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Latitude

20.1008

Longitude

84.16325

Start Date

2017-11-25

End Date

2017-11-25

Gutob data from this deposit was presented by Dr. Gregory Anderson, as well as jointly with Dr. Bikram Jora, at various international academic conferences in 2016-2017. This item contains presentations from the following events: GA2-Conferences1-01 “If you eat beef you cannot learn: Internal neocolonialism, ‘development’ and the languages of ‘primitive tribals’ in Jharkhand and Odisha states, India” - a presentation by Anderson and Jora given at the SALSA conference in Austin, Texas, in 2017. GA2-Conferences1-02 “Borrowing and Metatypy in the History of Munda Languages” - a presentation by Anderson and Jora given at the International Conference on Indian Languages in Contact Situations: Historical, Typological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives, February 2016. GA2-Conferences1-03 “Reduplication and related phenomena in the Munda languages” - a presentation by Dr. Anderson given at the University of South Africa (UNISA) in 2016. GA2-Conferences1-04 Dr. Anderson gave the keynote lecture at the 1st International Conference of Munda Linguistics held at Deccan College, Pune, India, in March 2017 on the topic of “Proto-Munda morphosyntax and morphotactics in South Asian and Austroasiatic contexts”. GA2-Conferences1-05 In May 2017, Anderson and Jora presented the paper “Talking Dictionaries for ‘tribal’ languages of Jharkhand, Odisha and Arunachal Pradesh” at the Documentary Linguistics: Asian Perspectives (DLAP-2) conference held at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. GA2-Conferences1-06 Anderson and Jora gave a joint presentation at the 7th International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 7) in Kiel, Germany: “Interdependencies of negation, TAM marking and person-indexing in the Munda languages.” GA2-Conferences1-07 The New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific (NWAV-AP5) conference was at the University of Queensland, Australia, in February 2018. Dr. Anderson, Dr. Jora and Mr. Opino Gomango presented a joint paper entitled, “Towards a typology of contact-driven morphosyntactic restructuring in Munda languages.” GA2-Conferences1-08 “Proto-Kherwarian negation TAM and person-indexing interdependencies” - a presentation given by Anderson and Jora at the Austroasiatic Workshop 2016: Myanmar Center, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. GA2-Conferences1-09 “Towards the Proto-Kherwarian Verb: Historical-comparative study of negation, TAM and person-indexing interdependencies” - a presentation given by Anderson at the 1st International Conference of Munda Linguistics held at Deccan College, Pune, India, in March 2017. GA2-Conferences1-10 Dr. Anderson gave the keynote lecture at the 1st International Conference of Munda Linguistics held at Deccan College, Pune, India, in March 2017, on the topic of “Proto-Munda morphosyntax and morphotactics in South Asian and Austroasiatic contexts”. GA2-Conferences1-11 This is the reference list an invited talk given by Dr. Anderson at the Freie Universität Berlin entitled “The ecologies of language endangerment and the threat to linguistic diversity in Asia”. GA2-Conferences1-12 “The interaction of tense, negation, and person indexing in the Munda languages” was a presentation given by Anderson & Jora at the SALA conference in Lisbon, Portugal in 2016. GA2-Conferences1-13 “The interaction of tense, negation, and person indexing in the Munda languages” was a presentation given by Anderson & Jora at the Documentary Linguistics: Asian Perspectives (DLAP-2) conference in Hong Kong in 2017. GA2-Conferences1-14 At the International workshop on typological profiles of language families of South Asia (part of the Areal Perspective on South Asian Languages 2016 conference) in Uppsala, Sweden, Dr. Anderson presented a talk entitled “Extrinsically and intrinsically-motivated change, Proto-Munda typology, modern Munda languages and the ‘Sinosphere/Indosphere’ debate”. The Gutob language documentation project was made possible by award no. 1500092 from the National Science Foundation, "Documentation of Gutob, an endangered Munda language of India.” This support is gratefully acknowledged at the beginning of each conference handout.

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