36.2668, Confs: Discourse Particles in South Asian Languages (India)

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Subject: 36.2668, Confs: Discourse Particles in South Asian Languages (India)

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Date: 07-Sep-2025
From: Deepak Alok [alokdeepak at iitd.ac.in]
Subject: Discourse Particles in South Asian Languages


Discourse Particles in South Asian Languages
Short Title: DiPSAL
Theme: Discourse particles at the syntax–semantics-pragmatics-prosody
interface

Date: 22-Dec-2025 - 23-Dec-2025
Location: New Delhi, India
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/dipsal/home

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax;
Typology
Language Family(ies): South Aslian

Submission Deadline: 07-Oct-2025

Discourse particles are a key component of natural language,
connecting structural and semantic content with speaker stance,
discourse structuring, and pragmatic meaning. They have been described
as elements that contribute little to truth-conditional content but
are crucial for managing interaction and guiding interpretation. While
particles in some languages have received sustained attention, there
remains a lot to be learnt about their role in natural language more
generally.
This workshop aims to foreground discourse particles by focusing on
questions like the following:
 - How do discourse particles interact with syntax, semantics,
prosody, and information structure?
 - To what extent do discourse particles reveal universal principles
of discourse organization, and where do they highlight
language-specific strategies?
South Asia is a typologically diverse linguistic area, with many
well-studied languages as well as many understudied languages. These
languages are known to be rich in discourse particles. By bringing
together scholars working on languages of South Asia, this workshop
seeks to broaden the empirical foundation for the study of discourse
particles and refine theoretical accounts of their role at the
grammar–discourse interface.
The workshop will take place at the Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi, in New Delhi, India, from December 22 - 23, 2025.



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