Call for Papers

The central theme of this conference is Creative Interpretation of Variability. We especially encourage submissions pertaining to this theme. We also invite submissions in any aspect of South Asian languages and Linguistics.

A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest is as follows:

• Descriptive studies
• Comparative and typological studies
• Language contact
• Sociolinguistics
• Morphology and Syntax
• Semantics and Pragmatics
• Phonetics and Phonology
• Historical linguistics and philology
• Computational linguistics
• Corpus and quantitative linguistic studies
• Language acquisition
• Language policies
• Endangerment of minority languages

Abstract submission guidelines:

Single page (A4, 12pt font size and 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.

Information for presenters::

• TALKS:
  Talks will be scheduled for 15 minutes followed by 5 minutes for Q&A and change of speakers.


• POSTERS:
  TBA