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Title Dr. FirstName TANMOY LastName BHATTACHARYA PhotographDesignation ASSOCIATEPROFESSOR
Address CENTREFORADVANCEDSTUDIESINLINGUISTICSDEPARTMENTOFLINGUISTICS,ARTSFACULTYEXTENSION,UNIVERSITYOFDELHI,DELHI110007
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EducationalQualificationsDegree Institution YearPh.D. UniversityofLondon 1999Ph.D. HyderabadCentralUniversity 1996PG UniversityofDelhi 1985UG UniversityofDelhi 1982CareerProfileUniversityofDelhi,AssociateProfessor,2001-presentUniversitätLeipzig,ResearchScientist(Postdoctoral),2000–2001M.S.UniversityofBaroda,Lecturer,1993-97AdministrativeAssignmentsSuperintendentofExaminations,MAEntrance2014,2015,2016NodalOfficer(NEstudents)2014-15,2016Member,Artsfaculty,2015-2016MemberAnti-smokingcommittee,2015-16MemberAnti-raggingcommittee,2015-16Co-ordinator,EqualOpportunityCell,UniversityofDelhi,untilSept.,2011AreasofInterest/SpecializationSyntax,Semantics,Pragmatics,Psycholinguistics,SignLanguage,Gender,DisabilityandLanguageSubjectsTaughtPhonetics,AdvancedPhonology,LinguisticAnalysis,Morphology&Syntax,SyntacticVariation,FieldLinguistics&Dialectology,ComputationalLinguistics,Dissertation(Syntax),IntroductiontoTransformationGenerativeSyntax,IntermediateSyntax,AdvancedSyntax,CurrentTrendsinSyntax,FocusAreaStudies(Syntax/Discourse/Sociolinguistics/Psycholinguistics/Gender),ResearchMethodology,DisabilityandHumanRights.
ResearchGuidanceListagainsteachhead(Ifapplicable)
1. SupervisionofawardedDoctoralThesis:2. NguyenChiDuyKhuong,2009:SomeNon-ComplementStructuresinVietnamese
FacultyDetailsproformaforDUWeb-site
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3. SuranjanaBarua,2010:RevelationofSelfinLanguage:AConversationAnalysisofHindi-SpeakingCouples4. ThangjamHindustaniDevi,2014:InterfaceStrategiesandAdjuncts(Sept.2013)5. DriptaPiplai,2015:LanguageConflictandSyntacticVariation:AstudyoftheRajbanshiVerbFormsusedbyPrimarySchoolChildren(Feb.2014)6. HidamGaurshyamSingh,2015:TheSyntaxofWordOrderinIndo-PakistaniSignLanguage(March2014)7. AtreyeeSharma:TheRoleofWordOrderinParsing(February,2016)
28.SupervisionofDoctoralThesisSubmitted:
1. SantoshKumar:ASociolinguisticAnalysisofStereotype,Prejudice,andDiscriminationofGenderandDisabilityinTalkandText
2. DeepakKumar:SyntaxofRelativeClausesandRelativisabilityofArgumentsUnderprogress3. AndeshaMangla:TheRoleofIndianSignlanguageinDeafEducation4. PdmabatiAchom:TheSyntaxofModalityinMeeteilon5. AlfinaKhaidem:ClausalComplementationinMeeteilon
29.SupervisionofawardedM.Phil.dissertations1. ThangjamHindustaniDevi 2003 WhQuantificationinMeiteilon2. HamidulHaque 2003 BindingandPronominalsinBangla3. AtreyeeSharma 2004 ConstrualandReanalysisinAssamese4. NguyenChiDuyKhuong 2004 TheDPinVietnamese5. KamalKChaudhary2004 TopicandfocusinMaithilisyntax6. SuranjanaBarua2005ConversationaldominanceandgenderConstructionamongprimaryschoolchildren:Acasestudy7. ShitiMalhotra 2005 AsymmetryofObjectsandtheLarsonianVP-shellforHindi/Urdu8. PraveenPralayankar 2007 TheSyntaxofRelativeClausesinDramasofKalidasa9. Madhu 2008 ParsingofScramblingstructuresinHindi10. PriyankaBiswas 2009 TenseandAspectinBangla:SomeIssuesinSyntaxandSemantics11. PinkeyNainwani 2009 ConstraintsandInterventionEffectsinSindhi12. ShabnamAgarwal 2010 WhinBanglainaPrinciple-BasedParser13. HidamGaurshyamSingh2010 IncorporationinIndianSignLanguage14. RuchiJain 2010 ArgumentStructureinBundeli15. IshaniGuha 2011 ArgumentsandAdjuncts:ACaseofunification?16. DeepakKumar 2011 AgreementinAngika17. BidishaBhattacherjee2011ComplexPredicatesinBangla:AFirstPhaseSyntaxAccount18. KailadbuDaimai2011TheDPinLiangmaiwithspecialreferencetoClassifierConstructions19. SaifAbdulwahedJewad2011Partial/FullAgreementinArabicClauses:AMinimalistApproach20. N.SanatombiDevi2012TopicandFocusinMeiteilonSyntax21. ShwetaChandra2012AgreementinMagahiandPossessiveDPs22. LalitRajkumar2012NominalandVerbalHonorificMarkersinMeiteilon23. MarcinDadan:2013Negation,ItsConstituents,andPhaseTheory:DerivingNegativeConcordin
