Speakers

Keynote speaker:

Padma Shri Prof Anvita Abbi,
B.B. Borkar Chair, Goa University

Prof. Anvita Abbi is a distinguished linguist known internationally for her work on Indian languages, language documentation, and linguistic diversity. Her pioneering research on the Great Andamanese languages has made a major contribution to the documentation of endangered and minority languages. A recipient of the Padma Shri and the Kenneth Hale Award, she has also contributed extensively to language policy, field linguistics, and the documentation of South Asian languages.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Prof Sonal Kulkarni

Deccan College, Pune

Prof. Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi is a prominent linguist associated with Deccan College, Pune, with research interests in sociolinguistics, language contact, language variation, and typology. Her work has particularly examined Marathi and multilingual contact situations, including morphosyntactic variation in contact varieties. She has also contributed significantly to research on language contact and sociolinguistic variation in India.

Prof Pritha Chandra

IIT Delhi

Prof. Pritha Chandra is a Professor of Theoretical Linguistics and Cognitive Science at IIT Delhi. Her research focuses on syntactic theory, linguistic typology, language variation and change, biolinguistics, and language politics. She has a particular interest in underexplored, indigenous, non-standard, and heritage language varieties, making her work especially relevant to questions of linguistic diversity and variation.

Prof Nazir Ahmad Dhar

Former Head, Department of Linguistics, University of Kashmir

Prof. Nazir Ahmad Dhar is a senior linguist and former head at the Department of Linguistics, University of Kashmir, and has made significant contributions to the study of Kashmiri and other languages of the Himalayan region. His research and supervision have covered areas such as sociolinguistics, language structure, language variation, and linguistic description. He has also supervised research on Kashmiri pronominal systems, bilingualism, and the linguistic diversity of the region.

Prof Niladri Sekhar Dash

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash is Professor and Head of the Linguistic Research Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research spans corpus linguistics, language technology, language documentation, digital lexicography, computational linguistics, and Indian language resources. He has worked extensively on Bengali and other Indian languages, including corpus development, digital dictionaries, WordNet, machine translation, and language documentation. Prof. Dash was also an International Visiting Fellow of the British Academy, UK.

Prof Pradeep Kumar Das

JNU, Delhi

Prof. Pradeep Kumar Das is a senior linguist at the Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research has focused extensively on grammatical agreement, Hindi-Urdu and its varieties, morphosyntax, and linguistic variation. His work on agreement across a range of Indo-Aryan languages makes him an important scholar for discussions of grammatical structure and variation in the Bharatiya linguistic area.

Prof M J Warsi

Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

Prof. Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi is a Professor and Head at the Department of Linguistics at Aligarh Muslim University, with extensive teaching and research experience in Urdu linguistics, sociolinguistics, language and communication, and applied linguistics.. A recipient of several academic honours and grants, including the James E. McLeod Faculty Award and the Pravasi Bihari Saman Puraskar, he has authored and edited eight books and published over 40 research papers. His work on Mithilanchal Urdu has made an important contribution to documenting linguistic diversity in Bihar.

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