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Directory         1.     Sandhya Sundaresan , Finiteness in South Asian Languages Message 1: Finiteness in South Asian Languages Date: 15-May-2011 From: Sandhya Sundaresan <fisal2011hsl.uit.no> Subject: Finiteness in South Asian Languages E-mail this message to a friend Finiteness in South Asian Languages Short Title: FiSAL Date: 09-Jun-2011 - 10-Jun-2011 Location: Tromsø, Norway Contact: Sandhya Sundaresan Contact Email: fisal2011hsl.uit.no Meeting URL: http://castl.uit.no/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=199:-finiteness-in-south-asian-languages-&catid=76:conferencesaworkshops Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax Language Family(ies): Dravidian; Indo-Aryan; Munda; Tibeto-Burman Meeting Description: Finiteness is a topic that influences and interacts with virtually every syntactic and interface property in linguistics. It deals directly with the core functional properties of a clause such as its tense, aspect and mood and with the way in which these are anchored to the outside world (anaphorically, deictically or somewhere in-between). In addition, finiteness also affects, directly or in more mediated fashion, nominal reference within a clause particularly as it pertains to the syntactic subject. Thus, issues such as the morpho-phonological (c)overtness of a subject, its case/Case and degree of syntactic-semantic anaphoricity could be seen as a function of the finiteness of the clause as a whole. South Asian languages offer fertile ground for investigation in the realm of finiteness because, as is becoming increasingly well-known, they exhibit properties that challenge much conventional wisdom on the subject. Complex predication in Bangla (Ramchand 2008 and prior), long-distance agreement (Bhatt 2005) and correlative constructions (Dayal 1991) in Hindi/Urdu, topic, focus and scrambling (Mahajan 1999, Kidwai 2000) and diachronic aspect shifts (Condoravdi and Deo 2008) in Indo-Aryan, nominative anaphors in Dravidian (Amritavalli 1984, Woolford 1999, Lidz 2004), Dravidian hybrid nominalizations with both tense and Case marking (Amritavalli and Jayaseelan 2005), serial verb constuctions in Malayalam (Jayaseelan 2004), and overt nominative, nonfinite subjects in Sinhala (Gair 2005) and Dravidian (K.P. Mohanan 1982) are only some of the challenging phenomena discussed previously. Yet, this only scratches the surface -- many languages of the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and other families in South Asia remain under-researched and under-publicized to this day. It is the goal of this conference to bridge this gap in empirical and theoretical coverage of these phenomena. Keynote Talks: There will be 4 invited talks, each followed by a prepared response by an invited discussant. Rajesh Bhatt, U. Mass., Amherst; Discussant: Miriam Butt, Konstanz Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers; Discussant: Gillian Ramchand, Tromsø Ashwini Deo, Yale; Discussant: Thomas McFadden, Tromsø K.A. Jayaseelan, EFLU, Hyderabad; Discussant: Sandhya Sundaresan, Tromsø/Stuttgart Finiteness in South Asian Languages, Tromsø: Program FiSAL Program URL (with links to PDF abstracts): http://castl.uit.no/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=214 Thursday, June 9, 2011 8:45-9:00 Welcome 9:00-9:50 Invited speaker: K.A. Jayaseelan, EFLU, Hyderabad, India 9:50-10:10 Discussant: Sandhya Sundaresan, CASTL (Tromsø)/Stuttgart 10:10-10:25 General discussion 10:25-10:45 Coffee break 10:45-11:25 'What Finiteness Predicts in Chintang' Robert Schikowski, University of Leipzig, Germany 11:25-12:05 'Non-finite Complements and Modality in Hindi-Urdu 'deenaa' 'allow'. Alice Davison, University of Iowa, USA 12:05-13:35 Lunch 13:35-14:15 'Participial Clauses in Bangla: An Alternative Account' Priyanka Biswas, University of Southern California, USA 14:15-14:55 'Evidence for 'Finiteness' in Telugu' Madelyn Kissock, Concordia University, Canada 14:55-15:35 'Revisiting Infinitives: The Need for Tense in Malayalam' Mythili Menon, University of Southern California, USA 15:35-16:05 Coffee break 16:05-16:55 Invited speaker: Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers University, USA 16:55-17:15 Discussant: Gillian Ramchand, CASTL (Tromsø) 17:15-17:30 General discussion Friday, June 10, 2011 9:00-9:50 Invited speaker: Ashwini Deo, Yale University, USA 9:50-10:10 Discussant: Thomas McFadden, Tromsø 10:10-10:25 General discussion 10:25-10:45 Coffee break 10:45-11:25 'Finiteness and Reduplication in Dravidian' Rahul Balusu, EFLU, Hyderabad, India 11:25-12:05 'The Extended Verbal Projections of Malayalam' Ophira Gamliel, Hebrew University, Israel 12:05-13:35 Lunch 13:35-14:15 'Finiteness, Negation, and the Directionality of Headedness in Bangla' Andrew Simpson and Saurov Syed, University of Southern California, USA. 14:15-14:55 'From Poster-child to Enfant Terrible: Finite Relativization in Dravidian and Indo-Aryan' Hans Henrich Hock, University of Illinois, USA 14:55-15:35 'Optionality and Non-optionality in Hindi/Urdu Long-distance Agreement' Stefan Keine, University of Leipzig, Germany 15:35-16:05 Coffee break 16:05-16:55 Invited speaker: Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA 16:55-17:15 Discussant: Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz 17:15-17:30 General discussion 17:40-18:00 Business Meeting Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 23-May-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.