Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 17
Date: March 19-21, 2027
Location: UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
Contact: FASAL-17
Contact Email: fasal17umass@gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/fasal17/home
Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 17 (FASAL 17) will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. FASAL reaches out to all researchers that do high-quality linguistic study of any South Asian language adopting a wide range of methodologies. We welcome submissions on South Asian languages in areas including, but not limited to phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and historical linguistics. We particularly encourage submissions from researchers located in South Asia.
Invited Speakers:
Deepak Alok (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Ayesha Kidwai (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Kevin Ryan (Harvard University)
Sandhya Sundaresan (Stony Brook University)
Submission Site: https://openreview.net/group?id=umass.edu/University_of_Massachusetts/2027/FASAL
Specifications/formatting:
Font no smaller than 11pt Times New Roman or similar; 1-inch/2.5cm margins; 2 pages, letter size or A4, including references, examples and title; Examples and graphics interspersed with the body of the abstract rather than collected at the end.
Key dates:
Submissions open: November 5, 2026
Submission deadline: December 15, 2026 11:59pm anywhere on Earth
Notifications sent: January 23, 2027
Submissions open: November 5, 2026 - December. 15, 2026
Abstract review period: December. 15, 2026 - January. 15, 2027