Lalit Rajkumar

Designation: Assistant Professor

Specialization: Generative Syntax

Contact: +91-8974922920 & +91-9953773476

Email: lalitrajkumar [AT] manipuruniv.ac.in

Ph.D.

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Lalit Rajkumar

Curriculum Vitae: July 2024

lalitrajkumar [AT] manipuruniv.ac.in

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Areas of Interest

• Syntax

  • Movement and Copy pronunciation issues in natural languages

  • Information Structure: core components and operations

  • Interface issues with Phonology, Morphology, Semantics, and Discourse

  • TAM (Tense, Aspect, Mood) and Modality

Teaching Experience

• December, 2015- Present (Assistant Professor, Manipur University)

Education

• Ph.D. in Linguistics (2021) from Jawaharlal Nehru University (Topic: ‘Information-Structure Related Doubling in Meiteilon’).

• M.Phil. in Linguistics (2013) from University of Delhi (Topic: ‘Nominal and Verbal Honorific Markers of Meiteilon’).

• Cleared UGC NET-JRF conducted on 26^th June, 2011.

• M.A. in Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics, University of Delhi (2007-2009).

• B.A. (General) from Dhanamanjuri College of Arts, Imphal, Manipur University (2004-2007).

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2024. “Morphology of Meiteilon Honorific Forms”. In Pranita Devi (ed.) Non-Aryan Languages of North-East India: Uttar-Pub Bharatar Arya-Bhinna Bhasa. Guwahati: Bandhav.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2024. “Topics as Entities: evidence from clausal-topicalization in Meiteilon”. Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics 6.2: 168-171. [UGC-CARE listed]

https://archive.org/details/jjll-6.2

• Sharma, H. Surmangol & Lalit Rajkumar. 2024. “Manipuri Phrase=gi makhal-sing amasung masak” (Types of phrases in Meiteilon and their structures). Sahityagi Pao 124: 38-41. [Sahitya Akademi Recognized Journal]

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2023. “Restrictions on the Volitional Mood in Meiteilon: A Morphosyntactic Study”. Anvesan 16: 201-213. [UGC-CARE listed]

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2023. “Nominal Honorification in Meiteilon”. Aligarh Journal of Linguistics 12: 291-300. [UGC-CARE listed]

https://api.amu.ac.in/storage//file/10353/file_management/1676006099.pdf

• Rajkumar, Lalit. (To appear). “Control in Meiteilon: a case of recoverable PRO”. In Bhatia, Sakshi and Dustin Chacón (eds.), Proceedings of Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 7.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2018. “Verb-Doubling vis-à-vis Copy Recoverability: an account of Verb-doubling in Meiteilon”. In Yoen-Mee Park (ed.), The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Generative Grammar, Proceedings of The 20th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar: 343-355.

http://www.sicogg.or.kr/pdf/SICOGG20_proceedings.pdf

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2016. “Sluicing the verbal double: a view through Meiteilon”. In Balusu, Rahul and Sandhya Sundaresan (Eds.), Proceedings of Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 5: 50-63. ISSN: 2510-2818.

https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/jsal/index.php/fasal/issue/view/14

Conference/Seminar Presentations

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2024. “Meiteilon as a strict negative concord language”. Paper presented at 27^th Himalayan Languages Symposium (HLS-27), 12^th – 14^th June 2024 organized by Centre for Linguistic Science and Technology at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2023b. “Self-hood as a feature: Evidences of Self versus Others in Meiteilon and Chiru”. Paper presented at the National Conference on Language and Linguistics (NCLL), 17^th – 18^th March 2023 organized by Department of Linguistics and Language Technology, Tezpur University, Assam.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2023a. “The Concept and Revelation of Self in languages: Evidences from Volitionality and Negation in Meiteilon and Chiru”. Paper presented at the 3-Day National Seminar on “Development and Promotion of Non-Scheduled Languages: Challenges and Opportunities in North East India”, 1^st – 3^rd February 2023 organized by Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies, Dahung, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh & Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2021. “Topics as Entities: evidence from clausal-topicalization in Meiteilon”. Paper presented at the 43^rd International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-43), 21^st - 23^rd December 2021 organized by the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore and Linguistic Society of India (LSI).

