Syntax, Discourse, Psycholinguistics, Gender, Sign Language

Phonetics, Advanced Phonology, Linguistic Analysis, Morphology & Syntax, Field Linguistics & Dialectology, Computational Linguistics, Dissertation (Syntax), Introduction to Transformation Generative Syntax, Intermediate Syntax, Advanced Syntax, Current Trends in Syntax, Focus Area Studies (Syntax/ Discourse/ Sociolinguistics/ Psycholinguistics/ Gender), Disability and Human Rights.

Jan. 1-4, 2005. India not as a Linguistic Area: An insight from Minimalism.  Prof M.B. Emeneau Centenary International Conference on South Asian Linguistics, CIIL, Mysore

Jan 4-6, 2005. Non-reciprocal uses of the Verbal Reciprocal in Boro: A Case for a Discourse Interface (jointly with Chandan Borgoyari). 6th International Conference on South Asian Languages (ICOSAL), Hyderabad.

Jan 4-6, 2005. Parsing of Scrambled Sentences in Hindi/ Urdu (with Madhu). 6th ICOSAL, Hyderabad.

Jan 4-6, 2005. Spelling out DPs in Maithili (with Anil Thakur and Kamal Kumar). 6th International Conference on South Asian Languages (ICOSAL), Hyderabad.

March 12, 2005. The Myth of Areal Linguistics: A view from the Interfaces. Invited talk at the Workshop on the syntax and acquisition of Asian languages, Nanzan University, Nagoya.

March 14, 2005. The Myth of Areal Linguistics: A view from the Interfaces. Invited talk at Keio University, Tokyo.

Oct. 5, 2005. Copula-less nominal sentences and matrix C0 clauses: A planar view of clause structure. Paper presented in the 5th Asian GLOW conference, JNU, Delhi.

Dec. 6, 2005 A Plane Account. 27th LSI conference, HCU

Dec 8, 2005 The Role of the Embedded Verb in Parsing of Control Constructions in Assamese and Bangla (with Atreyee Sharma). 27th LSI, HCU

March 25, 2006. A Simpler Parsing Algorithm for Relative Clauses in Vietnamese (with Nguyen Chi Duy Khuong). National Seminar on Language and Interfaces. University of Delhi.

April 2-4, 2006. Butterpillar or Caterfly? The Bangla Passive in a Minimalist Parser. Invited paper at 1st National Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages (MSPIL). IIT Mumbai.

April 2-4, 2006 Identification of RC as Nominal Dependency Relation (with Nguyen Chi Duy Khuong), 1st National Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages (MSPIL). IIT Mumbai.

Nov. 2-4, 2006 What’s in a Name? 28th LSI, BHU (with Suranjan Barua)

Nov. 2-4, 2006. Strong and Weak in Bangla. 28th LSI, BHU (with Sanjukta Ghosh and Aparna Mukherjee)

Dec. 19-21, 2006. Mixed Code as a ‘Complex Machine’, 26th SALA meeting, Kannada University, Mysore. (with H. Basantarani)

Dec. 19-21, 2006. Speech Act or Speech and Act? 26th SALA meeting, Kannada University, Mysore. (with Suranjana Barua)

Jan 25-27, 2008.  High and Low Goals in Bangla Ditransitive Constructions (jointly with Andrew Simpson), Nanzan-EFLU Symposium.

June 9-11, 2008. Wh Movement in Bangla in a Minimalist Parser, Workshop on Computational Models for Indian Languages (CGMIL), IIIT, Hyderabad.

Nov 26-28, 2008. Good Wife Good Life? (jointly with Suranjana Barua), 30^th AICL Meeting, Deccan College, Pune.

Nov 26-28, 2008. On What is Believed to be a Passive in Bundeli (jointly with Ruchi Jain). 30^th AICL Meeting, Deccan College, Pune.

March 6-7, 2009. Introducing Syntax. Talk at English and Linguistics refresher course at the University of Delhi.

March 21, 2009. The Politics of Multiculturalism. Talk at English and Linguistics refresher course at the University of Delhi.

April 8-11, 2009. Conducted workshop on Web-designing for NGOs at VBERC, Udaipur.

