Ph.D. Scholars (Graduated)

Ph.D. Scholars (Current)

Papers Presented:

• 'Errors in Indian English: Interlanguage and Focus Constructions' at the International Conference on English Language and Teaching Skills: College of Management. Management House, D-1, Sector-V, Salt Lake Electronics Complex Kolkata (2018).

• ' Honorification in Bangla: A descriptive overview.' Presented at ICOLSI-41in the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (Amarkantak 13-15, NOVEMBER, 2019.

• 'Variations in Relative Clause Constructions in Bangla.' presented at IIT Kanpur, in Workshop on Approaches to Linguistic Variation II, on January 31, 2020. Organized by the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

• 'Language, Identity and Endangerment: A descriptive study. Presented by Pratiti Palit and Scherezade Dastur,  in the 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE MULTILINGUALISM (ICOIL-2). From 13th – 15th, February 2020. Held at IC&SR. Organized by Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Madras.

• Challenging Borders: From Between Borders - Paper title 'Exploring Linguistic Identities across the Border' Paper presented by Pratiti Palit & Anindita Sahoo - 11th-13th November 2021. Organized by The University of Bern, Switzerland. 

• Emerging Topics in Typology (ETT) - Paper title ' Micro-Variations in Bangla: A descriptive analysis of Honorification.' Paper presented by Pratiti Palit - 26th October to 26th November 2021. 

Papers presented:

• 'Code-switching and Code-mixing in Parsi Gujarati: A Structural Analysis .18th International Pragmatics Conference 9-14th July 2023 Held at Universite Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium

• 'The bifunctionality of the _-aa-_marker in Gujarati voice constructions' presented by Scherezade Dastur at the All About Voice (AAV) seminar 2023 organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, held on 14-15th April 2023.

• Syntactic Distance and Agreement Hierarchy presented by Scherezade Dastur and Anindita Sahoo at Linguistics Beyond and Within 2021– International Linguistics Conference held at the Institute of Linguistics, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Lublin, Poland, organized by the Department of Applied Linguistics, the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, the Department of Contrastive English-Polish Studies, and  the Department of Celtic Studies, held online on 14–15 October 2021.  

• Language, Identity and Endangerment: A descriptive study presented by Pratiti Palit and Scherezade Dastur at the 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE MULTILINGUALISM (ICOIL-2) held at IC&SR, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Madras. From 13th – 15th, February 2020.

• How Parsi is Parsi Gujarati?  presented by Scherezade Dastur at the 2nd Workshop on Approaches to Linguistic Variation II, held at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, organized by the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, on January 31, 2020.

• A Descriptive Analysis of Gujarati Passives presented by Anindita Sahoo and Scherezade Dastur at the 41st International Conference of Linguistics Society iof India (ICOLSI-41) at the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, India organized by the Department of Linguistics and Contrastive Study of Tribal Languages, held from 13-15th November 2019.

Posters presented:

• 10th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS 2023)  December 9-11, 2023.  IIT KANPUR, India. [Poster] A Neuroconnectionist Approach to Investigate Spatial Prepositions Far and Near using Visual Input.

• Bernstein Conference, Germany September 26-29, 2023. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany [Poster] What can a neuroconnectionist model reveal about vision learning spatial prepositions far and near?  https://doi.org/10.12751/nncn.bc2023.131 

Conference Attended:

• "The syntax of non-verbal predication" presented by Gunti Prem Sagar and Anindita Sahoo, at 47th Austrian Linguistics (in workshop Current issues in Syntax, semantics and Pragmatics), Organised by University of Graz from 8-10 December, 2023

• "Variations in voice constructions: A prototype approach", a paper presented by Prem Sagar at All About Voice (AAV) 2023, organized by the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, held on 14-15 April 2023.

• "The continuum that is 'Passive Voice'", paper presented by Aninidita Sahoo and Gunti Prem Sagar at Linguistics Beyond and Within 2021– International Linguistics Conference in Lublin, Poland, held online on 14–15 October 2021.  

• "Exploring copular variations in Telugu", presented by Anindita Sahoo and Gunti Prem Sagar, at  Workshop on Approaches to Linguistic Variation II, organized by  Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, held on January 31, 2020.   

Awards: Selected for the International Immersion Experience (IIE) travel award for the 4th Cycle in July 2023. The Office of Global Engagement, IIT Madras, awarded the award for a foreign visit/experience to excel further in my career.

Conference Attended:

1. “Effects of degree of permanence on inversion: Some insights from copula constructions in eastern Indo-Aryan languages”, will be presented by Foong Ha Yap, Anindita Sahoo, Snigdha Medhi, and Pratiti Palit at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 29 August – 1 September 2023.

2. "Split-Ergativity vs. Optional Ergativity: Which one is indigenous to Assamese?" presented by Snigdha Medhi and Anindita Sahoo at South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-37), from October 4-7, 2023, organized by the Department of Asian and North African Studies Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

3. “A Descriptive Analysis of Passives in Assamese” presented by Snigdha Medhi in the seminar “All about ‘Voice’: A Crosslinguistic Perspective” organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences from 14th to 15th April 2023.

4. “Split and Optionality in Ergative Constructions”, presented by Snigdha Medhi and Anindita Sahoo, 2022 at the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK), Annual Research Forum, 3rd December 2022.

5. “Linking Ergativity with Honorification”, presented by Snigdha Medhi and Anindita Sahoo, 2021 at the 43rd International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-43), CIIL, Mysore, from 21st -23rd December (not yet published).