Biography
I am a linguist with theoretical and practical experience in the morphology of South Asian languages and Indian Sign Language. My research focuses on the morphosyntactic and typological structure of numeral systems, particularly in the tribal and indigenous languages of India.
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. As part of QUANTA — Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification, I study the cultural and linguistic drivers of the diversification of numeral systems in Southeast Asia and beyond.
I am passionate about exploring languages and cultures, and about language documentation and preservation.
- Numeral systems and quantification
- Linguistic typology and morphosyntax
- South Asian tribal and indigenous languages
- Indian Sign Language
- Language documentation and preservation
PhD in Linguistics, 2021
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
MPhil in Linguistics, 2016
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
MA in Linguistics, 2014
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
BA in Functional English, 2012
St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi, India
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Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.