Research Students

Ph.D. (awarded)

1.                  Nguyen Chi Duy Khuong, 2009: Some Non-Complement Structures in Vietnamese

2.                  Suranjana Barua, 2011: Revelation of Self in Language: A Conversation Analysis of Hindi-Speaking Couples

Ph.D. (Under progress)

1.                  Thangjam Hindustani Devi    Interface Strategies and Adjuncts

2.                  Atreyee Sharma   The Role of Word Order in Parsing

3.                  Dripta Piplai (jointly with RK Agnihotri) Language Conflict and Syntactic Variation: A study of the Rajbanshi Verb Forms used by Primary School Children

4.                  Hidam Gourshyam Singh The Syntax of Word Order in Indo-Pakistani Sign Language

5.                  Santosh Kumar A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Stereotype, Prejudice, and Discrimination of Gender and Disability in Talk and Text

6.                  Deepak Kumar Syntax of Relative Clauses and Relativisability of Arguments

7.                  Ishani Guha (Jointly with Rajesh Bhatt) Ellipses in Bangla Correlatives

M.Phil. (awarded)

  1. Thangjam Hindustani Devi     2003    Wh Quantification in Meiteilon

  2. Hamidul Haque                       2003    Binding and Pronominals in Bangla

  3. Atreyee Sharma                      2004    Construal and Reanalysis in Assamese

  4. Nguyen Chi Duy Khuong       2004    The DP in Vietnamese

  5. Kamal K Chaudhary               2004    Topic and focus in Maithili syntax

  6. Suranjana Barua                      2005    Conversational dominance and gender Construction among primary school children: A case study

  7. Shiti Malhotra                         2005    Asymmetry of Objects and the Larsonian VP-shell for Hindi/ Urdu

  8. Praveen Pralayankar                2007    The Syntax of Relative Clauses in Dramas of Kalidasa

  9. Madhu                                     2008    Parsing of Scrambling structures in Hindi 

  10. Priyanka Biswas                     2009    Tense and Aspect in Bangla: Some Issues in Syntax and Semantics

  11. Pinkey Nainwani                    2009    Constraints and Intervention Effects in Sindhi

  12. Shabnam Agarwal                   2010    Wh in Bangla in a Principle-Based Parser

  13. Hidam Gaurshyam                  2010    Incorporation in Indian Sign Language

  14. Ruchi Jain                               2010    Argument Structure in Bundeli

  15. Ishani Guha                             2011    Arguments and Adjuncts: A Case of unification?

  16. Deepak Kumar                        2011    Agreement in Angika

  17. Bidisha Bhattacherjee             2011    Complex Predicates in Bangla: A First Phase Syntax Account

  18. Kailadbu Daimai:                     2011    The DP in Liangmai with special reference to Classifier Constructions

  19. Saif Abdulwahed Jewad         2011     Partial/ Full Agreement in Arabic Clauses: A Minimalist Approach

  20. N. Sanatombi Devi                 2012    Topic and Focus in Meiteilon Syntax

M.Phil. (under progress)

1.                  Neha Kulseshthra: Wh Questions in Indo-Pakistani Sign Language

2.                  Lalit Rajkumar: Nominal and Verbal Honorific Markers in Meiteilon

3.                  Marcin Dadan: Negation, Its Constituents, and Phase Theory: Deriving Negative Concord in Polish

4.                  Reena Ashem: The Structure of the DP in Meiteilon