Call for Papers

“The LINGUINDIC Conference: Modern Linguistics and Ancient India” will take place on 12–14 June 2025 at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK. We invite submission of abstracts in any subject related to Ancient Indian languages and linguistics, addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Ancient Indian contributions to linguistic thought (broadly conceived, including e.g. Pāṇinian vyākaraṇa, non-Pāṇinian vyākaraṇa, nirvacana, śikṣā, nirukta, Mīmāṃsā, Nyāya, etc.).
• Modern linguistic analyses (in any field of linguistics) of phenomena in ancient Indian languages (Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali, Prakrit), for example compounding (samāsa), case (kāraka), etc.
• Work that interfaces modern linguistics and the ancient Indian linguistic traditions;
• for example, work that explores the relevance of ancient Indian linguistic analyses for modern linguistics,
• or work that offers a modern linguistic take on a topic originally analysed by the ancient Indian linguistic tradition.

Presentations will last 20 minutes, with an additional 10 mins for discussion.

Abstract Submission Guidelines

Anonymized abstracts in PDF format should be sent to linguindic@ames.ox.ac.uk by the 31 January 2025. Abstracts should be no more than 1 page excluding tables/figures and references.

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2025
Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2025

For further updates please visit the conference website: https://www.linguindic.com/conference/. For any queries please write to linguindic@ames.ox.ac.uk

Organizing Committee

John Lowe
Adriana Molina-Muñoz
Yiming Shen
Jim Benson

Administrative Support

Diana Rodriguez-Perez