Polish24. NehaKulseshthra2013WhQuestionsinIndo-PakistaniSignLanguage25. ReenaAshem2014TheStructureoftheDPinMeiteilon26. SakshiBhatia2014TheGrammarofCodeSwitching27. AfinaKhaidem2014TheSyntaxofNon-finiteClausesinMeiteilon28. PadmabatiAchom2014TenseandAspectinManipuri29. MahimaGulati2014SluicinginHindi:APsycholinguisticStudy30. PratikAli2016ModificationalandPredicationalAdjectives31. MadhumantiDutta2017TheC-to-TRelationandtheBanglaSubjunctive32. PranitaKeshav2017DiscourseMarkersinMaithiliattheInterfaceofSyntaxandPragmatics33. MeenakshiChaudhary2017AnaphorsandCausativesinMara
34. SupervisionofM.Phil.dissertations,underprogress
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1. RenuKumari:PredicateTypesandAspectinMagahi2. AnuPandey:ExperiencerVerbConstructionsinHindi3. BidyaraniSapam:SyntacticStatusofMeiteilonAdjectivesandAdverbs
PublicationsProfile31.Books/Monographs(Authored/Edited)1. (2006)TheSyntaxofSouthAsianLanguages.MoutondeGruyter(edited)2. (2007)LinguisticTheoryandSouth-AsianLanguages.(withJosefBayerandM.T.HanyBabu(edited)).JohnBenjamins3. (2007)ArgumentStructure.(withEricReulandandGiorgosSpathas(edited))JohnBenjamins 4. (2014)TheSignLanguage(s)ofIndiabyTanmoyBhattacharyaetal;OrientBlackSwan,Delhi32.ResearchpaperspublishedinRefereed/PeerReviewedJournals1. (2017) “Peopling of the Northeast, Part 4”, neScholar vol.3, issue 2, 52-65. 2. (2017) “Adoption of Universal Design for Learning for Meaningful Inclusion” in Child and
Disability edited by D. Sonpal, S. Prasad, and S. Vaishnav, Prabhat Publishing House 3. (2017) “Peopling of the Northeast, Part 3”, neScholar vol.3, issue 1, 60-70. 4. (2016) “Peopling of the Northeast, Part 2”, neScholar vol.2, issue 4, 66-75. 5. (2016) “Diversity at Workplace and Education” in Interrogating Disability in India: Theory and
Practice, Springer, 39-64. 6. (2016) “Inner/Outer Politeness in Central Māgadhan Prākrit Languages: Agree as Labeling”,
Linguistics Analysis, vol. 40 (3-4), 297-336. 7. (2016) “To Be Human: The Introduction”, neScholar, vol 2, issue 3, 66-73. 8. (2016) “Suggested Reading: South Asia Disability Studies: Redefining Boundaries and
Extending Horizons” 9. (2015)“Copula-lessNominalSentencesandMatrix-C0Clauses:APlanarViewofPhraseStructure”inUCLWorking
PaperinLinguistics,vol.27,EditedbyLauraE.AldridgeandCaterinaPaolazzi,1-20.10. (2015-16)“Pollock-erBakko-bhangoothobaButterflyEffect”(inBangla:Pollock’sSentence-breakingortheButterfly
Effect),EbongMushaira,Vol22,Nos.3-4(pp.21-32)11. (2016)“ButWordsCanNeverHurt:TheLinguisticConstructionofDisabilityinTextandDiscourse”,LLT1012. (2012)“TransdisciplinarityandtheBiopoliticsofNewGenetics”,ReviewofSchramm,Katharina;Skinner,David;
Rottenburg,Richard,eds.,IdentityPoliticsandtheNewGenetics:Re/CreatingCategoriesofDifferenceandBelonging.H-Disability,H-NetReviews.December,2012.URL:http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35252
13. (2012)SluicinginIndo-Aryan:aninvestigationofBanglaandHindi;inSluicinginacross-linguisticperspective,editedbyJasonMerchantandAndrewSimpson,OxfordUniversityPress
14. (2011)DiagnosingdoubleobjectconstructionsinBangla/Bengali.Lingua.Vol121,Issue615. (2010)Re-examiningIssuesofInclusioninEducation.EconomicandPoliticalWeekly.April17,2010VolXIVNo
16.pp18-25.16. (2008)AuxiliarySelectionandAspectinBanglaIndianJournalofLinguistics17. (2008)FocusAccentinBanglaComplexSentences.InterdisciplinaryJournalofLinguistics18. (2007)InSearchofAlternativeTruths.DiscussionCircle.33.ResearchpaperspublishedinAcademicJournalsotherthanRefereed/PeerReviewedJournals19. (2015-16) “Pollock-er Bakko-bhango othoba Butterfly Effect” (in Bangla: Pollock’s Sentence-
breaking or the Butterfly Effect), Ebong Mushaira, Vol 22, Nos. 3-4 (pp. 21-32) 20. (2015) “Doing Culture in Grammar: The Wide Universal Grammar Model” The Mother Language,
International Mother Language Institute, Dhaka. 21. (2015) “Linguistic knowledge in a multilingual classroom: Sentence structure (Part 1)” Swara: NMRC
Newsletter, vol 5., JNU, New Delhi. 22. (2012)“HistoryoftheCalcuttaDeafandDumbSchool”.DisabilityHistoryAssociationNewsletter.Spring,2012. 34.ResearchpaperspublishedinRefereed/PeerReviewedConferences23. (2011)Space-Machine.InProceedingsofEpisteme4,HomiBhabaCentreforScience,Mumbai(withHidam
