13th International Conference of South Asian Languages and Literatures

(ICOSAL-13)
Organised by

Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru

&
Indian Institute of Language Studies, Delhi

Program Schedule
Dates: January 08-10, 2018
Venue: Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru

Inaugural, Plenary and Closing Sessions will be at the Conference Hall

Papers are distributed in Parallel Sessions as follows:

A Conference Hall (Second Floor)

B Committee Hall # 1 (Second Floor)
C Committee Hall # 2 (First Floor)
D LDC-IL Conference Hall (Second Floor)
E Preview Theatre (Basement)
* Session 1A will be in honour of Alice Davison and James Gair
DAY 1 8 January 2018

09.00-10.00 Registration
Inaugural Session
10:00 - Invocation
10:05 - Welcome speech
Dr. L. Ramamoorthy
Joint-Organising Secretary, ICOSAL-13
10:15 - Lighting of Lamp
10:25 - Introduction to ICOSAL
Prof. Omkar N. Koul
Chairperson, IILS, Delhi
10:35 - Remarks by the Guest of Honour
10.00-11:20 Prof. Boris A. Zakharyin
Moscow State University, Russia
10:45 - Inaugural Address
Padmabhushan
Prof. Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad
Member, Kendriya Hindi Samiti
11:00 - Presidential Address
Prof. D.G. Rao
Director, CIIL, Mysuru
11:10 - Vote of Thanks
Prof. Umarani Pappuswamy
Organising Secretary, ICOSAL-13
11:20-11:40 TEA BREAK
Keynote Address:
Chair: Tanka B. Subba
11:40-12:25 D.G. Rao Former Vice-Chancellor, Sikkim University, Sikkim.

Sustaining cultural and linguistic diversity in South Asia: Some Suggestions from Anthropological Perspectives
12:25-12:30 BREAK FOR PARALLEL SESSIONS
DAY 1 8 January 2018
12:30-13:30 Session 1
1A 1B 1C 1D 1E
Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair:
Liudmila Khokhlova Jawaharlal L. Handoo Ranjit Singh Rangila Raj Nath Bhat Saratchandran Nair
Tanmoy Bhattacharya Sunny Soni Sudheer Bhan & Sakshi Kalra Sunil Handique &
Arya Manoharan Swapnarani Bora
Hindi Participial Socio-Pragmatics of Foot Structure of Gaddi
Agreement "Bhosadi Ke" in Kashika Code mixing and code Significance of Bound Root
12:30-12:50
Language switching in successive - in Khamti Morphology
Bilingual (Telugu+English)
Children
A. Rajamanickam Fadhl Qutaish & Pallav Vishnu Mandira Sana Satarupa Sen
V. Thiruvalluvan Basumatary
The subordinating Use of Local Dialects in the Reduplication in Sylheti:
Conjunctions in Modern Pragmatic Deficit in Advertising World to attract Hiatus Resolution in Bodo An Optimality Theory
12:50-13:10 Tamil - A grammatical Yemeni Arabic-Speaking the General Mass Analysis
study Children with Specific
Language Impairment

K. Srikumar Ringu Ann Baby Hilal Ahmad Dar & V. Ramamoorthy Rhythm Chauhan &
Zahid Bashir Lone Mona Parakh
Transitivity Alternations Exhaustiveness effect in Symbols of Tamil
with the Verbalizer Malayalam: Implicature Language Attitude and language A Preliminary Study of
13:10-13:30
Petuka in Malayalam or truth conditional? identity Among Tibetan Personal Pronouns in
people living in Kashmir: A Mewari
Sociolinguistic Study

13:30-14:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30-15:50 Session 2
2A 2B 2C 2D 2E
Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair:
P. Perumal Samy S. Rajendran N. Nadaraja Pillai L. Ramamoorthy Roop K. Bhat
Ramesh Kumar Salman Alam & Uma Maheshwara Rao Yogesh Umale Samhita Bharadwaj
Kuramboyina Moukthika Yerramilli Indian Languages, their Tree-bank Annotation for Honorificity in Assamese
Expressive in What Language is your
contribution to Indian Marathi
14:30-14:50 Bondo/Remo and next word in?
Telugu: Lexical fields Economy and their
and Sense Relations Relevance as Medium of
Instruction
Tungdim Philip Subrat K. Prusty & Seetha Lakshmi & Nanthini Pitambar Behera Moumita Dey
Thanglienmang B.N. Dash Arivuselvan Stanford Universal Typed Identifying the Semantic-
Origin and Development Discourse in Tamil
14:50-15:10 Survey of Kuki-Chin Dependency Relationships Categorial Features of
of Indian Scripts: A Classrooms
linguistic classifications for Parsing Hindi Texts Vectors in Kokborok
Positional Study
with reference to the Zo based on Tesni`ere’s
language Dependency Framework

