Formal Approaches to Southeast Asian Languages (FASAL) III was hosted at USC on March 9th and 10th, 2013. The workshop is a platform for discussion of the formal linguistics of South Asian Languages. This year, invited speakers included Anoop Mahajan (UCLA), K.A. Jayaseelan (English and Foreign languages University, Hyderabad) and Tanmoy Bhattacharya (University of Delhi).
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| Invited speakers, from left to right: K.A. Jayaseelan, Anoop Mahajan, and Tanmoy Bhattacharya |
In addition to planning and coordinating the conference, several USC graduate students and faculty presented work at FASAL:
Two types of definites in Bangla
Priyanka Biswas
Focus, Word Order and Prosody in Hindi and Bangla
Arunima Choudhury and Elsi Kaiser
The semantics of -r in Bangla
Saurov Syed
Comparison in the absence of adjectives: the case of Dravidian
Mythili Menon
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| Professor Andrew Simpson at the conference |
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| Profesoor Jayaseelan gives his presentation |
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| Professor Roumi Pancheva introduces Tanmoy Bhattacharya |
Congratulations to all who presented, and many thanks to those who organized and helped put on the conference!
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