Linguistics

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Posted by Ayesha Kidwai

Courses taught (1996–)

Masters-level

  • LE401L Introduction to Linguistics
  • LE404L Grammatical Theories and Models
  • LE405L Field Methods
  • LE411L Morphological and Syntactic Analysis
  • LE416L Semantics: Theories and Analysis
  • LE418L Readings in Linguistics
  • LE461L Current Syntax: Theory and Analysis
  • LE462L Chomskyan Syntax: Theory and Analysis
  • LE465L Writing Grammars
  • LE474L Issues in Linguistic Theory
  • LE485L Language and Gender
  • LE486L Generative Morphology
  • LE487L Generative Syntax-I
  • LE488L Generative Syntax-II
  • LE406L Seminar
  • LE601 Research Methodology
  • LE615 Readings in Linguistics
  • LE623 Theoretical Issues in Syntax and Semantics LE669 Minimalist Syntax- I
  • LE613 Seminar

PhD-level

  • LE601 Research Methodology
  • LE615 Readings in Linguistics
  • LE623 Theoretical Issues in Syntax and Semantics
  • LE669 Minimalist Syntax
  • LE613 Seminar

Select teaching handouts and resources

Resources for Research Methodology teaching

Handbook for Research Methodology courses

Talk at an RM workshop

How To…

Read an article and build an annotated bibliography
Write an academic book review

How To…

Write an abstract for submission to conferences
Write a synopsis in CL

UGC E-PG Pathshala course units on Grammatical Categories

1. Parts of Speech in the Grammatical Traditions
2. From Parts of Speech to Form-Classes
3. From Form-Classes to Features
4. A Framework for Grammatical Features I
5. A Framework for Grammatical Features-II
6. [NUMBER] and [PERSON]
7. Nominal Classification
8. Nominal Classification in SA languages
9. Demonstratives
10. Semantic features of NPs
11. Semantic features of NPs in SA Languages
12. Semantic features of verbs

Resources for talking about English in India

Features of Indian Englishes
Some Notes on the World Englishes project and Indian English
English vs. Indian English vs. English
Understanding Hinglish

Misc. Teaching Handouts for non-linguists

Feminist research on gender and language (slides)
Feminist research on gender and language (text)
Beginning Fieldwork
Beginning Morphosyntactic Analysis
Understanding Word Order

PhD and MPhil supervision

Posted by Ayesha Kidwai

PhD (ongoing)

  • Benika Tinkari, Tense, Aspect, Mood and Evidentiality in Western Himalayish: A study of three languages Jyunkhu lo, Kuti lo and Tinkar lo spoken in the border villages of the Byans valley
  • Yangchen Roy, Exploring Anaphora Binding and its Acquisition: The View from Bangla and Malayalam
  • Anjali Nair, Roots in Malayalam
  • Nupur Asher, Agreement Strategies with Hindi-Urdu Conjoined NPs

M.Phil. (ongoing)

  • Aseema Karandikar, The postnominal H marker in Marathi 
  • Opala Hajeya, Agree and Ergative Valuation in Assamese

PhD (completed)

  1. 2022: Raj Laxmi Singh, The Interaction of Case and Aspect: A Comparative Study of Hindi and Nepali (submitted, viva voce awaited).
  2. 2022: Rajamathangi S., Elliptical phenomena in Spoken Tamil
  3. 2021: Ojaswee Bhalla, ‘to’ marked XPs in Hindi
  4. 2021: Gibu Sabu M., Verbal Particles in Malayalam
  5. 2021: Enakshi Nandi, Embedding Subversion and Sexual Identity: The Grammar and Use of ‘Ulti’, The Secret Language of the Koti Community in Bengal
  6. 2021: Kumari Mamta, A Typology of Numeral Systems in South Asian Languages
  7. 2021: Shreya Mehta, The Realization of Tense, Aspect and Mood in the Morphology of Select Languages of Himachal Pradesh
  8. 2019: Lalit Rajkumar, Information Structure Related Doubling in Meiteilon
  9. 2019: R. Karthick Narayanan, Maintenance of minority languages of Nilgiri district, Tamilnadu: A Case Study of Toda and Kota
  10. 2018: Anindita Chatterjee, Everyday Talk and Gendered Labour: An Ethnography of action in interaction between domestic servants and Middle-class Bengali women in Kolkata and Delhi
  11. 2017: Benu Pareek, Nominal Features in Hindi Language Acquisition: A Study of Agreement and Modification
  12. 2017: Hima S., A Generative Typology of Dravidian Adjectives
  13. 2016: S. Moumita Dey, Categorization of Light Verbs in Bangla, Hindi, Malayalam: A Study in the First Phase Syntax
  14. 2015: Atanu Saha, Reciprocal Constructions in Meitei and Nyishi
  15. 2015: Mustafa Ahmed al-Humari, Conflation in Arabic Motion Events
  16. 2014: Ritesh Kumar, Politeness in Hindi Online Texts: Pragmatic and Computational Aspects
  17. 2012: Samar Sinha, A Grammar of Indian Sign Language
  18. 2011: M. G. Lalith Ananda, Clausal Complementation in Sinhala
  19. 2008: Richa, Unaccusatives, Unergatives and Causatives in Hindi-Urdu
  20. 2008: David Ogoti Ongarora, Bantu Morphosyntax: A Study of EkeGusii.

