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The Deccan College Post-graduate & Research Institute (Deccan College, for short) is one of the oldest institutions of modern learning in India. The Department of Linguistics at the Deccan College (the first in the country) completed 50 years of teaching Linguistics at the postgraduate level in 2008. The Department commemorated this significant event by organizing a Golden Jubilee Celebration and hosting the 30th All India Conference of Linguists (AICL).
The 30th All India Conference and the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the commencement of Post-Graduate teaching of Linguistics were held at the Department of Linguistics, Deccan College from 26-28 November 2008. This event was jointly organized by the Department of Linguistics, Deccan College, Pune (Deemed University), Linguistic Society of India and Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.
Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar, Former Director, C-DAC Pune, inaugurated the Conference. Prof. U.N. Singh, Director, Central Institute of Indian languages, Mysore, delivered the keynote speech. Prof. K. Rangan, President, Linguistic society of India delivered the Presidential address and Dr. G.B. Deglurkar, President, Deccan College Post-Graduate & Research Institute, chaired the inaugural session.
INAUGURAL FUNCTION: (10.00 a.m.-12.30 p.m.) Wednesday
The inaugural function was held in the Auditorium, Main Building of the Deccan College on 26th Nov.2008. The function started with Saraswati Vandana sung by the students of Department of Linguistics. Prof. K.S. Nagaraja, Head of the Department of Linguistics welcomed the guests present in the inaugural function. Prof. V.P. Bhatta, Director of the institute made remarks about the conference and also welcomed the guests. The chief guest of the function, Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar, inaugurated the conference by lighting the lamp. He also released the Conference Souvenir. In his Golden Jubilee Inaugural Speech, Dr. Bhatkar stressed the importance of the interface between human language and computer processing. He also highlighted the important role that linguists could play in work relating to the interface between human language and computer processing.
After the inaugural speech, Dr. G.B. Deglurkar, President, Deccan College, presented the Golden Jubilee Mementos to Senior Alumni of the Deccan College such as Dr. Asha Mundalay (Pune), Dr. H.C. Patyal ( Pune), Dr. M. Pokhrayal ( Nepal), Dr. Naval K. Rai ( Nepal), Prof. Nazir A. Dhar ( Kashmir), Prof. Peri Bhaskar Rao ( Japan), Prof. Rajesh Sachdeva (CIIL, Mysore), and Prof. B.R.K. Reddy ( Hyderabad).
Prof. K. Rangan, President, Linguistic Society of India, delivered his presidential address on the activities of Linguistic Society of India, its past and its future prospects.
Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh, Director, CIIL, Mysore, in his Keynote address, talked about the importance of Mother Tongue as a medium of instruction especially in secondary and higher secondary level of school education. He also emphasized that literacy plays a vital role in eradication of poverty by providing the necessary inputs for knowledge to pursue some vocation. He also spoke about the role of linguists in improving the literacy of the masses by providing the knowledge in mother tongue and with better teaching technology .
Prof. K Rangan felicitated Prof. V.I. Subramoniam and released the 69th volume of Indian Linguistics which was a felicitation volume brought out in honour a Prof. V.I. Subramoniam.
Dr. G. B. Deglurkar delivered his chairperson's remarks and Dr. K. Srinivasacharya, CIIL, Mysore, proposed a vote of thanks. The function ended with the Pasaydana.
A total of 135 linguists from India and abroad participated in this Golden jubilee celebrations and AICL-30. A total of 21 parallel sessions was held. To mark the Golden Jubilee celebrations four plenary lectures were delivered by experts in various fields of Linguistics. The details of the plenary lectures and the technical sessions are as follows.
