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Manipur Univ


Lalit Rajkumar

Designation: Assistant Professor

Specialization: Generative Syntax

Contact: +91-8974922920 & +91-9953773476

Email: lalitrajkumar [AT] manipuruniv.ac.in

Ph.D.

Faculty Details Faculty List

Lalit Rajkumar

Curriculum Vitae: July 2024

lalitrajkumar [AT] manipuruniv.ac.in

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 26th 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

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

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

 

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 1st to 3rd February 2023 at Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh.

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

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

  • Participated in the 8th Linguistics Summer School in the Indian Mountains (LISSIM-8), from 24th May to 6th 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 1st to 3rd 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

  • 1st 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 (25th May – 7th June 2022).

  • 29th 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 (1st – 31st March 2022).

  • 24th 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 (1st – 31st March 2022).

  • 20th 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.

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

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

  • 4th 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 (25th May – 7th June 2022).

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

 

Invited Talks

  • 3rd 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).

  • 25th 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

  • 18th and 25th June; 2nd, 9th, 14th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th 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 3rd 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: 4th 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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