1 Rikker Dockum, Dartmouth College, rikker.dockum@dartmouth.edu )CSTLL ͵ͻ, University of Washington, ͳ͹ September ʹͲͲ͸ CONVERGENCES IN KHUMI AND MARMA MORPHOSYNTAX * 1. INTRODUCTION Goal of the talk : To present some cases of possible morphosyntactic convergence between Khumi and Marma, both languages spoken in Bangladesh. This is interesting because these convergences give Khumi the superficial appearance of being an atypical Kuki-Chin language. )n fact, this may not be the case, but extensive contact with Marma makes it appear so. Research : Khumi data is from the corpus collected by David Peterson. Marma data was gathered between December ʹͲͲͷ and June ʹͲͲ͸ from direct elicitation and text analysis with a Khumi consultant who has near-native ability in Marma, using texts provided by native Marma speakers. Some supplementary material was collected by David Peterson in the summer of ʹͲͲ͸. 2. KHUMI • Khumi is a Kuki-Chin language, spoken by around ʹ,ͲͲͲ people in Bandarban District, in the Chittagong (ill Tracts of Bangladesh. • Khumi has extensive lexical borrowing from Marma. • Most Khumi speakers also speak Marma. 3. MARMA • Marma is a Lolo-Burmese language, spoken extensively in the Chittagong (ill Tracts, ~ͳͷͲ,ͲͲͲ ȋʹͲͲʹ estimateȌ. • Marma is a variety Arakanese. Arakan State in Burma is home to more speakers of Arakanese varieties ȋ~͹ͲͲ,ͲͲͲ, ʹͲͲͳ estimateȌ. * Work on Khumi and Marma is supported by NSF grant #BCS-Ͳ͵ͶͻͲʹͳ to Dartmouth College, David A. Peterson, P.).