Schedule
Day 1 (21 February 2024)
8:30-9:30 AM Breakfast
9:00- 10:00 AM Registration
10:00-11:00 AM Inauguration
11:00-11:30 AM High Tea
11:30 AM-1:00 PM Keynote Lecture 1 Prof. Anvita Abbi- Voices of India: Our Pride and Prejudices
1:00- 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30- 4:00 PM Panel Discussion Panelists: Samir Singh , Garjan Malik , Sanchita Toto Mother Tongue(s) in the Age of Multilingualism: A Modern Dialogue
Panelists: Dr. Paroma Sanyal, Dr. Pawan Goyal, Dr. Ritesh Kumar
Moderator: Anindita Choudhury
4:00 PM- 5:30 PM Session 1 Debrani Swargiary A Descriptive Study of Endangered Tai Languages of Assam
Language Endangerment Jyoti Sharma A syntactic account of prominence hierarchy in agreement marking in Limbu
Chair : Prof. Anvita Abbi Rita Saha Kinship Terminology in Tai Phake : An Endangered Language of Assam
Sumedha Gupta Looking into an Endangered language from a ‘Heritage Language’ perspective
6:00 PM- 7.30 PM Cultural Programme- Epiphany
7:30 PM-9:00 PM Dinner
Day 2 (22 February 2024)
8:30 AM-9:30 AM Breakfast
9:30 AM-10:30 AM Keynote Lecture 2 Prof. Tanmoy Bhattacharya- "Agree as Labelling: Revisiting Santali Clitics"
10:30 AM- 12:00 NOON Session 2 Akshay Raj The argument structure alternation in the grammatical voice patterns of Ahirwati
Structural Linguistics Jayakrishnan Subramony The Processing of Relative Clauses in Malayalam
Chair : Ritu Santh Niveditha Varma, Sahil Patel Combinatorial Restrictions of Light Verb Constructions in Hindi
Sakshi Upadhyay, Sobiya Qureshi A Minimalist Account of Double-Dative Constructions in Dakkhini
12:00 PM- 12:15 PM Tea
12:15 PM- 1:30 PM Session 3
Sociolinguistics Shirsankar Basu Language and Abjection: Enunciating South-Asian Queer Linguistic Practices
Chair: Abhijith N Arjunan Shubhra An Analysis of WhatsApp Interactions Among Youth: A Case of Language Attrition
Yunus Karuthedath Language and Khutuba: Debates Over Code-Switching to Vernacular in 1960s among Kerala Muslims
1:30 PM- 2:00 PM Adam Matthew- Primary Source Digital Archives: A Session by Sage
2:00 PM-3:00 PM Lunch
3:00 PM- 4:30 PM Session 4 Hemangini Not ‘et cetera’ - Gujarati non-prototypical echo formations
Morphology Indrani Gogoi Disyllabic Word Minimum in Kamrupi Dialect of Assam
Chair: Prof Tanmoy Bhattacharya Pratikshya Guru Coda licensing: a comparative study in Sambalpuri and Odia
Ankita Singh, Suraj Kumar Comparative analysis of Reduplication process in Magahi in Bihar vs Bhojpuri in Varanasi
4:30- 5:00 PM Poster Presentations and Tea
Najima Begum An Analysis of Code Switching and Code Mixing as Found in Assamese Television Advertisements
Priyanka Das The Quest for Preserving Tiwa Language within the Traditional Media of Assam and Meghalaya: A Sociolinguistic Study
Sayantika Das and Shankha Sanyal Do emojis influence the emotions in digital communication? A human response study on Bangla language
Shyam Ratan, Sonal Sinha Propaganda in Hindi Newspapers and Periodicals: A Comparative Study of Indian Media Outlets
5:00- 6:30 PM Session 5 Anjana K Translation Issues with Thottam Pattu: The Song of a Ritual Art
Translation, Discourse Analysis and Language Acquisition Agniv Dutta Categorization and Metaphysics of ‘Noun’: A Study of the Grammatical Texts of Raja Rammohan Roy and Loharam Shiroratna
Chair: Lekshmi R Dipabali Sengupta, Sumedha Gupta What walls of Jadavpur University speaks: A pragmatic analysis
Shreya Dutta Bengali ESL learners' acquisition of complex prepositions
6:30- 7:30 PM General Body Meeting
Day 3 (23 February 2024)
8:30-9:30 AM Breakfast
9:30-10:30 AM Keynote Lecture 3 Dr. Paroma Sanyal- Articulating unwritten vowels in SALs
10:30- 11:15 AM Session 6 Hritwick Chakraborty Development of /c/ Sound in Bangla: An Optimality Theory Analysis
Phonetics and Phonology Niharika Kumari Morphophonemic Alternations in Angika
Chair: Dr Paroma Sanyal
11:15 AM- 11.45 AM Poster Presentations and Tea Ratul Ghosh A proposed survey-based study of levels of attainment of learning outcomes with respect to medium of instruction for effective mathematics and language teaching in multilingual classrooms in West Bengal
Saifullah Samar Role of Footnotes in translating Premchand’s “Kafan” as “The Shroud”
Sayantika Das Kolkata’s Kinetic Kinnars: A pilot study on the various communicative aspects of the endangered Farsi Hijra language
Shrija Tiwari Love Metaphors in Post-Millenium Songs of Gulzar
11:45 AM- 1:15 PM Session 7 Aditi Agarwal Evaluation of Machine Translation
Computational Linguistics Eshani Baishya Viewing Sluicing in Assamese through the Phase
Chair: Dr. Ritesh Kumar Mouma Banik The phasal status of Bangla ECM clauses
Mudafia Zafar Word Order Induced Differential Verb Planning in Language Production: Evidence from Hindi
1:15- 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30- 4:30 PM Workshop- Linguistic Data Management and Processing
4:30- 5:30 PM Valedictory and High Tea