Block	Workshops		Conference
Date	Fri, Jan 18	Sat, Jan 19	Sun, Jan 20	Mon, Jan 21 (a)	Mon, Jan 21 (b)	Tues, Jan 22
Session	WS1a	WS3a	Opening	Khasian Chair: U. V. Joseph	Assamese Chair: Madhumita Barbora	Tani Chair: Thangi Chhangte
9:00 - 9:30	Adjectives Stephen Morey	Monolingual fieldwork demonstration Robbins Burling/ U V Joseph	Registration	Derivational morphology in Pnar: A field survey Hemanga Dutta	The referring systems and the determinative elements of nouns in Assamese Jagat Kalita	Morpho-syntactic variation in Pagro and Sayang dialects of Mising community Jugendra Pegu
9:30 - 10:00			Opening addresses	Agreement in Khasi George Bedell	Copular sentences in Asamiya Runima Chowdhary	Topographical deixis in Tani and beyond Mark Post
10:00 - 10:30				Independent pronouns and pronominal clitics in Khasi Badaplin War	Gender inequalities and sexism in Assamese Arup Nath	Body parts in Adi Pasi: A theoretical analysis Amar Singh
10:30 - 11:00	Tea	Tea	Tea	Tea	Tea	Tea
Session	WS1b	WS3b	Introductory Chair: Stephen Morey	Descriptive Phonology Chair: Anita Tamuli	Lexicon 1 Chair: Gwendolyn Hyslop	Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax 3 Chair: Robbins Burling
11:00 - 11:30	Adjectives Stephen Morey	Monolingual fieldwork demonstration Robbins Burling/ U V Joseph	Three confusing meanings of “language” and “dialect” in northeast India Robbins Burling	Phonology of Ruga Caroline Marak	Universal quantifiers in Manipuri Chandam Betholia	Request constructions in the Tibeto-Burman languages of Manipur Chungkham Yashsawanta Singh
11:30 - 12:00			Naming of Deuri Uddipan Dutta	Mishmi phonology Thangi Chhangte	Pronouns in Manipuri and Purum H. Surmangol Sarma N. Gopendro Singh	Interrogatives in Kom Santosh Kumar Sanasam
12:00 - 12:30			Outcomes of contact: Variability in NP structure of Bishnupriya Shobhana Satyanath and Nazrin Laskar	Hajong phonology Liza Guts	Naga body part terms Abhishek Avtans	Nocte and Jingpho: Morphological correspondences Scott DeLancey
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
Session	WS2a	WS4a	Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax 1 Chair: Abhishek Avtans	Field reports/surveys Chair: Erik Andvik	Lexicon 2 Chair: Th. Chandramani Singh	Nominalization Chair: Mark Post
1:30 - 2:00	Topics in NEI language description Thangi Chhangte	TBA Scott DeLancey	Negation in Chothe Brojen Hidam Singh	Case markers in Hajong Virginia Phillips	Naming practice in Manipuri L. Manimala	Nominalization in Assamese Madhumita Barbora
2:00 - 2:30			Person and TAM marking in Tangsa Stephen Morey	Preliminary notes on Tawang Monpa (Dakpa) Gwendolyn Hyslop	Meitei personal names of Manipur Nonghthombam Russell	Nominalization and related phenomena in Marma Keisuke Huziwara
2:30- 3:00			Structural analysis of Thangal as an SOV language Th. Chandramani Singh	Some aspects of the structure of Monpa Awadesh Mishra	Comparative Study of Kom and Aimol Numerals Chongom Damrengthang Aimol	Functions of nominalization in Karbi: A comparative case study Linda Konnerth
3:00 - 3:30	Tea	Tea	Tea	Tea	Tea	Tea
Session	WS2b	WS4b	Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax 2 Chair: Scott DeLancey	Surveys and Phonology Chair: Shobhana Satyanath	Language and Society in Manipur Chair: Chungkham Yashsawanta Singh	Special Session Chair: Jyotiprakash Tamuli
3:30 - 4:00	Topics in NEI language description Thangi Chhangte	TBA Scott DeLancey	Towards a reconstruction of Proto-Bodo-Garo: The PBG noun phrase Daniel Wood	Classifiers in North East languages Joyshree Sutradhar	On being polite in Meitei Society: A socio-linguistic study of speech levels in Meiteilon Ch. Sarajubala Devi	TBA
4:00 - 4:30			TBA	Phonology of [x] in Barpetia Assamese Mukul Sarma	Problems in making a multilingual dictionary: With special reference to Manipuri-Hindi-English Leihaorambam Sarbajit Singh/ Soibam Imoba Singh
4:30 - 5:00			TBA	Tribal Meiteilon: A General Overview Karung Tarun Kom/ Losii Heshu	Evolution and recent development of Meitei Mayek Thounaojam Harimohon	Business Meeting