LINGUISTICS UNIT
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Linguistics aims to discover the forms, rules, representations and computations that underlie human languages. The Linguistics unit housed within IIT Delhi engages with questions pertaining to the production and comprehension of language. Between the faculty members and the scholars here, we cover a wide range of interests that spans from phonology, syntax to computational linguistics as well as psycholinguistics. We also teach B. Tech level courses. M. Sc. Cognitive Science is the newest course we have extended.
Faculty Members
Nair's research interests are in the fields of cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, narrative, English studies, philosophy of language, techno-cultures, literary and postcolonial theory, gender and creative writing.
(Professor)
Chandra's broad research interests span across Syntactic Theory, Linguistic Typology, Biolinguistics & Language and Politics.
(Assistant Professor)
Vaidya's core interests lie in topics at the interface of syntax and semantics with an added interest in the representation and processing of such phenomena using computational models.
(Associate Professor)
Sanyal's research interests are in theoretical approaches to phonology and morpho-syntax, through the use of the theoretical frameworks such as Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammar, Distributive Morphology and Minimalism.
(Associate Professor)
Husain's broad areas of research are human sentence processing, natural language modeling, natural language parsing, and dependency grammars. These topics lie at the intersection of psychology and computational/theoretical linguistics.
Research Scholars (Graduate students)
Krishan Chaursiya
His broad research interests lie in language acquisition, phonological markedness theory, perceptual mapping of sounds and their theoretical formalization.
His research interest lies in working on models of parsing that can explain errors in sentence production and comprehension.
She is UGC-Senior Research Fellow and is currently working on the phenomenon of case change.
C. Tanuj Barla
She is currently exploring phonological frameworks and other generative theories to encode the ambiguity in schwa deletion process in Hindi.
She is interested in the domain of psycholinguistics, specifically human sentence production. Currently, she is investigating the nature and extent of planning during production.
His research interests is in Generative phonology. He is primarily focusing on Vowel harmony.
Nayana Raj
Her broad interests lie in the area of sentence processing in SOV languages. She is currently interested in exploring the role of event complexity in prediction using experimental methods.
She is working in theoretical syntax. Her research primarily involves the area of classifiers and plurality.
He is working primarily in the areas of morphology and syntax. His present research focuses on the composition and semantics of adjectives.
Madhusmitha V.
She is working in theoretical syntax. Her research interests include syntactic variation, change in contact, and bilingualism.
Her research interests are in Generative syntax. Her current research is on the syntax of honorifics in the Eastern Indo Aryan languages.
Biswanath Dash
His research interests include Language contact, Syntactic variation, and Negation.
Ankita Prasad
Her core area of research is phonology with a focus on constraint based theories. Her current research work is on sound change in Sylheti.
Vyom Sharma
His areas of interest include syntax and semantics, language variation, and typology. He is currently working on the syntax of negation of Wagdi.
Manujata Gupta
Her research focuses on investigating the nature of tone in Punjabi through phonological analysis using theoretical framework of Harmonic Serialism. Her research interests are in the field of Phonetics, Phonology and Theoretical approaches to Phonology
Anusuya Nayak
Her research interest lies in the field of Phonetics, Phonology and Morpho-Phonology.
Alumni
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras
Usha Udar
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Indore
Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Seminar for English Philology, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany
Reena Ashem
Morpho-syntax, Morpho-phonology and Syntax-phonology interface
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