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South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA) is a prestigious annual conference for linguistics in this field. This conference was founded by Prof. Hans Henrich Hock in 1978 in the Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Since then, SALA is hosted each year at different locations around the world.

This year, SALA 39 was organized by the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, Adam Mickiewicz University at Collegium Novum in Poznań, Poland from 29 September to 1 October 2025.

The conference covered a wide range of topics in linguistics, including (but not limited to) phonetics, morphosyntax, typology, and semantics. The keynote lecture by Prof. Miriam Butt from the University of Konstanz on Modern Indo-Aryan Case Marking set the tone for the event and stimulated engaging discussions throughout the sessions.

On the third day, Shravani Patil and Farhat Jabeen from project A03 presented their talk titled “Variability in (Non-)Canonical Word Order and Focus Marking in Hindi/Urdu”. The presentation examined the interface between word order and information structure - an important area of research within project A03. It demonstrated how new information focus is marked in Hindi/Urdu and highlighted variability in speakers’ word order preferences in marking focus.

The talk was followed by a brief discussion session. The feedback proved to be important not only in terms of further development of this study but also served as an interesting discussion point on the use of differential strategies to mark different information structure phenomena.

Link to the Abstracts

Shravani Patil © Hridaya Ajgaonkar

    Farhat Jabeen © Sascha Hermannski, SFB 1646                           Shravani Patil © Sascha Hermannski, SFB 1646