Jyoti Sharma C. Shylin Theporal. S & Anju. B Sampada Deshpande

ə~ɑ alternation in the Psychological study on Sundarsingh Joseph Challenges and Issues in Study of Evidentiality in
Mara agreement Child and adult's CLIL-integrated classroom developing a Gujarati
15:10-15:30 perspective through
(pronominal) markers strategy for effective Morphological Analyzer for
Pranav's Picture by academic-oriented language Malayalam
Nandini Nayar production at secondary level
Ramesh Nanjundan Paroma Sanyal Riophilla Alfred Rajesha.N & Manasa. G G. S. Bansode
Tribal Language Phonological Decolouring the Western All shapes and sizes : Grammatico-Semantic
15:30-15:50 Documentation, Western Faithfulness to pre and Attitude in Teaching English Processing of Multi-Byte Aspects of Deixis in Marathi
Ghats –with reference to post spell-out syntactic as a Second Language in Character Set of Indic
Todas of Nilgiris architecture South Asian Context Scripts -A Kannada Case
Study

15:50-16:05 TEA BREAK

 Karumuri V. Subbarao
Plenary 1
Former Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Delhi, Delhi.
16:05-16:50 Chair:
Boris A. Zakharyin
The Stem 1 and Stem 2 Distinction in Kuki-Chin from a Finiteness Point of View

16:50-17:50 Session 3
3A 3B 3C 3D 3E
Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair:
Omkar N. Koul Abhinav K. Mishra Sundarsingh Joseph Umarani Pappuswamy P.R.D. Fernandez
Saratchandran Nair Anirban Sarkar Roop K. Bhat Praveen Gatla & Y. Sampreetha K
Diminutive Adjectives Conceptualizing Surface Communal harmony in Viswanath Naidu Colour and Conceptualisation in
16:50-17:10 in Malayalam Space in Language Kashmiri Literature: The Developing Dependency the Language of Attappady Palu
Post 1990 scenario Tree Bank for Telugu Parser Kurumba: An Analysis of
Prototype Model
Liudmila Khoklova Manas Jyoti Bora B. Sharmila Babu Ganthoti Nagaraju Rosmin Joseph
Shifts in semantic roles The Construction of Psychological aspects of Issues in Part-of-Speech Malayalam Kinship Terms as
17:10-17:30 marking in Western Abstract Space in women through Anita (POS) tagging of Telugu Terms of Address and
Indo-Aryan languages Assamese Desai's novel "Cry the (EMILLE) Corpus Reference: A Sociolinguistic
peacock" Study
S. Kunjamma Nageswara Rao Anand Krishnan Sagarika Pattnaik & Ashwini Thosar &
Why do Languages Uppuluri Pre-Marital Love In Ajit Kumar Nayak Ajay Sarvaiya
Change? An Enquiry Cognitive Stylistic Ancient Indian Literature: POS Tagging of Odia Comparative Analysis of
17:30-17:50 Analysis to Aravind KuṞuntogai (Tamil), Language using Maximum Animal Proverbs in Marathi and
Adiga’s The White gāthā satta sāi (Prakrit) Entropy and Rule based English
Tiger and caurapañcāśikā Technique
(Sanskrit)