Gourshyam)(internationalconferencetoreviewResearchonScience,TEchnologyandMathematicsEducation)24. (2006)ButterpillarorCaterfly?TheBanglaPassiveinaMinimalistParser.Proceedingsofthe1stNationalSymposium
onModelingandShallowParsingofIndianLanguages(MSPIL).IIT,Mumbai.25. (2006)IdentificationofRCasNominalDependencyRelation(withNguyenChiDuyKhuong),Proceedingsofthe1st
NationalSymposiumonModelingandShallowParsingofIndianLanguages(MSPIL).IITMumbai.35.ResearchpapersPublishedinConferences/SeminarotherthanRefereed/PeerReviewedConferences1.(2008)IndianotasaLinguisticArea:AninsightfromMinimalism.InEmeneuCentenaryCelebrationVolume,CIIL,Mysore.
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36.Otherpublications(Editedworks,Bookreviews,Festschriftvolumes,etc.)26. (2016) “Review of Empowering Communication by Anjani Kumar Sinha”, Indian Linguistics, 76
(3-4) 27. (2016)“ReviewofRethinkingDisabilityinIndiabyAnitaGhai”,LLT1028. (2016)“SuggestedReading:SouthAsiaDisabilityStudies:RedefiningBoundariesandExtendingHorizons”29. (2014)“SignIconicityandNewEpistemologies”inTheSignLanguage(s)ofIndiabyTanmoyBhattacharyaetal;Orient
BlackSwan,Delhi30. (2014)“LegislationandPoliciesinrelationtoSignLanguageandSignLanguageRights”inTheSignLanguage(s)of
IndiabyTanmoyBhattacharyaetal;OrientBlackSwan,Delhi31. (2010)Thepoliticsofmulticulturalism.(jointlywithH.Basantarani).InProblematizingLanguageStudies,ed.ByImtiaz
HasnainandShreeshChoudhary,AAKARBooks,Delhi;India.pp169-18432. (2010)WithEyesWideShut:SharingasFreedom.InKnowledge,LanguageandLearning,editedbyRamaKant
AgnihotriandH.D.Dewan,Macmillan,Delhi.33. (2008)SluicinginIndo-Aryan:AnInvestigationofBanglaandHindi(withAndrewSimpson),inSluicingeditedbyJason
Merchant,JohnBenjamins34. (2008)WithEyesWideShut:SharingasFreedom.CognitiveScience,edsRamaKantAgnihotriandTistaBagchi,Sage,
Delhi.35. (2007)Nowyouseeit,nowyoudon’t:SuperiorityandSluicinginBangla,inArgumentStructure(withAndrew
Simpson),JohnBenjamins36. (2007)Thereisafloweronthetable.InRainbowofLinguisticseditedbyNiladriDash,ProbalDasguptaandPabitra
Sarkar,T.MediaPublications,Calcutta.ConferenceOrganization/Presentations(inthelastthreeyears)Listagainsteachhead(Ifapplicable)37.OrganizationofaConference
1. June8-9,2016.PartofOrganisingCommitteeofthe22ndHimalayanLanguageSymposiumatIIT,Guwahati2. August26,2015.Conductedinteractiveworkshopon“MultidisciplinaryapproachestoDisabilityStudies”,
LadyIrwinCollege,UniversityofDelhi3. May24–June5,2015.Organisedandtaughtat8thLinguisticsSummerSchool,Solang,HP.4. Feb21-22,2015.OrganisedInternationalMotherLanguageDay2-daynationalconferenceatJNU5. May24–June5,2014.Organisedandtaughtat8thLinguisticsSummerSchool,Solang,HP.6. May26-June15,2013.Organisedandtaughtat7thLinguisticsSummerSchool,Kangra,HP.7. June1-15,2012.Organisedandtaughtat6thLinguisticsSummerSchool,Kangra,HP.8. May24-June8,2011.OrganisedandtaughtSyntaxatthe5thLinguisticsSummerSchool,Kangra,HP.9. March3-5,2011.Organisedthe1stNationalAnnualConferenceonDisability,UniversityofDelhi
38.ParticipationasPaper/PosterPresenter1. July 5, 2017 “The Consequence of Code-Mixing the Adjective in NPs in Meiteilon English”,
Talk delivered in HLS 23 at Tezpur University, Assam. 2. July 4, 2017 “Peopling of the Northeast of India: Stories of Migration and Contact”, invited talk
at Centre for the Environment and Institutional Biotech Hub, IIT, Guwhati, Assam. 3. June 12-13,2017 “On some methods in Formal Linguistics”, 2 invited lectures delivered at the
Dept. of Linguistics, Manipur University, Imphal. 4. May 15-17, 2017 “Agreementand Pronominalisation:Two Different Ways toAgree”
invited Plenary speaker, SALA 33, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. 5. May 15-17, 2017 “Meiteilon DPs and Comparative Syntax” (with ), SALA 33, Adam
Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland 6. March 16, 2017 “The structure of English in-mixing in Meiteilon and Norwegian: Different, but
still the same” (with Tor A. Åfarli), at 4th Fourth Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (LCTG4), Greifswald.