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2020. “Packaging of ‘Information Blocks’ and Movement”. Paper presented at the first Zoomdemic talk series (on 13^th April 2020), hosted by flingjnu.com from 1^st – 24^th April 2020, JNU, New Delhi.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2017. “Control in Meiteilon: a case of recoverable PRO”. Poster presented at the Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 7(FASAL-7), 4^th – 5^th March 2017 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2016. “Verbal Recursion in Meiteilon”. Paper presented at the 22^nd Himalayan Languages Symposium (HLS-22), 8^th – 10^th June 2016 at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.

• Rajkumar, Lalit and Reena Ashem. 2016. “Nominalization: a strategy for honorific enhancement”. Paper presented at the 12^th International Conference of South Asian Languages (ICOSAL-12), 7^th – 9^th January 2016 at University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2015b. “Verb-doubling/predicate-cleft constructions in Meiteilon”. Paper presented at the 37^th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-37), 15^th - 17^th October 2015 at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2015a. “Sluicing the verbal double: a view through Meiteilon”. Poster presented at the Fifth Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL-5), 11^th - 12^th April 2015 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2014b. “DO-support in Meiteilon: questioning the language specific-ness”. Paper presented at the International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-36), 1^st - 4^th December 2014 at University of Kerala, Kariavattom Campus, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2014a. “Verbal Doubling in Meiteilon”. Paper presented at the 30^th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA Roundtable-30), 6^th - 8^th February 2014 at Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad.

• Ashem, Reena and Lalit Rajkumar. 2013. “Syntax-phonology interface in Meiteilon suffixes: an account of /l/, /n/ distribution in the derived and underived paradigm”. Paper presented at the 35^th Annual & 1^st International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI), 27^th - 29^th November 2013 at the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2013. “Perfect in Meeteilon”. Paper presented at the Seventh Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-7), 8^th - 10^th February 2013 at AMU, Aligarh.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2011. “Wielding the double-edged Meiteilon Verbal Honorific Markers: in awe of the sharp edges of -čǝ/-ǰǝ and -pi/-bi”. Paper presented at the 44^th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, 7^th - 9^th October 2011 at CIIL, Mysore.

• Rajkumar, Lalit. 2010. “Problems and Prospects of Prototyping the Verbal Honorific Markers of Meiteilon”. Paper presented at the 32^nd All India Conference of Linguists, 21^st - 23^rd December 2010 at University of Lucknow.

 

WORSHOPS/SEMINARS

• Presented an invited talk titled, “The concept and revelation of self in languages: Evidences from volitionality and negation in Meiteilon and Chiru” in the National Seminar on “Development and Promotion of Non-Scheduled Languages: Challenges and Opportunities in North East India”, organized by Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India in collaboration with Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies, Dahung, Arunachal Pradesh & Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi held on 1^st to 3^rd February 2023 at Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh.

• Participated in the 9^th Linguistics Summer School in the Indian Mountains (LISSIM-9), from 24^th May to 6^th June 2015, held at Solang, Himachal Pradesh.

• Participated in a workshop titled, Clausal Complementation held on the 11^th and 12^th of December 2014 at Centre for Linguistics, JNU.

• Participated in the 8^th Linguistics Summer School in the Indian Mountains (LISSIM-8), from 24^th May to 6^th June 2014, held at Solang, Himachal Pradesh.

• Participated in the 7th Linguistics Summer School in the Indian Mountains (LISSIM-7), from 26th May to 15th June 2013, held at Sidhbari, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.

• Participated in the QIP sponsored workshop on the Faculty of Language: Design and Interfaces held from 11-12 February, 2013 at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

 

Organization of Academic Events

• As a Local Coordinator, Organized a 3-Day National Conference titled, “Languages and Knowledge System: Distinctiveness and Prosperous Features of Texts and Oratures in North East India” in Collaboration with the Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (Dr. G. Amarjit Sharma and Dr. Kh. Bijoykumar Singh as Co-Coordinators) from 1^st to 3^rd March 2023, which was fully funded by the Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti, Ministry of Education, Government of India.

