Falam Fest
Workshop
Friday, March 21, 2008
3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
156 Dwinelle Hall
Presentation of research on Falam (Kuki-Chin; Tibeto-Burman) currently being conducted in collaboration with Ni Luai Thang and Ngun Thla Dim as part of the Linguistic Field Methods course.
3pm Alice Gaby
"Preliminary Remarks"
3.10pm David Kamholz (abstract)
"Embedded Clauses"
3.35pm Michael Ellsworth (abstract)
"A Historical Account of Kuki-Chin Stem I/Stem II Conditioning Environments: How to Get to Falam"
4pm Dominic Yu (abstract)
"Place of Articulation of Coronal Consonants in Falam Lai: a palatographic study"
4.25 BREAK WITH REFRESHMENTS
4.45pm Heather Todd (abstract)
"Falam Motion Verbs"
5.10pm Justin Spence (abstract)
"Spatial Frames of Reference in Falam"
5.35pm Amy Campbell (abstract)
"Clefts, questions, and sluicing in Falam"
6pm INFORMAL DISCUSSION OVER MORE REFRESHMENTS