22- 23 FEBRUARY 2019
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference will be organized under the University Grants Commission sponsored Project “Study and research in Indigenous and endangered languages during XII plan". The project was given to school of languages and linguistics initially on Sept 9, 2015 and after subsequent ratification, commenced from April 2016 and as per its current commitment it is likely to continue till March 2021. The aim as per the proposal presented to the UGC is to document and build resources on twenty endangered and minor lesser known languages and communities across West Bengal, India. The resources include recordings, images, textual data, linguistic data, anthropological data, language vitality data and so on. Based on this, the resources will be archived on one hand and on the other grammars, dictionaries, reports and segmented audio-visual files will be made available through web.
We invite submissions on the following and related sub-themes:
Abstract submission deadline : 21 September 2018 (Friday)
Notification of acceptance : 3rd December 2018
Submission of full paper : 31 December 2018 (Monday)
An edited volume of the papers, key note address and plenary sessions will be published by UGC SRIELI Project team, JU. The concerned authors will have to modify their papers by incorporating the feedback,observations, comments and suggestions that come out during the presentation.