I was in Paris recently for the International Conference on Hindi Studies organized by Prof. Ghanshyam Sharma at INALCO and co-sponsored by the Indian embassy in Paris. This was an interesting conference in that it brought together linguists, language teachers, and literary scholars.  I presented a paper on the realization of the Feminine Plural in Hindi-Urdu, co-authored with Stefan Keine (USC). A very gratifying aspect of presenting this paper at ICHS was that our formal analysis of the phenomenon seemed to be useful to the audience of language teachers too. Thank you Ekaterina Kostina!

(Pictures of INALCO, the barge on the Seine where the conference dinner was, Professors Ayesha Kidwai, Anoop Mahajan, Annie Montaut, Andrea Drocco and others follow.)