Topic:
Introduction to Linguistics
Abstract:
This talk will introduce the area of Linguistics to the participants of the Summer School on NLP. Topics covered will be the traditional layers – Morphology, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics & beyond. The Morphology would be emphasized as the Summer School includes a Morphology lab in Indian languages.
In addition, the speaker would involve the students on examples drawn from south Asian languages. No prerequisite is expected for this lecture, though some familiarity with the languages themselves would be desirable.
Bio of the Speaker:
K.V.Subbarao, formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of Delhi, is a linguist with specialization in syntactic theory, syntactic typology with special reference to South Asian languages and syntactic convergence. He was a Visiting Professor at ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies for two years and at the University of Hamburg for a semester. He is at present finishing a book on the syntactic typology of South Asian languages for the Cambridge University Press, U.K.
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