7. March 16, 2017 “The ‘Cyclic’ Nature of Clitic Placement in Munda” invited talk at the International seminar on Munda Linguistics, Deccan College, Pune.
8. Feb. 20, 2017 “Shifting the Epistemic Centre: Teaching Sign Linguistics”, workshop on “Grammar in the Classroom” INCP, University of Delhi.
9. Jan. 20, 2017 “A-Void-ing” invited talk at A Panel on “Identity in the Contemporary World” Lady Shriram College, University of Delhi.
10. Jan. 6, 2017 “Language Mixing and Coercion”, invited talk at SynKranti, EFLU, Hyderabad.
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11. Dec. 5, 2016 “Language is not speech: The non-linearity thesis”, invited talk at BPS Mahila Vishwavidyalaya, Haryana.
12. Dec. 3, 2016 “The Importance and Urgency of Setting up of Centres of Disability Studies” invited talk at JNUVCSF, JNU, New Delhi.
13. Nov. 11, 2016 “Code-Switching without Grammar? Evidence from Language Mixing in Meiteilon-English and Bangla-Hindi”, invited talk, ICOLSI 38, IIT, Guwahati.
14. Nov. 3, 2016 “The Non-Linearity Thesis: Language and Evolution”, invited talk delivered at NIT, Imphal
15. Oct 31, 2016 “Language and Evolution”, invited talk delivered at Manipur University, Imphal 16. Oct 13, 2016 “Goldberg Variations: Arguing against Pseudo-Nonlexicality”, SynVar3, CASL,
DU. 17. July 16, 2016 “The importance of understanding with “care”: The case of language mixing”
Invited talk at “Education through MT”, CIIL, Mysore. 18. June20,2016.“Meiteilon-EnglishCodeSwitching:ANon-LexicalApproach”,invitedtalkdeliveredatManipur
University,Imphal.19. June8,2016.“PrimacyofCaseinCentre-EmbeddingConstructionsinAssameseandBangla”(WithAtreyee
Sharma)paperpresentedin22ndHimalayanLinguisticsSymposium,IIT,Guwahati20. June8,2016.“C-TransitivityinMeiteilon”(WithHidamGaourashyamSingh)paperpresentedin22ndHimalayan
LinguisticsSymposium,IIT,Guwahati21. March11,2016.“Why(Not)Syntax?”TalkdeliveredatthePerspectiveseriesinIIIT,Guwahati22. March12,2016.“ReturningtoSiteofDegradation”,invitedpresentationaspartofPerspectiveSeriesWorkshop
I:THEMINDMATTERS:Language,CognitionandOtherCorrelationsatIIIT,Guwahati23. Feb.3,2016.“Linguisticconstructionofdisability”,invitedtalkatSt.Stephen’sCollege,UnivofDelhi.24. Jan.7,2016.“Banglapolarquestionsasquestionsabouttopics”,paperpresentedatthe12thICOSAL,Univof
Hyderabad,Hyderabad.25. Jan.8,2016.“DerivingPolarandAlternativeQuestionsinBangla”invitedtalkatDept.ofLinguistics,EFLU,
Hyderabad.26. Jan.9,2016.“IntroducingMinimalism”,invitedpresentation,CALTS,Univ.ofHyderabad.27. Dec.14,2015.“Retuningtothesiteofdegradation”6thAnnualInternationalConferenceoftheComparative
EducationSocietyofIndia,“Education–Domination,EmancipationandDignity”AzimPremjiUniversity,Bengaluru14-16December2015
28. Nov.23,2015.“ModalityandPhaseBoundaryEffectof–r∂m/l∂m-inMeeteilon”,paperpresentedatInternationalConferenceonSyntacticTypology:LanguageContactandConvergence,NEHU,Shillong.
