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STUDENTS’ CONFERENCE OF LINGUISTICS |
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About thirty research students from eight Indian universities and three
foreign universities attended the event and presented their research
papers. Apart from the faculty of CIEFL, Hyderabad, linguistics faculty
from Jawaharlal Nehru University and Delhi University extended their
support to the organizers. Professor R. Amritavalli, set the tempo for the
conference with her warm welcome filled with humorous quips and anecdotes
from the association of CIEFL with formal linguistics. Dr. Ayesha Kidwai
from JNU reminisced about her visits to CIEFL, and the rigour of Formal
Linguistics and Professor K.A. Jayaseelan further filled in the
participants on the development of Formal linguistics in India with CIEFL
being the pioneer.
The conference was divided into six sessions over a period of two days,
where research scholars from among the students chaired each session. The
Papers presented at the conference are grouped into four sections;
phonology, syntax, computational linguistics and others. Papers on various
topics such as gemination, stress, vowel alternation, case, adverbials,
syntax of NP, attributive adjectives, counterfactuals and conditionals,
incorporation, information structure, discourse, parsing, machine
translation, loan words etc were presented by the participants. These
issues were illustrated via various languages such as English, Maithili,
Malayalam, Hindi, Assamese, Bangla, Ao Chungli, Sindhi, Bundeli, Kannada,
Vietnamese, Yemeni, Arabic, Sinhala, Indian Sign Language, etc.
The feedback session at the end of the second day with Dr. Ayesha Kidwai
chairing, had the faculty and students formulating plans for the next
SCONLI meeting. A group of students was nominated consisting of research
students from Delhi University, JNU and CIEFL to form a SCONLI core
committee.
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