36.3418, Confs: 16th Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (India)

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Date: 07-Nov-2025
From: Nitindravid P R [nitindravidpdhlandp22 at efluniversity.ac.in]
Subject: 16th Students' Conference of Linguistics in India


16th Students' Conference of Linguistics in India
Short Title: SCONLI-16
Theme: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to South Asian Languages

Date: 07-Jan-2026 - 09-Jan-2026
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Contact: Nitindravid P R
Contact Email: nitindravidpdhlandp22 at efluniversity.ac.in
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/sconli16?usp=sharing

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 23-Nov-2025

The 16th Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India, known as SCONLI
will be held from 07th to 09th of January 2026, hosted by the School
of Language Sciences, The English and Foreign Languages University,
Hyderabad. The conference continues its tradition of intellectual
rigor while actively embracing new methodologies and interdisciplinary
approaches that display the changing face of linguistic research. From
theoretical explorations to applied studies, SCONLI remains committed
to enhancing comprehensive, cutting-edge scholarship. Hosted once more
at EFLU Hyderabad after fifteen years, SCONLI-16 interrogates
established paradigms and cultivates emerging methodologies — it is a
confluence of ideas, a dialogue across generations, and an opportunity
to redefine the contours of linguistic inquiry. As we prepare for
SCONLI-16's return to its institutional roots at EFLU Hyderabad, we
reflect on its legacy while embracing the dynamic future of linguistic
research. We recognize this moment as both a homecoming and a step
forward.
Concept Note:
The persistent dichotomy between formalist conceptions of language as
an autonomous cognitive system (Chomsky, 1965; Hauser et al., 2002)
and functionalist approaches emphasizing its socio-interactional
nature (Gumperz, 1982; Tomasello, 2003) has generated theoretical
tensions that continue to shape disciplinary boundaries. This
conceptual bifurcation, while historically productive, may now
constrain comprehensive understandings of linguistic phenomena that
inherently span both cognitive and social domains. Emerging evidence
from neurolinguistics (Pulvermüller, 2018) and developmental
psycholinguistics (Kuhl, 2007) demonstrates that the neural substrates
of language processing are profoundly sensitive to social-contextual
variables, while variationist sociolinguistics (Eckert, 2012) reveals
unexpected systematicity in socially conditioned alternations. These
empirical findings problematize traditional distinctions between
competence and performance, suggesting instead that linguistic
knowledge is constituted through dialogic interaction (Linell, 2009).
The acquisition process itself appears to involve continuous feedback
loops between cognitive predispositions and social-environmental
inputs (Clark, 2016), rendering artificial any strict separation
between "internal" linguistic system and "external" linguistic
practice.
This framework challenges us to re-examine South Asian languages-with
their exceptional diversity and complex sociolinguistic ecologies - as
critical sites for unifying theoretical and empirical approaches. The
theme "Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to South Asian Languages"
seeks work that leverages the region’s multilingualism, contact
phenomena, and grammatical innovations to test and refine a
comprehensive theory of language that accounts for its dual nature as
both a cognitive system and a social practice by recognizing that
linguistic structure emerges from, and is fundamentally shaped by,
recurrent patterns of interaction moving beyond the system/use divide
by treating language as a complex adaptive system that is
simultaneously psychologically real and socially constituted.
Call for Papers:
We invite abstract submissions from postgraduate students and research
scholars (MPhil/PhD) for oral and poster presentations. We seek
contributions presenting original, unpublished research spanning the
full spectrum of linguistic science, from theoretical to applied
domains. Submissions are accepted through CMT
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SCONLI2026/Submission/Index.
Submissions are particularly encouraged across the core and
interdisciplinary domains, but not limited to:
 - Phonetics and/or Phonology
 - Morphology
 - Syntax
 - Semantics
 - Sentence Processing
 - Sociolinguistics
 - Psycholinguistics and/or Neurolinguistics
 - Historical Linguistics
 - Typology
 - Language Acquisition
 - Language documentation
 - Computational Linguistics
 - Cognitive Linguistics
 - Sign Language Studies
Abstract Submission:
Abstracts must be anonymous. Abstracts must be limited to 800–1200
words, anything outside this range will not be considered; other
details – two A4 size with 1-inch (2.54 cm) margin on all four sides
with a font size of 11pt in Times New Roman font. Only references
and/or large graphs, tables, pictures, and figures can be on a third
page. The third page should have no other text. Data should be
interspersed throughout the abstract. Authors may be involved in at
most two abstracts, and may be the sole author of at most one
abstract. Submit the abstract in PDF format only; please follow APA
7th edition guidelines for referencing.
Please note that scholars cannot send papers jointly authored with
faculty members. However, collaborations between scholars are
welcomed.
Refer to the website for additional details.



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