18:00-19:00 CULTURAL PROGRAMME

DAY 2 9 January 2018
9:30-11:10 Session 4
4A 4B 4C 4D 4E
Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair:
Boris A. Zakharyin T.B. Subba Sam Mohan Lal Saratchandran Nair Roop K. Bhat
P. Perumal Samy Jawaharlal L. Handoo Zafeer Hussain Kiani & Paromita Nandy Devashree Trivedi &
Negative Expressions in Folklore and the Discourse Abdul Qadir Khan Sampada Deshpande
Major Phonological
Kisan Mother Tongue: of Power and Oppression Polysemy in Gujarati Postpositions
9:30-9:50 Language Loss Caused by Deviation of Malayalam
An Analysis /t̪ʰi / and /ne/
Socio-Economic Inferiority Retroflex Sound among
Complex: A Case Study of Bengali Diaspora in Kerala
Domaaki
M. Selvadurai Humaira Khan, Irfan Jonali Saikia Arul Dayanand Banuchandar G & Saranya R
Koraga Numerals: A Ul salam & Aadil Kak A Brief study Vowel Duration and Comparison of Animal Metaphors
9:50-10:10 study Didacticism in Pashto Sociolinguistic in Deori Consonant Length in in Idioms of English, Spanish, and
folktales: An Analytical Irula: An Instrumental Tamil - A Cognitive Semantic
Study Approach Approach
Harvinder Negi Ruta Paradkar Albina Narzary Bidisha Kashyap & Krishna Hazarika
Argument alignment in Narratives of diaspora Language Maintenance Jimly Gogoi Conceptual Metaphors in Assamese
10:10-10:30 experience from a male
Kinnauri and Shift among the Segmental Differences in
and female perspective Hajongs of Assam Assamese Dialects
Atanu Saha & Akhila Sara Varughese Mallikarjun Meti Rajeshwari Datta P. M. Girish
Trishita Nandi
Fictional Articulation of Language Ideologies and Syllable Structure: A Embodied Meaning of the
10:30-10:50 A Comparative study Indian Mythology in Multilingualism: Study of Monosyllables in Pronominal System in Malayalam
of Classifiers in Bangla Graphic Novels Discourses of the Loss of Limbu
and Chinese Language
Lulabi Pattanayak Swati Srivastava Rusa Bhowmik Datturam Devune Rajashree Swain
Emerging dynamics in Feature Verification For The position of ‘tumi’ in Medial Cluster Perimeter of Semantic Dimension
10:50-11:10 tribal languages and Sentiment Analysis of Register Formality Scale Formations in Telangana of Compound verb of Kui
literacy: Lessons from Hindi Funny Songs in urban Bengali speakers Telugu Language
Santals
11:10-11:25 TEA BREAK
 Plenary 2 S.N. Sridhar1 & Kamal K. Sridhar2
11:25-12:10 Chair: SUNY Distinguished Service Professor State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA1
Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and Linguistics, Stony Brook University, USA2.
K. Rangan
Superdiversity, Translanguaging and Sociolinguistics of Globalization
12:10-12:15 BREAK FOR PARALLEL SESSIONS
12:15-13:35 Session 5
5A 5B 5C 5D 5E
Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair:
Tanmoy Bhattacharya L. Ramamoorthy G. Prabhakar Uma Maheshwara Rao C.V.Sivaramakrishna
Parul Upadhyay & Kesava Murthy Nusrat Begum Mamata Nayak Dipali Ray & Harimadhab Ray
Shailendra Kumar Address and Reference Advertisement in Urdu A semi-automatic Translating Idiomaticity,
12:15-12:35 Malwi Agreement Terms Distinction in Newspapers approach for establishment Multiword Expressions (MWEs)
Patterns Telugu Kinship of Data-Set in support of and Folk-rhymes
Printed Odia script
Amom Meetei Proma N. Chowdhury & Sasi Kiran R Mallam Bishwa Ranjan Das, Projita Giri
Two Types of Hemanga Dutta What makes a language H.B. Maringanti,
Translation Processes Applied in
nə-marked DPs in Comparative Study of modern? Telugu N.S. Dash & B.N. Dash
12:35-12:55 Subtitles of Belaseshe
Meeteilon Loan Words in Standard language,Print and Transliteration System
Bangla and a South West Vernacular Modernity in from English to Odia by
Bangladeshi Dialect late colonial Andhra Using Encoding Principle
Nivedita Verma Javaid Aziz Bhat Prasannakumar E.M. Sharmin Muzaffar & Pratim Das
12:55-13:15 Complex Predicates in Cultural contact and its Science Reporting in Pitambar Behera
Translating Soviet Children’s
Hindi: An Exoskeletal effect on language use: A Malayalam: A A Qualitative Evaluation
Literature: Imagination, Culture
Approach study of the effect on Conceptual Integration of Google’s Translate:
and Politics
Kashmiri language due to Analysis Comparison of English -
cultural contact Urdu PBSMT and NMT
Systems
Chandrika Baruah Prem Kumar L.R. & Sruthi T Vijayalaxmi F. Patil Levin Jacob
Dual Base Orders of Kishore Kumar L.B. Marxist Influence in Second Language Crossing Borders: Translating
13:15-13:35 Assamese Ditransitives A Descriptive Analysis of Malayalam literary Learning through Corpus Christian Women in 19th Century
Kinship Terms on criticism – Some Travancore, Kerala, India
Saurashtra reflections from Kerala
13:35-14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30-15:30 Session 6
6A 6B 6C 6D 6E
Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair:
M. Balakumar Susheela Thomas Boris A. Zakharyin Ramesh Nanjundan B.N. Dash
Ankita Karmakar Bobita Sarangthem & Rajnath Bhat Srijani Mondal Ankur Jyoti Das &
Sounds of Dirang Lokendro Laishram Number Systems in Indic Tense and Aspect in Birbhum Tusmita Deka
14:30-14:50 Monpa: An Initial Try The manners of Bangla The Allophonic Variations of
Metaphorical expression the Assamese voiceless velar
in Meiteilon fricative /x/
D. David Wilson Santosh Kumar Smita Sahu Umesh Chamling Sreerakuvandana Vandana
Linguistic Sustainability Ranchi via Kanke: Comparative Study of Extinct Kinship Terms of Linearity of cluster in Tamil:
in the context of Tracing the stigma of Case Markers in Bengali, Kirati Community With reference to ksh and shri
14:50-15:10
endangered Muthuvan mental illness through Oriya and Bahraagi, and
Tribal Language in the proverbial imagination Reconstruction of Proto-
Western Ghats Forms
Palani Kumaresan Repsy Marium Curiously Bareh Aleendra Brahma Sukhvinder Singh Sangha
Language Endangerment Mathew How much the Munda and Sɯ̀nàbàrí and Sànzàrí Detonalization of Punjabi:
and Documentation Khasian languages of Dialects of Bodo: A Towards a loss of Linguistic
Cognitive Structure of
15:10-15:30 (with special reference India deviate from Contrastive Survey Indigeneity
Cyber Space: How
to Irula a South Indian Brain Conceives Austroasiatic phylum?
Dravidian Tribal the Internet?
Languages)
15:30-15:45 TEA BREAK