PLENARY SESSIONS
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
26/11/2008 |
4.30 pm-5.30 pm |
Prof. V.N. Jha |
Classical Indian Model of Linguistic Communication |
27/11/2008 |
9.30 am -10.30 am |
Prof. B.R.K. Reddy |
Teaching of Linguistics in India over the Last Fifty Years: A Retrospect |
27/11/2008 |
4.30 pm-5.30 pm |
Prof. Uma Maheswara Rao |
Lexical Resources for Computational Linguistics |
28/11/2008 |
9.30 am-10.30 am |
Prof. Peri Bhaskararao |
An Outline of the Role of Linguistic-Phonetics in Speech Technology |
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
26TH NOVEMBER 2008
Time: 2 pm to 4.10 pm No. of Parallel Sessions: 5
Technical Session 1A: Syntax
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Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
1. |
Tanmoy Bhattacharya & Ruchi Jain |
On What is Believed be a Passive in Bundeli |
2. |
Shweta Chandra |
Agreement in Magahi Possessive DPs and Small Clauses |
Technical Session 1B: Sociolinguistics
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Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
3. |
Vivek Bhat & Milind Malshe |
Dialect Conundrum- The Case of Marathi and Konkani |
4. |
Ajit Kumar Baishya |
Nefamese- The Lingua Franca |
5. |
S.R. Sharma |
Classification of Tibeto-Burman Languages- The State of Art |
6. |
Kalika Mehta |
Some Special Linguistic Features of Jain Shrimalee Speech Variety |
7. |
Nazir Ahmad Dhar |
Language Identity in Multilingual Societies- Structuration Approach |
8. |
S. Rajendu |
A Dravidian Linguistic Pre-Historical Exegies with Inter-Cultural Onomastics in a Model Nedunganad Hamlet Terms Nellaya |
9. |
Suranjana Barua & Tanmoy Bhattacharya |
Good Wife Good Life? |
Technical Session 1C: Morphology
|
Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
10. |
Christiane Pilot-Raichoor |
Morphological Singularities of Present Tense Paradigms in Badaga |
11. |
Kailadbou Daimai |
Nominal Classifiers in Liangmai |
Technical Session 1D: Computational Linguistics
|
Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
12. |
Renjini Narendranath & Soma Paul |
The Computational Handling of Malayalam Verb Morphology |
13. |
Karuna Nidhi Mishra |
The Role of Computational Grammar in NLP |
14. |
Niladri Shekhar Dash |
Naturalization of English Words into Modern Bengali- A Corpus-Based Empirical Study |
15. |
Mina Dan & Debopam Das |
Terminology and Vernacular- A Case of Linguistic Terminology in Bangla |
16. |
Niladri Shekhar Dash, Debasree Ganguly & Devlina Banerjee |
Indirect Utilization of English Corpora in Teaching English to the Bengali Learners |
17. |
Archana Thool |
Vak Prodyogiki |
18. |
Manji Bhadra |
Gender Analysis System for Sanskrit NPs |
Technical Session 1E: Psycholinguistics & Sign Language
|
Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
19. |
Deepa Moni Baruah |
Arithmetic Disorder in Assamese Aphasics |
20. |
Janhavi Bidnur |
Acquisition of Marathi- A Case Study, with Special Focus on Syntax and Semantics |
21. |
Hidam Gaurashyam Singh |
IPSL Incorporation- The Pro Drop Illusion |
22. |
A Marykutty |
The Language Performance of a Child with Semantic Pragmatic Disorder- A Linguistic Study with Special Reference to his Mother Tongue, Malayalam |
27TH NOVEMBER 2008
Time: 11 am to 1 pm No. of Parallel Sessions: 4
Technical Session 2A: Syntax
|
Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
23. |
A.B.M. Razaul Karim Faquire |
Recognizing Participial Relative Clause in Bangla |
24. |
Deepak Kumar |
Tense and Agreement in Angika- An Agree-Based Account |
25. |
Gibu Sabu M |
Is Malayalam Tensed? |
26. |
ASanket Kumar Pathak |
Vectors and Mixed Transitivity in Hindi Compound Verbs |
27. |
Krishna Boro |
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Technical Session 2B: Phonology
|
Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
28. |
Radhika Gopalkrishnan |
Second Language Phonology- Investigation of Tamil English |
29. |
Suman Bandopadhyay |
Phonotactics of Schwa (ə) and Hindi Word final Consonants |
30. |
Hukum Chand Patyal |
Some Cases of Metathesis in Indo-Aryan |
31. |
Shubhanan Gangal |
New Concepts of Sound Perception |
32. |
Trupti Nisar |
Changing Phonological Patterns of Mumbai’s Gujarati Community |
33. |
Shailendra Shukla |
Phonological Error by Hindi Speakers while Learning Urdu |
Technical Session 2C: Morphology
|
Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
34. |
Joyshree Sutradhar |
A Feature-Based Study of Classifier Languages of North East India |
35. |
Hemananda B.P. |
