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28th
ALL INDIA CONFERENCE OF LINGUISTS
Banaras Hindu University
2nd-4th November, 2006 |
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Richa Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi |
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The 28th All India Conference of Linguists organized by Department of Linguistics, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, was held at Faculty of Arts, BHU, from 2nd-4th November, 2006. The conference was inaugurated by Prof. S.N. Pandey, Dean of Faculty of Arts, BHU. Prof. Rajesh Sachdeva, Deputy Director, CIIL, addressing the inaugural function drew attention to the tremendous threats that languages are facing in the contemporary world, and stressed on the linguistic survey of India. The former Director of CIIL, Prof. D.P. Pattanayak highlighted the development of modern linguistics in India. Prof. Raj Nath Bhat, the HoD and organising secretary, highlighting the significance of the conference, extended a warm welcome to the Indian and foreign scholars.
In his presidential address, Prof. K. Rangan, President, Linguistic Society of India spoke on “Exploring the Notion of Economy in Linguistic Theory.” He examined the notion of economy from different perspectives and its utility in evaluating two or more grammars leading us to look at the notion of economy in terms of rules, and various movement constraints. He concluded by drawing attention to the need to apply the notion of economy to the concept of time. Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh, Director, CIIL, delivered the plenary talk at the conference on the draft proposal of the New Linguistic Survey of India, highlighting its aims and objectives.
Various papers on topics pertaining to the fields of sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, language and literature, language teaching, lexicography, translation, morphology, phonology and psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics were presented, in either Hindi or English, during parallel sessions by over 200 participants. Approximately 20 papers dealing with issues on various topics in the field of syntax and semantics such as case, agreement, relative clauses, transitives, causatives, passives, control, PRO, quantifiers etc in various languages such as Arabic, Hindi, Mizo, Ao, Bangla, EkeGusii, etc. were presented in the syntax-semantics session highlighting the problems and prospects of current linguistic theory in Asian languages mostly from the Indian subcontinent.
A valedictory function marked the conclusion of the conference. Souvenirs, which included the abstracts of the conference papers and the working draft of NLSI were also given to the participants. This was followed by the presentation of certificates to the participants. Earlier, the delegates were entertained to a cultural programmed.
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