FASAL 15 will take place in Patton Hall (RLP) on the east side of the UT campus. Here it is on the map. We will be in the Glickman Conference Center, located on the first floor (RLP Room 1.302B).
Please use this link to register for virtual participation: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/mh0VS2sIQA-IUH32sbFAgA
| FASAL 15 – UT Austin, April 11–13, 2025 | ||
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| friday, april 11 | ||
| 8:50-9:20 | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 9:20-9:30 | Opening remarks by John Beavers (UT Linguistics Chair) | |
| Session 1 – Chair: Steve wechsler | ||
| 9:30-10:00 | Sreekar Raghotham (Rutgers) | Indexiphors and movement |
| 10:00-10:30 | Manasvi Chaturvedi (Yale) | Sub-type readings in Hindi numeral reduplication |
| 10:30-11:00 | Srabasti Dey (Barcelona) | Specificational pseudo-clefts as left-adjoined correlatives in Bangla |
| 11:00-11:20 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2 – Chair: miriam butt | ||
| 11:20-12:30 | Invited talk: Aditi Lahiri (Oxford) | Phonological transparency and opacity |
| 12:40-2:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 3 – Chair: gregory anderson | ||
| 2:00-2:30 | Jonathan Paramore & Adeline Sui (UCSC) | Phonetically complete neutralization in Mankiyali |
| 2:30-3:00 | Akshay Aitha (Chicago) | Phonological domains, nominal-verbal parallelism, and Telugu vowel harmony |
| 3:00-3:30 | Krishna Pulipaty (Rutgers) | Telugu has a rounding harmony, not a backness harmony |
| 3:30-3:50 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 4 – Chair: Sadhwi Sriniwas | ||
| 3:50-4:20 | Pravaal Yadav and Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu (UConn) | On non-exhaustive readings with disjunction and the role of articles |
| 4:20-4:50 | Farah Adeeba and Rajesh Bhatt (UMass) | A paradigm gap in Urdu |
| 4:50-5:20 | Viriginia Dawson and Ari Rose (Western Washington) | Tiwa Khup: a degree modifier in the verb phrase |
| Saturday, April 12 | ||
| 8:45-9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Session 5 – Chair: rajesh bhatt | ||
| 9:00-11:10 | Virtual Poster Session (w. lightning talks) | |
| 11:10-11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 6 – Chair: ashwini deo | ||
| 11:30-12:40 | Invited talk: Sadhwi Sriniwas (William and Mary) | Kannada bare singulars in episodic contexts |
| 12:40-1:45 | Lunch | |
| Session 7 – Chair: John Beavers | ||
| 1:45-2:15 | Yuki Seo (Delaware) | Differential object marking in Burmese ditransitives |
| 2:15-2:45 | Rajesh Bhatt (UMass), Madhumita Barbora (Tezpur) and Raju Ram Boro (Tezpur) | Agreement in Biate: subjects agree, objects cliticize |
| 2:45-3:05 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 8 – Discourse Dynamics; Chair: David Beaver | ||
| 3:05-3:20 | Ashwini Deo (UT Austin) | Introduction |
| 3:20-3:50 | Benazir Mumtaz and Miriam Butt (Konstanz) | Interaction between alternative and polar questions in Urdu: Evidence from Prosody |
| 3:50-4:20 | Veda Kanamarlapudi and Ahmad Jabbar (Stanford) | Lo: mirativity on the table |
| 4:20-4:50 | Sampada Deshpande (UT Austin) | The particle `em’ in Gujarati |
| 4:50-5:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 9 – Discourse Dynamics; Chair: miriam butt | ||
| 5:00-5:30 | Aaditya Kulkarni (virtual) (independent) | Exclusive disjunction and uncertainty in Marathi |
| 5:30-6:00 | Shaunak Phadnis (UMass) | Negative meaning without negation: case of bara in Marathi |
| 6:15 | Conference Dinner | |
Sunday, April 13 | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Breakfast | |
| Session 10 – Chair: ashwini deo | ||
| 9:30-10:30 | Invited talk: Shakuntala Mahanta (IIT Guwahati) (virtual) | Focus prosody in Boro and Dimasa |
| 10:30-11:00 | Greg Anderson, Bikram Jora, and Luke Horo (Living Tongues) | Information structure marked by morphology, syntax and prosody in Munda languages |
| 11:00-11:20 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 11 – Chair: rajesh bhatt | ||
| 11:20-11:50 | Ojaswee Bhalla and Deepak Alok (IIT Delhi) (virtual) | Re-visiting honorification in Hindi and the discourse particle ji |
| 11:50-12:20 | Indu Herath and Benjamin Slade (Utah) (virtual) | Stability and change in Sinhala verbal constructions |
| 12:20-12:35 | Biswanath Kumar (Seoul National University) | Re-evaluating the status of rah- within the aspectual system of Hindi |
| 12:35-12:50 | Rishab Borah (Illinois) | On the DP/NP parameter and the nominal projection in Assamese |
| 1:00-1:30 | Business meeting | |
Virtual Poster Session
FASAL15 will have a virtual poster session that will consist of lightning (6 minute) talks with 4 minutes for questions.
- Joynal Ali (IIT Delhi): Honorificity and Number Features are Distinct Processes: A Case of Honorificity and Plurality in Assamese Pronouns
- Mouma Banik (Univ. Delhi): Moving subjects out of je clauses in Bangla: a case of hyper-raising?
- Samopriyo Basu and Nirmal Riaz (Simon Fraser): Pronominal enclitics on floating flags in Sindhi and Brahui
- Biswanath Dash (IIT Delhi): The nature and formation of zero nominals in Santhali
- Tulika Gogoi, Sekholu Tetseo and Amalesh Gope (Tezpur): Prosodic structure in Chokri
- Pratikshya Guru, Anusuya Nayak, and Paroma Sanyal (IIT Delhi): Prosodic licensing of /o/ in Katki and Sambalpuri: a nonce-based study
- Greeshma Joseph and Paroma Sanyal (IIT Delhi): Realization of gemination in Malayalam past tense morphology
- Davide Mocci (Univ. Cagliari): Vedic Sanskrit compounding as a window into tough-movement
- Gopalakrishnan R. (EFLU): Tamil =e as an even-like focus-sensitive scalar enclitic
- Madhusmitha Venkatesan (IIT Delhi): Deriving adjectives in heritage Tamil: stability and change
- Yash Sinha (MIT), Sakshi Bhatia (Univ Delh), and Athulya Aravind (MIT): Rescuing gluttonous probes in copular agreement via pervasive impoverishment