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Dr. Bhamati Dash

Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics

Ph.D. in Linguistics (University of Southern California), NET Linguistics, M.A. Linguistics (English and Foreign Language University), B.A. English (Hons.) (English and Foreign Language University)

bhamati.dash@curaj.ac.in

 Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Syntax Interface

  • Ph.D. in Linguistics (2022), University of Southern California (USC),  Topic - ’Silence in Answers: A Study of Ellipsis in Hindi’
  • M.A. Linguistics (2016), USC
  • M.A. Linguistics (2013), The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)
  • B.A. English (Honors), EFLU
  • Advanced Diploma in French, EFLU
    • Most of my research is in syntax
      • In my dissertation, I have provided an analysis of verbal ellipsis in fragment answers in Hindi which attested a novel paradigm that was not accounted for in previous literature.
      • worked on the structure of questions in Hindi, Bangla and Odia. 
      • in a morpho-syntax paper, I study cases where the focus particle attaches to a sub-constituent of the domain of focus in Bangla and Hindi and examine the relation between focus particle placement and scrambling within and outside the domain of logical focus.
      • My (collaborative) work on directionality of Agree while looking at long distance agreement in Hindi contributes to the debate on how agreement is constrained by syntax.
    • I also have research papers in:
      • Psycholinguistics - experimental self-paced reading study on how scope marking question words are processed.
      • Pragmatics - analyzed Indic discourse particle -to to play a role in common ground management. 
      • Sociolinguistics - looked at the different ways through which sexism is manifested in Hindi language.

Attended

2021
Dash, B, Datta, M and Simpson, A. Analyzing Hindi & Bangla -to: A case for Anti- Exhaustivity as a  Discourse Category. In Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) – 11, University of  Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Dash, B and Datta, M. ‘Interactions between Syntactic and Post-Syntactic Processes: A Case for  Multi-dominance’. In Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC) – 45. University of Pennsylvania,  Pennsylvania.

2020

Dash, B. ‘Biased questions and Answers in Hindi’. In (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages  (FASAL) – 10, Ohio State University, Ohio. [Poster]

Dash, B and Datta, M. ‘Focus Antipiedpiping in Bangla and Hindi’. In (Formal) Approaches to South  Asian Languages (FASAL) – 10, Ohio State University, Ohio.

2019

Dash, B. ‘Polarity says yes to IP Ellipsis’. In the South Asian Languages Analysis (SALA) Roundtable  – 35, National institute of oriental languages and civilizations (INALCO), Paris.

Dash, B. ‘Parametric Variation in Yes/No Fragment Answers’. In the 2019 Montreal-Ottawa-  Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop (MOTH)-19, Carleton University, Ottawa.

2018

Dash, B. ‘Fragment Answers in Hindi’. In Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) –  8, Wichita State University, Kansas.

Keine, S. & Dash, B. ‘Scrambling–agreement interactions and the cyclicity of Agree’. FASAL- 8.  Wichita State University, Kansas.

2017

Keine, S. & Dash, B. ‘The cyclicity of φ-Agree : Evidence from scrambling’. In North-East Linguistic  Society (NELS) 48, University of Iceland, Reykajavik.

Dash, B. & Kaiser, E. ‘Anticipatory Processing with an Impoverished Cue: An Experimental Study of  Wh-Scope Marking Constructions in Hindi’. In FASAL – 7. MIT, Boston. [poster]

Syed, S. & Dash, B. ‘Kya high ki low? An investigation of the yes/no particle in Hindi, Bangla, and  Odia’. In FASAL – 7. MIT, Boston

Syed, S. & Dash, B. ‘A Unified Account of The Yes/No Particle in Hindi, Bangla, And Odia’.  In Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) in Asia XI, National University of Singapore,  Singapore.

2014

Dash, B. 'Numeral Classifiers in Odia'. In International Conference of South Asian Languages and  Literatures 11 (ICOSAL 11), Banaras Hindu University, Varansi, India.

2013
Dash, B. & Guha, A. 'Modal and Lexical Properties of paaraa 'can' in Bangla and Odia'. In 1st  International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-1), Central Institute of Indian  Languages, Mysore, India.

 

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