SALA-36: 36 South Asian Language Roundtable Analysis Tribhuvan University Kathmandu, Nepal, July 8-10, 2020 |
Conference website | http://sala-36.cdltu.edu.np |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sala36 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 5, 2020 |
Submission deadline | February 5, 2020 |
The foundation for SALA, the South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, was laid during the 1978 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The LSA that year held a “Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics”, organized by Hans Henrich Hock and Braj B. Kachru, with support from Yamuna Kachru and Rajeshwari Pandharipande. The Conference attracted many of the top South Asian linguists from both North America and South Asia, and the response was so positive that it was decided to offer similar meetings in the future. There was to be a series of “International Conferences on South Asia” and a series of meetings with more limited, North American scope, and thus SALA was born. Unfortunately, the tradition of international conferences was short-lived and ended after the third Conference, held 1982 in Mysore. As a consequence, there was an increasing tendency to broaden the scope of SALA beyond North America, with meetings in India (1997, 2005), the United Kingdom (1998), Germany (2001), and many other venues since then. (See the list of SALAs at the end of this page.)
From the beginning, SALA Roundtables were organized on an ad-hoc basis, without a formal organization behind them. The advantage has been that, even though the University of Illinois hosted the first three Roundtables, this was not interpreted as establishing a monopoly; and soon other institutions followed suit in hosting the Roundtables. The disadvantage is that there are no formal membership lists that can be drawn on for calls for papers, and there is no mechanism by which future host institutions can be easily identified. Nevertheless, through informal exchange of mailing lists and through a sufficiently large number of institutions volunteering to host SALA meeting, there has been an amazing and truly impressive succession of yearly meetings — only a few years (1996, 2000, 2007, 2012, and 2013) were without SALAs.
The first three meetings, held at the University of Illinois were organized by the same members of the UIUC Linguistics Department as the original Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics, with Hans Henrich Hock chairing the planning committee in 1979 and Yamuna Kachru in 1980 and 1981. After 1981, SALA began to be rotate between different universities, organized by local committees with support from national and international committees.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Presentations :Oral presentations are scheduled for 30 minutes. Please aim for 20 min. long presentations and 10 min. for Q&A. A computer will be provided at the venue but feel free to bring your own computer. If you are using slides, they should be uploaded and tested on the conference computer during the coffee or lunch break immediately preceding your presentation. This will also give you the chance to meet and introduce yourself to the session chair. Please provide your slides on a USB stick, in either .pptx or .pdf format, embedding fonts and sound- and video-files if necessary. A remote control with laser pointer will be provided.
- Posters :It is recommended to print your posters in advance. You can put your posters up in the lunch break before the poster session. Fixing material will be provided on site.
- Workshops:There will be at least 3 workshop sessions on Phonetics/phonology,agreement on TB/Munda/Austro Asiatic,Indo Aryan languages.Workshop session has 180 minute time each day.
List of Topics
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Morphology and Syntax
- Semantics and Pragmatics
- Comparative and typological studies
- Cognitive and psycholinguistic studies
- Language contact
- Historical linguistics and language change
- Translation studies
- Computational linguistics
- Corpus and quantitative linguistic studies
- Language endangerment, preservation and documentation
- Language learning, acquisition, and teaching
- Language policies and planning
Committees
Organizing committee
The Central Department of Linguistics,Tribhuvan University,Kirtipur,Nepal is the main organizer of SALA 36.
Dubi Nanda Dhakal, Tribhuvan University - Chair
Dan Raj Regmi, Tribhuvan University
Tanmoy Bhattacharya Delhi University, India
Samar Sinha, Sikkim University, India
Bhim Lal Gautam, Tribhuvan University - Organizing Secretary
Publication
SALA-36 proceedings will be published by coordinating with authors and publications.
Venue
The conference will be held in Kathmandu,Nepal.The details of the venue and registration process will be informed later.
Contact
All questions about conference and submissions can be emailed to gautambhim@rocketmail.com