29. Nov.24,2015.“IseemtobeinPain:ExperiencerSubjectConstructionsasencodingtheExperienceoftheSelfinIndianLanguages”,invitedthemepaperpresentedattheInternationalConferenceonSyntacticTypology:LanguageContactandConvergence,NEHU,Shillong.
30. Nov.27,2015.“Somequalificationsonthe“LanguageasThought”hypothesis”,invitedpresentationatthe“Language,Literature,andCognition”symposiumatIIT,Guwahati.
31. October14,2015.“LanguageasStructuredThought:ANoteontheBiolinguisticPerspectiveoflanguage”;invitedtalkatEnglishDet.,DelhiUniv.
32. October15,2015.“Cosmopolitanism:Diffusingpowerinamultilingualclassroom”,paperreadatpanelon“Language,IdentityinMultilingualMilieus”atICOLSI37atJNU,NewDelhi.
33. March28,2015.“LinguisticArtefactsinSchoolCurriculum:EnglishTeachinginPrimaryClasses,one-dayworkshoponLanguageAwarenessandPedagogicalImplicationsinaMultilingualClassroom,AligarhMuslimUniversity.
34. March15,2015:“Inner/OuterPolitenessinCentralMāgadhanPrākritLanguages:AgreeasLabelling”,InvitedtalkattheWorkshopon“CaseandAgreementinSouthAsianLanguages”,atSCONLI9,IIT,Delhi.
35. Feb27,2015:InvitedtalkatIIS,Jaipur,“Disability:AnIntroduction”.36. Feb22,2015:“ALinguisticAnalysisofTwoLessonsofClassIVLanguageTextbooks”,InternationalMother
LanguageDay,JNU37. Feb13,2015:InvitedtalkatAUD“RethinkingParticipation”,aspartofRethinkingDevelopmentSymposium.38. Feb6-7,2015:InvitedtalkatJNU“ServiceAndKnowledge:TheRolesofDisabilityOrganisationsinHigher
Education”Invitedtalkinthe“InternationalConferenceonDisabilityStudiesinIndia:ReflectionsonFuture”,JNU.
39. 10Dec.2014:“IntegrativeDifference:LanguageLossandIndigenousCultureinIndiaandCanada”,PaneltalkatIGNCA,NewDelhi.
40. 2Dec.2014 :“Dravidian-Tibeto-BurmanSimilarities:IsThereaThirdgroup Involved?”LeadingPanelpresentationat36thICOLSI(AICL)meeting,UniversityofKerala,Thiruvanantapuram.
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41. 28Nov.2014:“AreWeAllAlike?Questioningthepathologiesofthe‘Normate’”,PaperpresentedattheInequalityinEducationInternationalConference,UniversityofDelhi.
42. 26Nov.2014“Ïndo-Mongoloids”andtheIdeaofaCompositeIndianCultureinSunitiKumarChatterji’sKIRĀTA-JANA-KRITI”,SunitiKumarChatterji’s125thbirthAnniversary.
43. 3Sept.2014:“TheEthicsofMultidimensionality“,InvitestalkattheSeminaronmethodologyanddidacticsofGermanlanguageteaching,SchoolofLanguages,JNU
44. 15July2014:“CentringKnowledgeasEducationforALL”,KeynoteaddressatworkshoponLearningandLearnabilityIssuesofSC/STChildren,JadavpurUniversity,Kolkata.
45. 12Apr2014:TheendearingCurseoftheMeditativeGazeand‘InformalSyntax’”,InvitedSeminartalk,PhilosophyDept.,DU
46. 29March2014:“TheEcologyofUnderstandingandResearch”;Researchwritingnationalworkshop2014,Humanities&SocialSciencesDepartment,IIT,Delhi.
47. 25Feb2014:“FormalisingtheLocal:AWideViewofUG”;StandardisationofBanglaStyleSheet,NationalSeminarcumWorkshop,JadavpurUniversity,Kolkata.
48. 20Feb2014:“AnIntroductiontotheBiolinguisticProgramme”,invitedtalkattheDept.ofLanguageandLinguistics,JadavpurUniversity,Kolkata.
49. 12Feb2014:“InclusionasatoolformeaningfuleducationalexperienceforALL”,invitedseminartalkatNMRS,SchoolofSocialSciences,JNU.
50. 24Jan2014:“TheBiolinguisticsProgramme”,invitedatCALTS,HCU,Hyderabad.51. 23Jan2014:“CentringDisabilityintheDiscoursesofTeaching”,InvitedtalkonInclusiveEducationatInclusive
Education:EnglishlanguageClassroomandDisabilities(NationalSeminarcumworkshop),HCU,Hyderabad52. 19Jan2014:“Theroleofinstitutionsinembodyingactswith‘people’”,Indo-IrishPolicyEncounter,NALSAR,
Hyderabad.53. 17Jan2014:“Themeditativegazeandthebiolinguisticprogramme:Thequestionofculture”,Invited
FoundationDaylecture,CulturalStudiesDept.,TezpurUniversity,Assam.54. 13-16Jan2014:“ExperiencerSubjectsasEncodingSelfhoodandIdentification”;ModelingExperiencersin
NaturalLanguageSemanticsInternationalWorkshop,5thIndianSchoolonLogicanditsApplications(ISLA)2014,TezpurUniversity,Assam.