Plenary 3 Boris A. Zakharyin

Chair: Honourary Professor, Department of Indian studies, Moscow state University, Russia
15:45-16:30
K.V. Subbarao
Two centuries of Studies in Indian Philology in Russia
16:30-17:30 Session 7
7A 7B 7C 7D
Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair:
K.V. Subbarao T.B. Subba S. Rajendran Ranjit Singh Rangila
Tarai Swapna Akoju Umarani Pappuswamy Ramakrishnan Muthiah
Use of modal auxiliaries ‘Can’ Effect of Ethnicity on the Average Making Dictionaries of Indigenous Language, Literature and Society:
and ‘Will’ associated with Itch Levels of Indians Vis-à-vis Languages: Design Issues and Semiotic Study of the Origin Myth
prosocial words facilitates the Codification of Lexical Semantic of the Santhals
Caucasians, Afro Americans and
16:30-16:50 processing of language and and Pragmatic Information
Mongoloids: A Forensic Phonetic
enhances the outcome of
communication Perspective

Kuntala Ghosh Dastidar
Contrastive Study of Echo
16:50-17:10 Reduplication in Bengali and
Hindi
Anindita Sahoo
Pseudo copulas and No-
17:10-17:30 Elision: A typological study
Arup Majumder & Atanu Saha Jibin Kiran Nivedita Mitra
An Anthropo-linguistic Study on the Gundert model of Dictionary The Semiotic Relevance: a
Kinship Terms of Kurmali making Substantivist Approach
R. Joela Rubini Gajendra P & Abhinav Kumar Mishra & Rakhi
An Eco critical study on Pillai's Neelam Yadav Mishra
Chemmeen with reference to South Development of Machine Readable Relevance of Forensic Linguistics
Indian Fishermen Dictionary in Indian Context