Research supervision: MPhil

  1. 2022: Sakshi Singh, Agree with v: Objective Case in Haryanvi (submitted, viva voce awaited).
  2. 2018: Bailochan Naik, A Digital Lexicon of Complex Predicates in Koshli
  3. 2018: Anjali Nair, Temporal Inflections in Malayalam Verbs
  4. 2018: Nupur Asher, A Generative Account of Conjunct Agreement in Hindi-Urdu
  5. 2015: Shreya Mehta, Verbal Inflection in Gaddi: A Paradigm-Based Approach
  6. 2015: Kumari Mamta, The Morphosyntax of Counting Systems
  7. 2015: Benika Tinkari, A Descriptive Grammar of Tinkar lo
  8. 2015: Kanshouwa Susie, Descriptive Grammar of Maring
  9. 2015: Nisha Anand, A Sociolinguistic Study of the Use of Indian Sign Language
  10. 2014: Pori Saikia, The Acquisition of Assamese Classifiers
  11. 2013: Shiladitya Bhattacharya, Scope-Marking Structures and Bangla Wh-Questions: A Formal Analysis in the vein of Indirect Dependency Approach
  12. 2012: Janani Kandhadai, (In)Definiteness in Tamil
  13. 2012: Hima S., Focus in Malayalam
  14. 2012: Gurujegan M., The Fine Structure of Tamil Path Expressions
  15. 2012: Deepak Alok, A Language without Articles: The case of Magahi
  16. 2011: Oinam Nganthoibi, Classification and Ordering of Verbal Suffixes in Meiteilon
  17. 2010: H. T. Zuali, Definite and Indefinite Descriptions in Mizo
  18. 2008: M. G. Lalith Ananda, The Cleft Construction in Sinhala
  19. 2008: Gibu Sabu M., A Syntactico-Semantic Exposition of Malayalam Explicator Compound verbs
  20. 2008: Aparna Mukherjee, Evidentiality: The case of Bangla ‘naki ’ 
  21. 2008: Smita Joseph, Sex vs. Gender: Biology, Society, and Language
  22. 2006: Anindita Chatterjee, Gendered Spaces: A Study of the Narratives in the Lakshmi Puja awarded
  23. 2003: Samar Sinha, A Skeletal Grammar of Indian Sign Language
  24. 2003: Richa, Possessive Reflexives and Pronominals in Hindi–Urdu and Indian Sign Language
  25. 2003: Rosmin Mathew, Double Objects in Malayalam: A Minimalist Analysis
  26. 2001: Aarti Venkataraman, Positional Focus in Tamil
  27. 2001: Ashish Mehta, Definiteness, Specificity, and Genericity in Gujarati
  28. 2000: Liza Joseph, Clefts in Malayalam
  29. 2000: Pritha Chandra, Dative Subjects in Hindi: A Minimalist Study
  30. 2000: Rachna Sinha, The Extended Projection Principle in Universal Grammar: Expletives in Hindi
  31. 2000: Priyanka Bhattacharya, Classifiers in Bangla: A Minimalist Account
  32. 2000: Soheli Kar, Speaking in two Tongues: the Status of the Hindi–English Mixed Code in Radio Programming
  33. 1999: Mahalakshmi, Code–Mixing and Code–Switching in Tamil English