55. 9Dec.2013:“DisasterResistanceandCare:ADisabilityStudiesperspective”;NAPSIPAG’s(NetworkofAsiaPacificSchoolsandInstitutesofPublicAdministrationandGovernance)10thInternationalConference,JNU.
56. 29Nov.2013:“FactsofMeiteilon”;35thICOLSI(InternationalConferenceofLinguisticsSocietyofIndia),CIIL,Mysore
57. 28Nov.2013:“Classifiers:DefinitenessorSpecificity?”;PanelonClassifiersinIndianLanguagesduringthe35thICOLSI(InternationalConferenceofLinguisticsSocietyofIndia),CIIL,Mysore
58. 22Nov.2013:“WhySyntax?”;Workshop/conferenceRethinkingMultilingualEducationinthe21stCentury,JNU59. 31Aug2013:“DisabilityStudiesasResistance:ThePoliticsofEstrangement”;Disability,GenderandSubjectivity
NationalWorkshoporganizedbyIndianAssociationofWomen’sStudiesandSchoolofHumanSciences,AmbedkarUniversity
60. 23March,2013:“Gushing-UpandTrickling-Down:TheHighandtheLowofPolitenessinCentralMāgadhanPrākritLanguages”:talkatBoundariesseminaratCASL,DU.
61. 10March,2013“:DemonsoftheEast:AgreementinCentralMāgadhanPrākritLanguages”,InvitedLecture,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,USA
62. 26-27February,2013:“MethodsinHumanitiesandSocialSciences”,3lecturesdeliveredattheRefresherCourseorganisedbyCPDHE,UniversityofDelhi.
63. 12February,2013:“PSEUDO-AGREE:PARTII”,Invitedlecture,FormalLanguageatIITD64. Feb8,2013:“Confessionsofthetwo-dimensionalmind”,KeynoteAddressatSCONLI7,AligarhMuslim
University,Aligarh65. 31Jan.,2013:“DisabilityandEntertainment”,InvitedguestohonouratDrishtikon,St.StephensCollege,
UniversityofDelhi.66. 30Nov–4Dec,2012:“Knowledge,ToolsandEvaluation:AWorkshopontheTheoryofSyntax/Mind”,
WorkshopconductedatEklavya,Bhopal.67. 26Nov.,2012:“CentreforDisabilityStudies”,Consultingpresentation,AzimPremjiUniversity,Bangalore.68. 6-9Nov.,2012:4invitedlectureson“LanguageEvolutionandtheTheoryofGrammar”,ManipurUniversity,
Imphal69. 2Nov.,2012:“SplitPhi-FeatureAgreementinCentralMāgadhanPrākritLanguages”,34AICL,NorthEasternHill
University,Shillong.70. 28Sept.,2012:“DiversityatWorkplaceandinEducation”,invitedlectureattheInternationalDevelopment
StudiesKolkata,Calcutta.
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71. 30August,2012:“Disability:AnIntroduction”,InvitedtalkatKiroriMalCollege,UniversityofDelhi.72. 17August,2012:“TheImportanceofSignLanguageforDeafEducationandSignTechnology”,Workshopon
surveyforISLinPLSI,Bhasha,Vadodara.73. March3,2012:“ThePlaceofIntersectionalityinHigherEducationStudentswithDisabilities”.National
ConsultationonEquityinHigherEducationTowardsanIntersectionalApproach,ICSSR,organisedbyCentreforWomen’sDevelopmentStudies(CWDS),NewDelhi.
74. February18,2012:“CyclicAgreeinWesternMagadhanPrakrit”,KeynoteaddressdeliveredatStudentsConferenceinLinguisticsinIndia(SCONLI)6,BanarasHinduUniversity,Varanasi.
75. February18,2012:“SyntaxWorkshop:TheChangingFaceofAgreement”,WorkshopconductedatStudentsConferenceinLinguisticsinIndia(SCONLI)6,BanarasHinduUniversity,Varanasi.
76. January21,2012:"Directional/DeicticParticlesinMeiteilon:AcaseforStatesofAffairs",invitedpresentationattheComplexPredicateinSouthAsianLanguagesWorkshopheldatEFL-U,Hyderabad.
77. December18,2011:InvitedPanelLecture“‘Understanding’asMethod:TheRationalinKamalkumar”atthe2ndInternationalCongressonBanglaStudies(ICBS),UniversityofDhaka,Bangladesh.
78. December3,2011:Keynoteaddress“TheDifferencebetweenFallinginLoveandObservingLove”atSambhavna,SchoolofSocialWork,UniversityofDelhi.
