Call for Abstracts

THEME FOR ABSTRACTS 

We wish for a high degree of participant involvement and encourage critical enquiry and debate related to the Indian Linguistic Area, shared linguistic features across language families, cultural heritages and common linguistic expressions of Indian languages. The seminar will entice language experts, researchers and policymakers in this three-day event to throw light on multidisciplinary themes: ranging from the core areas of linguistics to India as a linguistic area, language contact, linguistic convergence and divergence, areal linguistics, language maintenance and shift, language variation and change, languages and dialects in contact, linguistic diversity and language harmony, typological features, intangible cultural heritages and common linguistic expressions of Indian languages, discourse markers, multilingual education (MLE), translanguaging and second language teaching, language policy and planning, stylistics and literary studies, historical linguistics, language technology, translation, applied linguistics, linguistic innovation and borrowing and structure of lesser-known languages etc.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations in the above-mentioned areas. The abstract should be limited to 500 words (excluding references, data, figures, and tables), typed in MS Word/PDF, in Times New Roman, 12-point font, and single-spaced with one-inch margins on all sides. The abstract must be anonymous; it must not include the name(s) of the authors, affiliations, designations, etc. The abstract should not exceed two A4-sized pages. 

The authors must indicate their choice for oral or poster presentations. Only one single-authored or joint-authored abstract will be considered for the peer-reviewed process. The seminar and the workshop will be offline; however, a few abstracts/papers may be selected for online presentation. Participants may select their preferred mode of presentation (online or offline) in the Google Form. Any change of mode will not be entertained later. The best oral and paper presentations shall be awarded. The abstracts and other queries should be sent to the email ID ilaesfalf2025@gmail.com. After submitting the abstracts/papers, one must complete the required details in the Google form. The link is given HERE. Filling out the Google Form is MANDATORY after sending the abstract through email. 

STEPS FOR SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT: Send abstracts to ilaesfalf2025@gmail.com and fill out the Google Form provided HERE.

Participants selected for paper or poster presentations will be duly notified through email by 17 February 2025. The author(s) whose abstracts are accepted for offline/online presentation must reply to our email confirming their participation at our email id ilaesfalf2025@gmail.com, latest by 20 February 2025 and must complete the registration process by 25 February 2025 with an authentic payment receipt for the Seminar, failing which participation and poster/paper presentation will not be considered in ILAESFALF-2025. The payment and other details are provided on the Registration page.