Oct. 20, 2009. Future of the EOC, Anniversary of the DU-NTPC ICT Training Centre, University of Delhi.

Nov. 7-8, 2009. EOC: Vision and Future, All India Federation for Right to Education Act, University of Delhi.

Dec. 2, 2009. Deaf Education and Mainstreaming, Disability and the RTE: Stakeholders, State and Civil Society, Sambhavana, University of Delhi.

Jan. 7-9, 2010.  Pseudo-Agree, ICOSAL 9, Punjabi University, Patiala

Jan 7-9, 2010.  Analysing Variation with Minimalism: Tense and Agreement in Rajbanshi (jointly with Dripta Piplai), ICOSAL 9, Punjabi University, Patiala

Feb. 26, 2010.  International Bangla Congress. Chaired a session on Linguistics.

March 25, 2010. Cartography of Disciplines: De-centring Knowledge. Literature, Art and Other Disciplines: Interrelationships, MIL, DU.

March 27,28, 2010.  Disability and Gender: A Workshop, Chair and module leader for “Issues of Embodiment” and “Disability and Sexuality”.

May 25, 2010. What is Equal Opportunity? Key note address delivered at Jamia Hamdard University.

Linguistics Workbook, VBERC, Udaipur

CIIL Revisiting Grammar Project (Tangkhul, Mising, Bhumij)

CIIL LIS India Project (Kumauni)

Honorary research associate (SOAS), University of London, 2003-2009; Sir Charles Wallace India Trust grant (Ph.D., UK), Commonwealth Scholarship (Ph.D., UK), UCL Bursary for paper presentations in Italy, Norway, UK, UGC Junior & Senior Research Fellowship (Ph.D.), Uggersain Memorial Gold Medal (M.A.), P&T Merit Scholarship (B.Sc).

Member, FOSSSIL

Member, GLOW

Member, LSI

Board of Editors, Syntax published quarterly by Blackwell.

Taught Linguistics for 2 weeks to NGOs in Vidya Bhavan Society, Udaipur.

Lectured at Gyan Shala, Educational NGO at Ahmedabad

Invited talks to Nagoya, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Hyderabad.

Started FOSSSIL, a joint Delhi Hyderabad initiative to train students in formal linguistics, hold conferences and summer/ winter schools in Linguistics, publish a journal and theses.

Evaluation of PhD/ MPhil Dissertations of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, CIEFL, Hyderabad

Started reading group OnEdge and SYN-RG at Delhi University

Organised international conferences and Started Students Conference in Linguistics (SCONLI)

Confidential referring articles for linguistics journals (Linguistics Inquiry) and conferences like COLING, SALA, GLOW, ICON, MSPIL, etc.

Articles

(2010)  With Eyes Wide Shut: Sharing as Freedom. In Knowledge, Language and Learning, eds Rama Kant Agnihotri and H.D. Dewan, Macmillan, Delhi.

(2008) Sluicing in Indo-Aryan: An Investigation of Bangla and Hindi (with Andrew Simpson), in Sluicing edited by Jason Merchant, John Benjamins.

(2008)  With Eyes Wide Shut: Sharing as Freedom. Cognitive Science, eds Rama Kant Agnihotri and Tista Bagchi, Sage, Delhi.

(2008)  India not as a Linguistic Area: An insight from Minimalism. In Emeneu Centenary Celebration Volume, CIIL, Mysore.

(2007)  Now you see it, now you don’t: Superiority and Sluicing in Bangla, in Argument Structure (with Andrew Simpson), John Benjamins

(2007) There is a flower on the table. In Rainbow of Linguistics edited by Niladri Dash, Probal Dasgupta and Pabitra Sarkar, T. Media Publications, Calcutta.

(2006) Butterpillar or Caterfly? The Bangla Passive in a Minimalist Parser. Proceedings of the 1^st National Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages (MSPIL). IIT, Mumbai.

(2006) Identification of RC as Nominal Dependency Relation (with Nguyen Chi Duy Khuong), Proceedings of the 1^st National Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages (MSPIL). IIT Mumbai.

(2005) With Eyes Wide Shut: Sharing as Freedom. Proceedings of Conference on Construction of Knowledge, Vidya Bhavan society, Udaipur.