79. November4,2011:Invitedspeciallecture“TheCultureofQuestionsinGrammarandLanguage”attheDepartmentofLinguistics,ManipurUniversity,Manipur,IndiaNovember3,2011:Invitedspeciallecture“TheQuestionof‘Culture’inGrammarandLanguage”attheDepartmentofLinguistics,ManipurUniversity,Manipur,India
80. October7,2011:InvitedPubliclecture“Speaker-HearerinaClause:TheCaseofAddresseeAgreement”aspartoftheIndiaWeekattheNorwegianUniversityofScienceandTechnology,Trondheim,NORWAY
81. October6,2011:InvitedPubliclecture“Comp-internalClausesinBanglaRevisited”aspartoftheIndiaWeekattheNorwegianUniversityofScienceandTechnology,Trondheim,NORWAY
82. Sept.7,2011:Talkon“ICTforPwDs:withSpecialReferencetoIndianSignLanguage”attheUniversalServiceObligationFund(USOF)Stakeholder’smeetingorganisedbytheDepartmentofTelecommunication,VigyanBhavan,NewDelhi.
83. July7.2011:Invitedtalkon“HigherEducationandDisability”atRegionalConsultationon“TowardsAttainmentofUNCRPDArticlesonEducationandEmployment:LearningfromInclusivePractices”atUNNATI,OrganisationforDevelopmentofEducation,Ahmedabad.
84. June13,2011.DeafEducationandIdentityinthefaceofPrevailingAudism.PanelDiscussiononDisabilityandCinema,NehruMemorialMuseumandLibrary,Delhi
85. May7-10,2011:6lectureson"EducationofStudentswithDisability"attheWorkshopwithSpecialEducatorsofMCDSchoolsofDelhi.
86. March25,2011:"Prejudice,StereotypeandDevaluation:AnAnalysisofDiscoursearoundDisability"Invitedpaperpresentedatthe“ExploringdisabilityExperienceinSocialScienceResearch”on25-26thMarch2011,JNU
87. March8-9,2011:"Deviationfromthe‘Norm’asMethodandStyle"InvitedpaperpresentedWorkshoponResearchMethodology
88. March4,2011,"MethodsinDisabilityStudies"paperpresentedatthe1stNationalAnnualConferenceonDisability,UniversityofDelhi
89. January5,2011:"Space-Machine";Episteme4,HomiBhabaCentreforScience,Mumbai(withHidamGourshyam)internationalconferencetoreviewResearchonScience,TEchnologyandMathematicsEducation
90. December26,2010:Foregroundingas‘Reason’:KamalkumarMajumdar’sUseofAdjoinedClauses"paperpresentedat"LanguageasaSocialFact"workshoporganisedbyCIILatVBERC,Udaipur.
91. November26,2010:"APreliminarySyntacticAnalysisofKamalkumarMajumdar’sShyam-Nouka"paperreadatColloquium"Language:MultipleVoices"UniversityofDelhi
92. Nov4-5,2010:"TheSyntaxofRecursion",TwoinvitedtalksatManipurUniversity,Imphal.93. October27,2010:"EducationofStudentswithDisabilities:AnEvaluationoftheIndianEducationalPolicies"
invitedpaperpresentedattheInternationalEDICT2010(ENABLINGACCESSTOEDUCATIONTHROUGHICT)conference
94. May25,2010.WhatisEqualOpportunity?KeynoteaddressdeliveredatJamiaHamdardUniversity.95. March27,28,2010.DisabilityandGender:AWorkshop,Chairandmoduleleaderfor“IssuesofEmbodiment”and“Disability
andSexuality”.96. March25,2010.CartographyofDisciplines:De-centringKnowledge.Literature,ArtandOtherDisciplines:Interrelationships,
MIL,DU.97. Feb.26,2010.InternationalBanglaCongress.ChairedasessiononLinguistics.98. Jan.7-9,2010.Pseudo-Agree,ICOSAL9,PunjabiUniversity,Patiala99. Jan7-9,2010.AnalysingVariationwithMinimalism:TenseandAgreementinRajbanshi(jointlywithDriptaPiplai),ICOSAL9,
PunjabiUniversity,Patiala100. Dec.2,2009.DeafEducationandMainstreaming,DisabilityandtheRTE:Stakeholders,StateandCivilSociety,Sambhavana,
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UniversityofDelhi.101. Nov.7-8,2009.EOC:VisionandFuture,AllIndiaFederationforRighttoEducationAct,UniversityofDelhi.102. Oct.20,2009.FutureoftheEOC,AnniversaryoftheDU-NTPCICTTrainingCentre,UniversityofDelhi.103. March21,2009.ThePoliticsofMulticulturalism.TalkatEnglishandLinguisticsrefreshercourseattheUniversityofDelhi.104. March6-7,2009.IntroducingSyntax.TalkatEnglishandLinguisticsrefreshercourseattheUniversityofDelhi.105. April8-11,2009.ConductedworkshoponWeb-designingforNGOsatVBERC,Udaipur.106. Nov26-28,2008.GoodWifeGoodLife?(jointlywithSuranjanaBarua),30thAICLMeeting,DeccanCollege,Pune.107. Nov26-28,2008.OnWhatisBelievedtobeaPassiveinBundeli(jointlywithRuchiJain).30thAICLMeeting,DeccanCollege,
