South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA)
Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore,
6-8 January 2011.

AIMS
The South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable 29 aims at spreading a deepened analytical awareness of language in general and of South Asian languages in particular, at a spurt of activity and work on South Asian languages, reflecting the fact that the study of languages is one of the great intellectual success stories of our times.

THRUST AREAS
The conference will cover all areas of general linguistic interest which focus on most recent
advances in different areas of South Asian language and linguistics. Encouraged are papers (written in English) on substantial, original and unpublished research, or panel proposals from diverse frameworks and especially those with interdisciplinary focus, including but not limited to (sorted alphabetically):
· Developments in different theoretical models
· Discourse analysis
· Endangered language documentation
· English in South Asia
· Indian Grammatical Tradition
· Language and Literature
· Language Ideology and Language Policy
· Language Pedagogy
· Language Planning
· Language Teaching And Testing
· Language Technology
· Lexicography and Lexicology
· Linguistic Typology
· Literacy Studies
· Machine Translation
· Multilingualism and Language Maintenance
· Natural Language Processing
· Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
· Translation Studies

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Prof. Peri Bhaskararao
Title: From Speech Signal to Morphemes: Approach from Speech Corpora of South Asian Languages

PLENARY SESSIONS AND SPEAKERS

· Grammatical Structures/Analyses of under-analyzed languages of South Asia – Prof. K.V. Subbarao
· Ancient Dravidian languages and indigenous grammatical traditions –
 Prof. Bh Krishnamurthy
· Sanskrit grammatical tradition – Prof. P. S. Subramanyam
· Nilgiri languages – Prof. Peri Bhaskararao
· Language contact in South Asia – Prof. Hans Henrich Hock
· Multilingualism and multilingual education – Prof. Rajesh Sachdeva