• Organized a Fortnightly Departmental Seminar titled LING-MEET from May to December 2022.

 

Other Presentations

• 1^st June 2022. Presented an online lightning talk on the topic, “Predicate Cleft Constructions” as a part of Seminar Presentation task during the Refresher Course in Linguistics organized by UGC-HRDC NEHU Shillong (25^th May – 7^th June 2022).

• 29^th March 2022. Presented an online lightning talk on the topic, “Understanding Information Structure” as a part of Seminar Presentation task during the Faculty Induction Programme (FIP-04/05) organized by UGC-HRDC Manipur University (1^st – 31^st March 2022).

• 24^th March 2022. Presented an online lightning talk on the topic, “Knowledge of Language” as a part of Micro-Teaching task during the Faculty Induction Programme (FIP-04/05) organized by UGC-HRDC Manipur University (1^st – 31^st March 2022).

• 20^th August 2018. Presented a paper titled, “The Status of Meiteilon in the Tibeto-Burman Family” at the Seminar on Manipuri Language organized by Dhanamanjuri College of Arts, Imphal.

• Oct, 2014. Presented a paper titled, ‘DO-support in Meiteilon: questioning the language specific-ness’ at Lingchai, IIT Delhi.

• 19^th Oct, 2013. Presented a paper titled, “Nominal and Verbal Honorific Markers of Meiteilon” at the Monthly Seminar of the Manipur Research Forum (MRF), JNU.

• 4^th Oct, 2013. Presented a paper titled, “Nominal and Verbal Honorific Markers of Meiteilon” at Lingchai, IIT Delhi.

• 4^th Sept, 2013. Presented a paper titled, “A morpho-phonological analysis of the /l/-initial suffixes of Meiteilon”, at the JNU Phonetics-Phonology Colloquium (JNU_PPC), JNU.

 

Courses Attended

• Participated in the Refresher Course in Linguistics organized by UGC-HRDC NEHU Shillong (25^th May – 7^th June 2022).

• Participated in the Faculty Induction Programme 2021-22 (FIP-04/05) organized by UGC-HRDC Manipur University (1^st – 31^st March 2022).

 

Invited Talks

• 3^rd March 2021. Delivered an online invited talk on the topic ‘Repetitions in Meiteilon’ as a part of Meiteilon Spring Language Online Program 2021, American Institute for Indian Studies (AIIS).

• 25^th March 2021. Delivered an online invited talk on the topic ‘Information Structure Related Doubling in Meiteilon’ as a part of the Advanced Syntax Course of MA (Linguistics) Programme, University of Delhi.

 

Guest Lectures

• 18^th and 25^th June; 2^nd, 9^th, 14^th, 16^th, 23^rd, and 30^th July 2020. Delivered 8 weekly Guest Lectures on various topics of Meiteilon as a part of Meiteilon Summer Language Online Program 2020, American Institute for Indian Studies (AIIS).

Courses Taught

• LIN-105: Introduction to Syntax

• LIN-204: Intermediate Syntax

• LIN-405: Advanced Syntax

• LIN-301: Semantics (Co-teaching)

• LIN-101: Introduction to Language and Linguistics (Co-teaching)

• LIN-103: Tibeto-Burman Linguistics (Co-teaching)

• LIN-401: Field Methods (Co-teaching)

• LIN-305: General Linguistics-I (Choice-Based Credit System paper) (Co-teaching)

 

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Formal Studies in the Syntax and Semantics of Indian Languages (FOSSSIL). (Annual Membership: 2013, 2014, 2015).

• Linguistic Society of India: Life Member since 3^rd December 2014 (Membership no.: 42/14).

• Dravidian Linguistic Association of India: Life Member since October 2021 (Membership no.: 1446/2021).

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth: 4^th September 1986

Languages: Meiteilon, English, and Hindi

Address: Chingmeirong Mamang Leikai,

Lane-3, Chingkhong Lambi,

Imphal East, Manipur-795001

Mobile: +91-8974922920 & +91-9953773476

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