A brief history of SALA (by Hans Henrich Hock with help from Alice Davison)
The foundation for SALA, the South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, was laid during the 1978 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The LSA that year held a “Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics”, organized by Hans Henrich Hock and Braj B. Kachru, with support from Yamuna Kachru and Rajeshwari Pandharipande. The Conference attracted many of the top South Asian linguists from both North America and South Asia, and the response was so positive that it was decided to offer similar meetings in the future. There was to be a series of “International Conferences on South Asia” and a series of meetings with more limited, North American scope, and thus SALA was born. Unfortunately, the tradition of international conferences was short-lived and ended after the third Conference, held 1982 in Mysore. As a consequence, there was an increasing tendency to broaden the scope of SALA beyond North America, with meetings in India (1997, 2005), the United Kingdom (1998), Germany (2001), and many other venues since then. (See the list of SALAs at the end of this page.)
From the beginning, SALA Roundtables were organized on an ad-hoc basis, without a formal organization behind them. The advantage has been that, even though the University of Illinois hosted the first three Roundtables, this was not interpreted as establishing a monopoly; and soon other institutions followed suit in hosting the Roundtables. The disadvantage is that there are no formal membership lists that can be drawn on for calls for papers, and there is no mechanism by which future host institutions can be easily identified. Nevertheless, through informal exchange of mailing lists and through a sufficiently large number of institutions volunteering to host SALA meeting, there has been an amazing and truly impressive succession of yearly meetings — only a few years (1996, 2000, 2007, 2012, and 2013) were without SALAs.
The first three meetings, held at the University of Illinois were organized by the same members of the UIUC Linguistics Department as the original Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics, with Hans Henrich Hock chairing the planning committee in 1979 and Yamuna Kachru in 1980 and 1981. After 1981, SALA began to be rotate between different universities, organized by local committees with support from national and international committees.
- 2019 INALCO, Paris
- 2018 University of Konstanz, Germany
- 2017 Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
- 2016 University of Lisbon, Portugal
- 2015 University of Lancaster, UK
- 2014 University of Hyderabad, India
- 2011 Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India
- 2009 Northern Texas University, Denton
- 2008 South Asia Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin
- 2006 Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India
- 2005 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 2004 SUNY, Stony Brook,
- 2003 University of Texas, Austin
- 2002 University of Iowa, Iowa City
- 2001 University of Konstanz, Germany
- 1999 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 1998 York University, UK
- 1997 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- 1995 University of Texas, Austin
- 1994 University of Pennsylvania
- 1993 University of Iowa, Iowa City
- 1992 Stanford University
- 1991 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 1990 University of California, Berkeley
- 1989 University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1988 University of Washington, Seattle
- 1987 Cornell and Syracuse Universities
- 1986 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 1985 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 1984 University of Texas, Austin
- 1983 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 1982 Syracuse University, Syracuse
- 1981 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 1980 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- 1979 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The 36th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-36) will be held at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Invited Speakers:
- Rajesh Bhatt
- Vnetta Dayal
- John Peterson
- Tanmoy Bhattacharya
- Ayesha Kidwai
- Dr. Seng hung Lee
- Hans Henrick Hock
Call for Papers
Abstracts are invited for 30 minutes (20+10) talks and posters, as per the following details:
Submissions (Talks and Posters):
The main conference sessions will involve 30-minute talks (20 min. + 10 min. discussion), and poster presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.
Submission Specifications:
We invite abstracts for individual presentations, posters as well as workshop proposals. We welcome submissions concerning research on South Asian languages pertaining to one or more of the following topics, but not limited to:
Phonetics and Phonology
Morphology and Syntax
Semantics and Pragmatics
Comparative and typological studies
Cognitive and psycholinguistic studies
Language contact
Historical linguistics and language change
Translation studies
Computational linguistics
Corpus and quantitative linguistic studies
Language endangerment, preservation and documentation
Language learning, acquisition, and teaching
Language policies and planning
All abstracts should be submitted in word and PDF format not exceeding 500 words. Abstracts should be no more than one page of text, with an additional page for figures, examples, and references. The abstract should be in 12 pt. with 2 inches’ margin on all 4 sides and include a title. Omit author name(s) and affiliation(s) (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-reference. The language of the conference is English and all abstracts must be written in English.
| Timetable | |
| Abstract submission deadline : | Jan. 15 2020, 23:59 GMT |
| Abstract submission deadline: | January 15,2020 |
| Notification of acceptance: | March 30 ,2020 |
| Conference: | July. 8-10, 2020 |
Abstracts should be submitted through easy chair i.e. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sala36. If you have any problem you can contact to:
Dubi Nanda Dhakal (dndhakal@gmail.com)
Bhim Lal Gautam (gautambhim@rocketmail.com)
Organizing committee:
Professor Dubi Nanda Dhakal, CDL TU – Chair
Professor Dan raj Regmi, CDL TU
Dr. Tanmoy Bhattacharya DU, India
Dr. Samar Sinha, SU, India
Bhim Lal Gautam- CDL TU – Secretary
International Advisory Committee
Professor Hans Henrich Hock
Professor K. A. Jayaseelan
Professor Yogendra Prasad Yadava
Professor Udaya Narayan Singh
Professor KV Subbarao
Professor Rama Kant Agnihotri
Professor Yasawanta Ch. Singh
Professor Sarmad Hussain
Professor Tarique Rahaman
Professor Isao Honda
Professor John Peterson
Professor Mirium Butt
Professor George van driem
Professor David Bradley
Professor Scott DeLancey
Professor Annie Montaut
Professor Paul Kiparsky
Professor Anju Saksena
Professor Anvita Abbi
Professor Balthasar Bickel
Professor Elena Bashir
Professor Carol Genetti
Professor Anoop Mahajan
Professor Rajesh Bhatt
Professor Aditi Lahiri
Professor Joseph Bayers
Professor Madhav P Pokharel
Professor C M Bandhu
Professor Kristine Hilberdrant
Dr Anetta Kopecka
Professor Tej Ratna Kansakar
Registration
You can register for SALA-36 online i.e. through bank draft, or registration fee can be paid on the spot. The workshops, lunches and confernce dinner are included in the registration fee. Registration also includes bag, notecopy, pen,3 lunches, tea during the conference and a cocktail dinner.
The breakdown of registration fee is given below:
- Foreign Participants
| Registration | Regular | Student* |
| Early Bird (until May 2, 2020) | 100 | 80 |
| Normal (May 3 onwards, 2020 ) | 120 | 100 |
- South Asian Participations
| Registration | Regular | Student* |
| Early Bird (until May 2, 2020) | NRs 6000 | NRs 5000 |
| Normal (May 3 onwards, 2020 ) | NRs 7000 | NRs 6000 |
C Nepalese Participants
| Registration | Regular | Student* |
| Early Bird (until May 2, 2020) | NRs 3500 | NRs 3000 |
| Normal (May 3 onwards, 2020 ) | NRs 4000 | NRs 3500 |
* The students have to produce valid identity card at the time of registration.
SALA 36 National Organizing Committee
Professor Dubi Nanda Dhakal – Chair
Professor Dan Raj Regmi
Bhim Lal Gautam-Secretary
SALA 36 Scientific Committee
Professor Dubi Nanda Dhakal – Chair
Professor Dan Raj Regmi
Professor John Peterson, Keil, Germany
Professor Yogendra P Yadava, Nepal Academy, Nepal
Dr. Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Universiy of Delhi, India
Dr. Samar Sinha, Sikkim University, India
Professor Anju Saxena, Uppsala, Sweden
Bhim Lal Gautam-Secretary