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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;"><b>Workshop on typological profiles of language families of South Asia</b></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Uppsala University, Sweden</span></font></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">15-16 September 2016</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The goal of this workshop is to create a forum to discuss issues concerning the typological profiles of the major language families of South Asia. South Asia is home to languages belonging to four major language
families (Indo-European [mostly Indo-Aryan], Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman, Austro-Asiatic and Dravidian) and some minor language families (including language isolates). Despite this multitude of languages and language families, the typological profiles of even
the major language families are not well covered in the literature. A more insightful discussion of the typological profiles of at least the major South Asian language families will also help us in our studies relating to, among others, language typology, language
contact and language change.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Confirmed speakers thus far:</span></font></div>
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<li>Gregory Andersson (Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages)</li><li>Paul Arsenault (Tyndale University College)</li><li>Bernard Comrie (UCSB) & Raoul Zamponi (University of Siena)</li><li>Michael Dunn (Uppsala University)</li><li>Scott DeLancey (University of Oregon)</li><li>Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi (Deccan College)</li><li>Henrik Liljegren (Stockholm University)</li><li>Anju Saxena (Uppsala University) & Lars Borin (University of Gothenburg)</li><li>Claus Peter Zoller (University of Oslo)</li></span></font>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">We invite researchers to submit abstracts for presentations at the workshop. The following topics illustrate the kinds of themes being considered, all with empirical data from SA languages.</span></font></div>
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<li>Fine-grained typological analysis of one or more South Asian language families using WALS-type features</li><li>Large-scale quantitative study of some linguistic aspect of a language family</li><li>Comparative lexical study using computational methods</li><li>Distribution of selected grammatical features within or across a language family</li><li>Large-scale dialect survey of a language</li><li>Deviating linguistic patterns within a language family</li><li>Methodological challenges in doing large-scale comparisons</li><li>Collecting and processing data for large-scale comparisons</li></span></font>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Abstracts should be one (A4 or letter) page long. A second page may be included for references and/or data. Abstracts – in pdf format only – should be sent to: <a href="mailto:anju.saxena@lingfil.uu.se"><font color="blue"><u>anju.saxena@lingfil.uu.se</u></font></a>.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Deadline for abstract submission: <b>15 December 2015</b></span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">A selected number of papers from the workshop will be considered for publication in the <i>Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics</i> (de Gruyter Mouton).</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Anju Saxena</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Professor of Linguistics</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Dept. of Linguistics & Philology</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Uppsala University</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Sweden</span></font></div>
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