17:30- 18:30 GENERAL BODY MEETING: ICOSAL-13

18:30-19:30 Cultural Programme

Conference Dinner
20:00-22:00
Hosted by Director, CIIL, Mysuru
DAY 3 10 January 2018
9:30-10:30 Session 8
8A 8B 8C 8D
Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair:
Boris A. Zakharyin K.Viswanatham K. Rangan M.Balakumar
Girijapathi. N.M. S. Rajendran Nadaraja Pillai Pritamkumar Singh
Grammatical Tradition of Cognitive Extensions of Meaning Preparing a Common Template for Obligatory and Optionality of
Kannada language (Language in Verbs of Movement in Tamil Teaching South Asian Languages
9:30-9:50 Pronominal markers in Imphal and
of Dravidian Family) through Multimedia Packages Heirok Dialects of Manipuri

Nirmaljit Kaur Sam Mohan Lal G.Prabhakar Chandan Kumar

Contribution of Bhartṛhari in Teaching of Indian Scripts to Adults Definiteness & Multiple determiners:
9:50-10:10 Impact of Tamil on the socio -
Indian Grammar Tradition in L2/LF Situations A case study of Magahi language
cultural and linguistic loss in Urali

Abrar KJ Bornini Lahiri & Ritesh Kumar Razaul Karim Faquire Veerababu Modala
Verb descriptions in etic Diachronic Study of Mixed Codes Projecting an Ideological Basis for A syntactic and Semantic analysis of
10:10-10:30 Malayalam grammars Causative Motion Verbs in Telugu
in Bengali Films the English Language Education
and English
Policy of Bangladesh

Peter E. Hook1 and Omkar N. Koul2

Plenary 4 1
Universities of Michigan and Virginia, USA and 2 Indian Institute of Language Studies
10:35-11:15 Chair:
Rajesh Sachdeva Impersonal Expressions in Hindi-Urdu and Phantom Valents in Kashmiri

11:15-11:30 TEA BREAK

Grammatical Traditions of Indian Classical Languages
Panelists
L.Ramamoorthy First Grammars of Classical Dravidian Languages
11:30-13:30 Invited Colloquium K.Rangan A Basis of Conceptual System: Tolkappiam - Ezhuttatikaram
B.N.Patnaik Oriya Grammar across Centuries and Theories
Ranjit Singh Rangila Grammatical Traditions of Sanskrit
R.Panneerselvam Shabdha Smiriti: A Linguistic Study
13:30-14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30-15:30 Session 9
9A 9B 9C 7E
Chair: Chair: Chair: Chair:
B.N.Patnaik Saratchandran Nair C.V.Sivaramakrishna Abhinav K. Mishra
K.Viswanatham Tariq Khan Basavanthrao Patil Bablu Ray
Variation in the Use of Personal Children’s Humour in the Perspective The Translation of Ideology and Lexical Creativity in Post-colonial
14:30-14:50 Pronouns in Modern Dravidian and of Language Pedagogy Short Stories Indian English Novel: The
Aryan Languages: A Comparative Inheritance of Loss
Analysis
Diksha Konwar & Arun Balaji T & Rajesh Kumar Md. Saleem Ahmed Vandana Mishra
Parijat Narzary Teaching of English Language in Influences of Arabic Language & Combining corpus linguistics and
A Comparative Study of Tense and Tamil Medium Schools Literature on Urdu Lang. & critical discourse analysis to study
14:50-15:10 Aspect in Bodo and Deori Literature: with reference to power relations and ideology in
Translation work Hindi Newspapers

Zeenat Tabassum Tirumala Pal Biswas & Dripta N. Kalaivani Bijayanti Devi Haobam
The Syntax and Semantics of V- Piplai Mondal Antiquity of Tamil Numbers in Somdal (A Dialect of
15:10-15:30 nako construction in Lambani Developing an Integrated Curriculum Tangkhul)
Using Mother Tongue: Integrated
Resource Centre in Sunderban Islands
15:30-15:45 TEA BREAK
15:45-16:45 CLOSING SESSION
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