Morphophonemics of Numerals in Kannada |
36. |
Chaithra Puttaswamy |
Multi-Verb Constructions in Malto |
37. |
Khateeb S. Mustafa |
Urdu Broken Plurals- A Morpho-Semantic Study |
Technical Session 2D: Sanskrit & Classical Studies
|
Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
38. |
Rita Bhattacharya |
Madhumati- An Unexplored Manuscript of Mugdhabodha Vyakarana |
39. |
Andrea Drocco |
Some Remarks about the Meanings of the Term Desi in the Context of Ancient Indian Grammatical Tradition |
40. |
Malhar Kulkarni |
The Meaning of the Genitive Case According to the School of Bhaooamemaasa |
41. |
Avinash Pandey |
On the Terminological Variants of the Notion Sign in Saussurean Thought |
27TH NOVEMBER 2008
Time: 2 pm to 4.10 pm No. of Parallel Sessions: 5
Technical Session 3A: Sociolinguistics
|
Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
42. |
Aditi Ghosh, Bula Bhadra & Mina Dan |
Migration, Multilingual Metropolis and Youth- A Study of Language Use and Attitudes of a Section of Students of Calcutta University |
43. |
Suchitra Chakraborty |
The Varying forms in English- Grammaticality and Acceptability in the Non-Native Speaker’s Use of English |
44. |
Sunil Baraik |
Socio-Linguistic Study of Nagpuri- A case Study on the Tribal Weavers of Jharkhand (Chik Baraik) |
45. |
Pritha Mukhopadhyay |
Code-Mixing and Code-Switching in the Language of the Media |
46. |
Madhavi Sardesai |
Konkani Kinship Terminology |
47. |
Sasikumar P.N. |
Language Myth and Reality- Form and Content Study Based on P.R.D.S. Songs |
Technical Session 3B: Scripts
|
Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
48. |
Sapna Tiwari & Ram Prakash Saxena |
Script Movements in India |
49. |
U-tain Wongsathit |
The Serial Numerals and Names in Ancient Thai Inscriptions |
50. |
N. Nadaraja Pillai |
Contributions of the Tamils to the Writing Systems of some East Asian Countries |
51. |
Wannapat Ruandsup |
The Contribution of Pallava Script in the Development of Ancient Thai Inscriptions before 8th Century A.D. |
52. |
Dileep V. |
Secret Language of Parayas- A Morphological Study |
Technical Session 3C: Morphology
|
Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
53. |
Renuka Ozarkar |
A Note on Complementizers in Marathi |
54. |
Abhishek Kushwaha |
Formation of Echo Words in Bhojpuri |
55. |
Arvind Singh Negi & Mansha Singh |
Causatives in Kurux |
56. |
Shashibala Singh & Sanjukta Ghosh |
Adverbial Modification and Tense-Aspect Realization |
57. |
Madhav Pokharel |
A Strategic Search for the General Formula of Verb root Derivation in Nepali |
58. |
Rujira Sengnet |
Classifiers in Kinsew |
59. |
Shubhangi Kardile |
Some Morphological Features and Ethnolinguistic Observations of a Variety of Marathi Spoken by Makadev Kolis in Maharashtra |
Technical Session 3D: Language Teaching
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Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
60. |
Mohammed Ansarul Alam |
Needs of Bangladeshi Foreign Language Learners |
61. |
Niladri Shekhar Dash |
Direct Utilization of English Corpora in English Language Teaching |
62. |
Hemanga Dutta |
A Critique of C.B.S.E. English Corpora in English Language Teaching |
63. |
M. Balakumar |
Reality Objectives to Assessment Methods W.R.T. Language Courses |
Technical Session 3E: Grammatical Tradition
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Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
64. |
Parboty Chakraborty |
Identification of Objective Case (Karmakaraka) in Sanskrit Grammatical Perspectives- Utility and Problems Involved Therein |
65. |
S. Adhikari |
The First Case ending in Various Aspects of Manuscript Sources |
66. |
Sumita Chaterjee |
Sanskrit Ablative Case- A Post-Paninian Approach |
67. |
Prasad Joshi |
A Glimpse into the One Term Principle in the Astadhyayi |
28TH NOVEMBER 2008
Time: 11 am to 1 pm No. of Parallel Session: E
Technical Session 4A: Semantics, Pragmatics & Discourse
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Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
68. |
A.R. Fatihi |
Language in Industrial Communication |
69. |
Vinay Kumar Jain & Meena Jain |
Power and Solidarity in the Discourse of Shakespeare |
70. |
Rajat Ghosh |
Metaphorical Elements Conventionalized in the Lexical Repertoire of Bangla |
71. |
Devraj Panda |
? |
72. |
R.N. Aralikatti |
Minor Sentences in Modern Spoken Sanskrit- Some Linguistic Observations based on Data |
Technical Session 4B: Language Planning Policy
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Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
