The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
India
2018
M.A. Linguistics
Jadavpur University, Kolkata
India
2016
B.A. Major Communicative English
Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, University of Calcutta
India
Experience
June 2025 - Present - Assistant Professor - SRM University-AP
Research Interest
My PhD research investigates the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of wh-exclamative constructions in Bangla, an understudied South Asian Indo-Aryan language. It focuses on matrix wh-exclamatives, multiple and reduplication of the wh-elements, and their interaction with negation, with the aim of developing a unified compositional analysis. This line of inquiry has naturally led to a broader investigation of wh-questions, including a novel interrogative form in Bangla marked by the demonstrative suffix -e, which yields egocentric questions—characterized by speaker-oriented surprise and varying between rhetorical and information-seeking interpretations. I have also briefly explored the distribution of indefinites in Bangla and Hindi-Urdu, focusing on their acceptability in polar disjoint interrogatives and their incompatibility with alternative questions. This work engages with the syntax and semantics of interrogative structures and the behavior of disjunction particles. Additionally, I have explored aspects of tense and aspect in Bangla, as well as conditional constructions, with particular attention to ‘even-if’ conditionals.
Awards
2022 - International Travel Grant from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad to present my paper on “On the semantics of multiple wh-exclamatives in Bangla” at the 27th Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB 27), Charles University,Prague.
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Formal Semantics
Pragmatics (and their interface)
Syntax
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Education
2016
B.A. Major Communicative English
Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, University of Calcutta
India
2018
M.A. Linguistics
Jadavpur University, Kolkata
India
2025
PhD
The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
India
Experience
June 2025 - Present - Assistant Professor - SRM University-AP
Research Interests
My PhD research investigates the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of wh-exclamative constructions in Bangla, an understudied South Asian Indo-Aryan language. It focuses on matrix wh-exclamatives, multiple and reduplication of the wh-elements, and their interaction with negation, with the aim of developing a unified compositional analysis. This line of inquiry has naturally led to a broader investigation of wh-questions, including a novel interrogative form in Bangla marked by the demonstrative suffix -e, which yields egocentric questions—characterized by speaker-oriented surprise and varying between rhetorical and information-seeking interpretations. I have also briefly explored the distribution of indefinites in Bangla and Hindi-Urdu, focusing on their acceptability in polar disjoint interrogatives and their incompatibility with alternative questions. This work engages with the syntax and semantics of interrogative structures and the behavior of disjunction particles. Additionally, I have explored aspects of tense and aspect in Bangla, as well as conditional constructions, with particular attention to ‘even-if’ conditionals.
Awards & Fellowships
2022 - International Travel Grant from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad to present my paper on “On the semantics of multiple wh-exclamatives in Bangla” at the 27th Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB 27), Charles University,Prague.
Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, University of Calcutta
India
2018
M.A. Linguistics
Jadavpur University, Kolkata
India
2025
PhD
The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
India
Experience
June 2025 - Present - Assistant Professor - SRM University-AP
Research Interests
My PhD research investigates the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of wh-exclamative constructions in Bangla, an understudied South Asian Indo-Aryan language. It focuses on matrix wh-exclamatives, multiple and reduplication of the wh-elements, and their interaction with negation, with the aim of developing a unified compositional analysis. This line of inquiry has naturally led to a broader investigation of wh-questions, including a novel interrogative form in Bangla marked by the demonstrative suffix -e, which yields egocentric questions—characterized by speaker-oriented surprise and varying between rhetorical and information-seeking interpretations. I have also briefly explored the distribution of indefinites in Bangla and Hindi-Urdu, focusing on their acceptability in polar disjoint interrogatives and their incompatibility with alternative questions. This work engages with the syntax and semantics of interrogative structures and the behavior of disjunction particles. Additionally, I have explored aspects of tense and aspect in Bangla, as well as conditional constructions, with particular attention to ‘even-if’ conditionals.
Awards & Fellowships
2022 - International Travel Grant from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad to present my paper on “On the semantics of multiple wh-exclamatives in Bangla” at the 27th Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB 27), Charles University,Prague.