Pune.108. June9-11,2008WhMovementinBanglainaMinimalistParser,WorkshoponComputationalModelsforIndianLanguages
(CGMIL),IIIT,Hyderabad.109. Jan25-27,2008HighandLowGoalsinBanglaDitransitiveConstructions(jointlywithAndrewSimpson),Nanzan-EFLU
Symposium.ResearchProjects(MajorGrants/ResearchCollaboration)
1. UGCMajorResearchProject:“LinguisticVariationAcrossSixDialectsofMeiteilon”(Feb.,2015-Jan.,2018)2. Indo-NorwegianCooperationProgramme2014(INCP):“AmicrocomparativeStudyofDoublinginDialectsof
MeeteilonandNorwegianasacaseofSyntacticVariation”(Jan2015–Dec.,2017)3. LinguisticsWorkbook,VBERC,Udaipur4. CIILRevisitingGrammarProject (Tangkhul,Mising,Bhumij)5. CIILLISIndiaProject(Kumauni)
AwardsandDistinctionsHonoraryresearchassociate(SOAS),UniversityofLondon,2003-2009;SirCharlesWallaceIndiaTrustgrant(Ph.D.,UK),CommonwealthScholarship(Ph.D.,UK),UCLBursaryforpaperpresentationsinItaly,Norway,UK,UGCJunior&SeniorResearchFellowship(Ph.D.),UggersainMemorialGoldMedal(M.A.),P&TMeritScholarship(B.Sc.).AssociationWithProfessionalBodies
39.Editing1. Editor:
a. GuestEditor:LanguageandLanguageTeaching,July2016,Vol.10b. ChiefEditor:IndianLinguisticsc. Editor,People’sLinguisticSurveyofIndiavolumeonIndianSignLanguaged. ChiefEditor,LISSIMWorkingPapers
2. EditorialBoardMember:a. Syntax(publishedbyWiley-Blackwell)(since2010)b. LanguageandLanguageTeaching(APU/VBERC)(since2010)
40.Reviewing1. LinguisticInquiry2. Lingua3. Syntax4. JournalofSouthAsianLinguistics5. JournalofSocialInclusion41.Advisory1. AdvisoryCommitteemember,EndangeredLanguageScheme,SIkkimUniversity2. StandingAdvisoryCommittee,IndianSignLanguageResearchandTrainingCentre3. NationalExpertforvalidationofcourseonSignLanguageofferedbyCentralLancashireUniversityatIGNOU,
2009,20104. CoursesCoordinator,EqualOpportunityCell(EOC),untilMay20125. NationalServicesScheme42.CommitteesandBoards1. Member,ProjectReviewandSteeringGroup,MinistryofCommunicationandInformation
Technology;sinceSept.20142. MemberoftheExpertCommitteeentitled“ReviewandRevisetheRules,SchemesandProvisionsconcerning
theDisabledStudentsandTeachers”(July2012-2014)3. CoursesCo-ordinator,EqualOpportunityCell,UniversityofDelhi,untilMay20124. BAProgrammeCommittee,UniversityofDelhi5. LibraryCommittee,UniversityofDelhi
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6. ArtsFaculty,UniversityofDelhi7. BoardofResearchStudies,UniversityofDelhi8. BoardofExaminersofDeccanCollege(Pune),OsmaniaUniversity(Hyderabad),AssamUniversity(Silchar),
KashmirUniversity9. RoundtablecommitteeonEndangeredLanguagesandIndigenousKnowledge,MHRD,GovernmentofIndia43.Memberships1. FOSSSIL(FormalStudiesinSyntaxandSemanticsofIndianLanguages)2. GLOW(GenerativeLinguisticsoftheOldWorld)3. LSI(LinguisticsSocietyofIndia)44.OfficeBearer1. GeneralSecretary,FOSSSIL(FormalStudiesinSyntaxandSemanticsofIndianLanguages)
OtherActivities
1. ConsultancyforMicrosoftResearchIndiaonTAGsetdesign2. ConsultantforVidyaBhawanSociety,Udaipur,Gyanshala,Ahmedabad–EducationalNGOs(2007-08)3. TaughtintheDisabilityandtheHumanRightscourseattheEOC(2009,2010,2011)4. TaughtThePoliticsofMulticulturalismattheDUrefresherscourseinEnglish(2009)5. TaughtBasicSyntaxattheDUrefresherscourseinEnglish(2009)6. ExaminerforM.Phil./Ph.D.dissertationsofEFLU,JNU7. PapersetterforNET/JRFexam