73. |
Novel K. Rai |
Documentation of Chintang: An endangered Language of Rai Kiranti (Nepal) |
74. |
L. Ramamoorthy |
Endangerment of Tribal Languages in Indian Context |
75. |
Arun Ghosh |
Promotion of Tribal Languages in Education- Santali- A Case Study |
76. |
R.M.W. Rajapaksa & Sudath Senarath |
Ethnic Crisis and Language Panning in Sri Lanka |
77. |
Arup Kumar Nath |
Revitalizing Tiwa Language- The Phenomena of Language Shift and Maintenance |
Technical Session 4C: Sociolinguistics
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Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
78. |
Mrunalini Shah |
The Impact of Marathi Language on Gujarati dialect of Pune’s Vishashrimali-108 of Jain Religion |
79. |
Anita Pandey |
Leveraging India’s Linguistic Capabilities- A survey of Emerging Research Needs |
Technical Session 4D: Language Teaching
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Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
80. |
Jonathan Rider |
Teaching Hindi to Foreigners through Visual Representation |
81. |
M. Attar & S.S. Chopra |
Task-Based Language Teaching in India |
82. |
Kunjaban Patel |
Pragmatics and Effective Second Language Teaching |
83. |
Dollaporn Phuakkong |
The Introduction of special Education in Thailand |
84. |
P.N. Sinha |
A Comparative Study of Participles in Hindi and German |
Technical Session 4E: Computational Linguistics
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Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
85. |
M.V. Bildikar & B.V. Pawar |
Marathi Language Interface to Database |
86. |
R.P. Bhavsar & B.V. Pawar |
Human Assisted Hindi and Marathi Machine Translation- A Perspective |
87. |
Veena Dixit |
Translation and Machine- Word Sense Disambiguation |
88. |
Diwakar Mishra, Surjit Kumar Singh & Girish Nath Jha |
Sanskrit Lexicographical Models and their Adaptation for Language Technology |
89. |
Anil Thakur & Neha Vashistha |
Disambiguation and Mapping of Hindi hii onto English |
28TH NOVEMBER 2008
Time: 2 pm to 3 pm No. of Parallel Session: 2
Technical Session 5A: Sociolinguistics
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Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
90. |
Payal Dutta Chowdhury |
Advertisements and their Humorous Appeal- A Linguistic Analysis |
91. |
Payal Dutta Chowdhury & Sonia Roy |
Language of Bengali Classified- A Mirror of the Present Society |
92. |
Gunanidhi Beriha |
Interrogatives in Oriya and English |
Technical Session 5B: Language History
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Name of the Participant |
Title of the Paper |
93. |
Liny Srinivasan |
Significance of Desi Words |
VALEDICTORY SESSION (3.00-4.00 p.m.)
The valedictory session of the Golden Jubilee Celebration and AICL-30 started at 3. p.m. on 28th Nov. Prof. V.I. Subramoniam presided over the function. Prof. Subramoniam welcomed the audience and introduced the list of guest speakers. Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash and Prof. S.R. Sharma spoke on this occasion. Finally, Prof. K.S. Nagaraja proposed a vote of thanks and the function came to a close at 4.00 p.m.
Alumni Meet:
On 25th November, a day before the conference, past students of the Department of Linguistics met at 11.00 a.m. in the Auditorium, Library Building. Prof. K.S. Nagaraja welcomed the alumni. Prof. Peri Bhaskar Rao coordinated the session. Dr. Asha Mundlay (student of the first batch of M. A. Linguistics) addressed the meet. Dr. M. Pokharel, Prof. Rajesh Sachdeva, Dr.Vijaya Deo, Dr. Sonal Kulkarni- Joshi and others addressed the audience, shared their memories of time spent at the Deccan college and also gave suggestions to improve the M.A. Linguistics program at the Deccan College.
Linguistic Society of India meet:
The executive committee of Linguistic society of India met on 26th Nov. at 6.00 p.m. in the Department of Linguistics to discuss the activities of Society. Prof. K.S. Nagaraja, Secretary, Linguistic Society of India, presented the annual report. Prof.K.Rangan chaired the session.
The general Body meeting was held on 27th Nov. at 6.00 p.m. in the auditorium, main building chaired by Prof. K.Rangan. The general body resolved that the new Linguistic Survey of India should be initiated by the Central government at the earliest.
RESOLUTION
It is unanimously resolved that the NEW LINGUISTIC SURVEY OF INDIA be initiated before many of the languages are lost forever.
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