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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 16<br style="box-sizing: border-box">
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Date: 10-Apr-2026 - 11-Apr-2026 (in person); April 18 (online)<br>
Location: Columbia, South Carolina, USA<br>
Contact: FASAL-16<br>
Contact Email:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"><a href="mailto:fasal16usc@gmail.com">fasal16usc@gmail.com</a><br>
Meeting URL:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/fasal16/home">https://sites.google.com/view/fasal16/home</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Submission Deadline: 05-Jan-2026<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 16 (FASAL 16) will be hosted by the Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">FASAL reaches out to all researchers that do high-quality linguistic study of any South Asian language adopting a wide range of methodologies. We welcome submissions on under-researched and/or endangered
South Asian languages in areas including, but not limited to phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and historical linguistics. We particularly encourage submissions from researchers located
in South Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">In the interest of including as many colleagues from around the world as possible, this year FASAL will have both an in-person component on April 10-11, 2026 at the USC campus in Columbia, SC and
a fully online component on April 18, 2026. Researchers submitting abstracts should indicate for which component(s) they are would like to be considered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Mini-workshop:<br>
This year FASAL will feature a special mini-workshop focused on the prosody-syntax interface. Recent work both within and outside South Asian languages has productively addressed interface phenomena such as focus and phrasal prominence, question intonation,
ellipsis, and word order. We welcome research advancing these or any other topics of relevance to prosody-syntax connections in any South Asian language.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Submission Site:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"><a href="https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/FASAL-16/">https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/FASAL-16/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Invited Speakers:<br>
Troy Messick (Rutgers)<br>
Diti Bhadra (University of Minnesota)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Emily Manetta, PhD (she/her)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Professor of Linguistics</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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