36.3434, Confs: 40th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (Germany)

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Subject: 36.3434, Confs: 40th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (Germany)

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Date: 10-Nov-2025
From: Farhat Jabeen [farhat.jabeen at uni-bielefeld.de]
Subject: 40th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable


40th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable
Short Title: SALA-40
Theme: Creative Interpretation of Variability

Date: 09-Sep-2026 - 11-Sep-2026
Location: Bielefeld, Germany
Contact: Farhat Jabeen
Contact Email: sala40 at uni-bielefeld.de
Meeting URL:
https://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/jhartmann25/cgi/sala2026/index.php

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Feb-2026

The central theme of this conference is Creative Interpretation of
Variability, pertaining to the enrichment of intrinsic variation found
in languages. We especially encourage submissions pertaining to this
theme. We also invite submissions on any aspect of South Asian
languages and Linguistics.
A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest is as follows:
 - Comparative and typological studies
 - Computational Linguistics
 - Corpus and quantitative Linguistic studies
 - Descriptive studies
 - Dialect studies
 - Endangerment of minority languages
 - Historical Linguistics and philology
 - Language acquisition
 - Language contact
 - Language policies
 - Language technology
 - Morphology and Syntax
 - Phonetics and Phonology
 - Semantic-pragmatic interface
 - Semantics and Pragmatics
 - Sociolinguistics
 - Syntax-prosody interface
 - Syntax-semantics interface
 - Syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface
Invited Speakers:
Indranil Dutta (Jadavpur University, India)
Sandhaya Sundaresan (Stony Brook University, USA)
Abstract Submission Guidelines:
Single page (A4, 12pt, 1-inch margins) anonymised abstracts should be
written in English and submitted as a pdf on
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SALA2026. Examples, figures,
tables, and references may be added on the second page. All the
abstracts will go through double-blind peer-review.
Contact:
Please send inquiries about the conference to: sala40 at uni-bielefeld.de
Organizing committee:
Farhat Jabeen
Jutta Maria Hartmann
Petra Wagner
Ákos Buza
Shravani Patil



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