WSC Canberra 18-22 January 2021: Section of Linguistics
Represented at all major universities in the world, Linguistics is one of the most widely recognized branches of science.  It is also the scientific discipline where solid and clearly identifiable pioneering achievements of the Sanskrit tradition from the first millennium before CE onwards (in the form of the linguistic analyses of the Padakāras, Pāṇini’s grammar, Bhartrhari’s linguistic theories, etc.) are most widely recognized. Abstracts of papers in the broad field of Sanskrit Linguistics are invited preferably in English because of its general accessibility, but also, in view of its long-standing status as academic language in linguistics, in Sanskrit. All abstracts proposed for the Section of Linguistics will be judged in the same transparent way according to the originality of the contribution, the indication of evidence in the form of linguistic observations and citation of sources, the theoretical framework, and, if applicable, a summary of the argument. Papers which primarily deal with philological problems or with non-linguistic topics will be referred to one of the other Sections of the conference.  
Suggested areas of research:
- linguistics of Sanskrit
- linguistics of Vedic Sanskrit
- linguistics of epic, hybrid, classical Sanskrit
- sociolinguistics of Sanskrit and its relationship with Prakrit, Pali, Apabhraṁśa, mediaeval and modern Indian languages.
- didactics of Sanskrit
- linguistic, grammatical, morphological, syntactic, semantic issues in Sanskrit (... in Vedic, in epic ... Sanskrit)
- linguistic theories in Sanskrit works
- Sanskrit and the history of linguistics