Re: [Invitation] Lecture by Dr. Diti Bhadra on 16/01/2018 at 0300pm
Samir Karmakar
Dear All,At present, Dr. Bhadra is teaching in the Linguistics Department of Harvard University. Earlier she has taught in Princeton University and Rutgers University.
Dr. Diti Bhadra will deliver a lecture on "Interfacing with Interfaces" in School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University on 16th January, 2018 at 0300pm. Note, this time the venue of the lecture is Conference Room, Department of Philosophy, Jadvpur University. An abstract can be found just after the following introduction of Dr. Diti Bhadra:
Dr. Diti Bhadra is an aspiring linguist. After finishing her Master degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Linguistics, Dr. Bhadra joined the PhD programme of Rutgers University. She has recently finished her PhD research on "Evidentiality and Questions: Bangla at the Interfaces" - a copy of which can be found here: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003695
Dr. Bhadra's primary interests lie in exploring the abstract representations of structure and meaning with respect to perspective-sensitivity, epistemic and doxastic domains, speech acts, bias, finiteness, disjunction, alternatives, and ellipsis. She is also interested in typology and neurolinguistics, especially in investigating the cross-linguistic predictions of linguistic theories and the cognitive and neural aspects of language processing.
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Diti Bhadra
The syntactic module, the semantic module, and the pragmatic module in our grammars interact in myriad ways, giving us vital insight into the human language faculty. In recent years, a whole host of linguistic phenomena have been studied through the lens of these interfaces. In this talk, I will describe specific empirical problems and issues that cut across the traditional domains of grammar, such as questions (polar, alternative, split, biased, tag), evidentiality, epistemic modality, and speech acts. I will suggest that these multifaceted phenomena are best studied with analytic tools that are informed by both syntax and semantics, as well as pragmatics. Specifically, I will focus on empirical patterns found in South Asian languages and argue that an interface-oriented view and analysis can provide us with novel understanding about the wide-ranging yet very understudied domains in these languages.
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