Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, Karnataka, India, is all set to host the 29th SALA conference from 6th – 8th January, 2011.
Previously, CIIL organized the 26th SALA with Kannada University, Hampi and it was held for 3 days from 19-21 December 2006.
CIIL was established to co-ordinate the development of Indian Languages, to bring about the essential unity of Indian languages through scientific studies, Promote inter-disciplinary research, contribute to mutual enrichment of languages, and thus contribute towards emotional integration of people of India.
CIIL is situated in Mysore, the cultural capital and heritage city of Karnataka State in India. It is the city of Palaces situated in the southern tip of Karnataka and the third biggest town in the state. It gets the name from the legendary demon King Mahishasura, who once lived here and was vanquished in the battle by Goddess Chamundeshwari. Mysore was under the regime of the Ganga kings till the 10th century, followed by the Cholas, Hoysalas and the Vijayanagara kings. It was the capital of Wodeyars from 1399 till the conquest of Srirangapatna by Raja Wodeyar.
Mysore's most famous festival is the 10-day Dasara in October-November when the entire city gives itself up to celebrations that include a majestic procession, dance, music and a torch light parade.
Mysore houses one of the oldest universities in the country viz University of Mysore. It also has a host of scientific and research institutes: Central Food Technology and Research Institute (CFTRI), ASI, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing(AIISH), Eco Agri Research Foundation, Anantha Research Foundation, RMP (Baba Atomic Research Centre - BARC), Central Sericulture Research Institute, and so on.
One of the pleasures of Mysore city for a serious linguist is Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL).
About SALA
The foundation for SALA, the South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, was laid during the 1978 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It consisted in a Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics, organized by Hans Henrich Hock and Braj B. Kachru, with support from Yamuna Kachru and Rajeshwari Pandharipande. The Conference attracted many of the top South Asian linguists from both North America and South Asia, and the response was so positive that it was decided to offer similar meetings in the future. There was to be a series of International Conferences on South Asia and a series of meetings with more limited, North American scope — SALA.
The tradition of international conferences was short-lived and ended after the third Conference, held 1982 in Mysore. As a consequence, increasing tendency developed to broaden the scope of SALA beyond North America, and SALA meetings were organized in India (1997, 2006), in the United Kingdom (1998), and in Germany (2001).
From the beginning, SALA Roundtables were organized on an ad-hoc basis, without a formal organization behind them. The advantage has been that, even though the University of Illinois hosted the first three Roundtables, this was not interpreted as establishing a monopoly; and soon other institutions followed suit in hosting the Roundtables. The disadvantage is that there are no formal membership lists that can be drawn on for calls for papers, and there is no mechanism by which future host institutions can be easily identified. Nevertheless, through informal exchange of mailing lists and through a sufficiently large number of institutions volunteering to host SALA meetings (sometimes with some coaxing), there has been an amazing and truly impressive succession of yearly meetings — only four years (1996, 2000, 2007, 2010) were without SALAs.
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