems at the session. We expect you to
>participate in the informal gathering even if you are not reading a poem.
>
>Exact derails will be available with the final program.
>
>Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
>
>
>__
>Rajesh
>
>
Tej K. Bhatia
Professor of Linguistics
Chancellor's Exceptional Academic Exellence Professor
312 HBC, Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-1160
email: tkbhatia at mailbox.syr.edu
Tel: 315-443-5374 (off.)
Fax: 315-443-5376
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