Research
Academic Staff
All the faculty members
are involved in research and publications (see Faculty Profile for more
details).
Dr. Avinash Pandey
Research projects
1.
‘Orality in the Structuralist Philosophy of Language’ funded by
ICPR, New Delhi during the period 2011-2013.
2.
‘Linguistic Landscape of Vasai’ a minor research project funded
by UGC was completed during the period 2011-2012.
-
Co- Principal
Investigator for a project on ‘Development of Pronunciation Lexicon
based on Experimental Studies of Phonetics and Phonemics of 5 Indian
Languages, Marathi Chapter’ in collaboration with Dr. Nandini Bondale,
TIFR funded by Department of Information Technology through TIFR, Mumbai
for the period 2012-2015.
Research Fellowship
Associate Fellow of UGC Inter-University Centre of Humanities and Social
Sciences at IIAS, Shimla for the period 2012-2015.
Ph.D. and M.Phil.
Programme
A list of the Ph.D.
students and their research titles in recent years is as follows:
Name of the
Student |
Title
|
Ms. Renuka Ozarkar |
“Structures of
Marathi Verbs”
|
Ms. Shaima Al-Issa
|
“Literary
Narratives, Culture and Ideology : A
Semiolinguistic
Study of Orhan Pamuk’s Fictional Discourse” |
Ms. Anjali Singh
|
“English in India
and in Japan”
|
Mr. Mohammad B.
Aghaei
|
“A Semiotic
Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Novels” |
Mr. Jalvi Rajeev
Ramkrishna |
‘Hearing
Impairment and Linguistic Development : Issues and
Perspectives’ |
A list of the current
M.Phil students and titles of their research is as follows:
Name of the
Student |
Area/Topic of
Research |
Ms. Manasi
Nadkarni |
Sociolinguistics
variation in Konkani of Goa
|
Ms. Vrushali Surve |
Stylistic Analysis
of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland
|
Ms. Harsha Bhatt |
Yet to be decided
|
MA Programme
The MA students in the
Department submit a dissertation as part of the Field Methods course in the
4th Semester, in which they collect the data and analyse the
structures of a language not known to them. The MA students in the
Department have worked on the various aspects of the following languages:
Indo-Ayan
languages |
Maithili |
|
Konkani |
|
Kachhi |
Tibeto-Burman |
Tangkhul Naga |
|
Mizo |
Dravidian |
Tulu |
|
Malayalam |
Austro-Aslatic |
Khasi |
|