Yale Linguistics hosting FASAL 5 this weekend
April 11, 2015
Today and tomorrow, April 11-12, 2015, the Yale Linguistics Department is hosting the fifth Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages workshop (FASAL 5), organized by Associate Professor Ashwini Deo. This conference brings together linguists researching South Asian languages from the perspective of formal theories of morphology/syntax and semantics/pragmatics.
Venue: Room 203, Luce Hall 34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT 06511
| Sat 04/11 | 845-915 | Registration & breakfast |
| 915-930 | Opening remarks (Robert Frank) |
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| 930-1030 | Jeffrey Lidz (Maryland) Inside the Language Acquisition Device: Insights from Kannada |
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| 1030-1100 | Troy Messick (UConn) Pronoun-agreement mismatches in Telugu |
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| 1100-1120 | Coffee break | |
| 1120-1150 | Itamar Francez (UC) & Andrew Koontz-Garboden (Manchester) The locus of variation: A case study from Malayalam property concept constructions |
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| 1150-1220 | Mythili Menon (USC) & Roumyana Pancheva (USC) Decomposing color expressions in Malayalam |
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| 1230-100 | Poster presentations | |
| 100-230 | Lunch + Poster session 1 | |
| 230-300 | Sakshi Bhatia (UMass) Causation in Hindi-Urdu: Agents and Subjects |
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| 300-330 | Vera Zu (NYU) Binding and shifting in Kathmandu Newari |
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| 330-400 | Coffee Break | |
| 400-430 | Sandhya Sundaresan (Leipzig) Different routes to reflexivity: voice vs. perspective |
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| 430-500 | Nagaraja Selvanathan (Rutgers) Reflexive connectivity, reconstruction and the interpretation of chains in Tamil |
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| 500-530 | Rahul Balusu (EFLU) Sluicing in Dravidian: Tracing the source |
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| 600- | Dinner in Luce Hall | |
| Sun 04/12 | 900-930 | Breakfast |
| 930-1030 | John Beavers (UT Austin) Anticausatives in Sinhala: A view to the Middle |
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| 1030-1100 | Andrew Simpson (USC) & Priyanka Biswas (USC) Bare nominals, classifiers, and the representation of definiteness in Bangla |
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| 1100-1120 | Coffee break | |
| 1120-1150 | Sonja Eisenbiss (Essex), Ayesha Kidwai & Benu Pareek (JNU) Verb agreement in Hindi and its acquisition |
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| 1150-1220 | Rajesh Bhatt (UMass) & Vincent Homer (UMass) PPIs and movement in Hindi-Urdu |
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| 1220-145 | Lunch | |
| 145-215 | Arunima Choudhury (USC) & Elsi Kaiser (USC) Interaction between prosody and syntactic position: evidence from focus types in Bangla |
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| 215-245 | Vandana Bajaj (Rutgers) & Kristen Syrett (Rutgers) Admitting -hii to the exclusive club |
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| 245-300 | Coffee break | |
| 300-330 | Paul Kiparsky (Stanford) The agent suffixes as a window into Vedic grammar |
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| 330-400 | Business meeting |