Somdev Kar
Associate professor at the Dept of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS), IIT Ropar, India.
I completed my PhD in Linguistics (Phonology and Morphology of Bangla syllable structure) from the University of Tübingen in Germany. My area of specializations are Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology.
Before joining IIT Ropar I worked at the Center for General Linguistics (Berlin, Germany), Central Institute of Indian Languages (Mysore, India) and in Qatar University (Doha, Qatar).
Supervisors: Prof. Hubert Truckenbrodt
Phone: +91-1881-232265
Address: Dept. of HSS,
IIT Ropar
Rupnagar 140001, Punjab
India
I completed my PhD in Linguistics (Phonology and Morphology of Bangla syllable structure) from the University of Tübingen in Germany. My area of specializations are Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology.
Before joining IIT Ropar I worked at the Center for General Linguistics (Berlin, Germany), Central Institute of Indian Languages (Mysore, India) and in Qatar University (Doha, Qatar).
Supervisors: Prof. Hubert Truckenbrodt
Phone: +91-1881-232265
Address: Dept. of HSS,
IIT Ropar
Rupnagar 140001, Punjab
India
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The first part of this three part study focuses on the frequency of occurrences of different consonant clusters in Bangla. It argues that these clusters are best described with the help of the Bangla lexicon into three strata that include native Bangla words (NB) as well as Sanskrit borrowings (SB) and the other borrowings (OB). This part of the study focuses on the analysis of these syllabic structures in Bangla with the help of the Optimality Theory (OT).
The second part of the study focuses on a morphological analysis of the standard verbal inflectional paradigms of Bangla in the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM). This includes categories of tense/mood, levels of politeness and persons. This analysis is then compared with the English verbal inflectional morphology. In a later stage, Kar picks up the Optimality Theory from where he left it at the first part and applies it to analyze the outcomes of the morphological analysis in DM and following phonological changes on them."
Papers by Somdev Kar
The first part of this three part study focuses on the frequency of occurrences of different consonant clusters in Bangla. It argues that these clusters are best described with the help of the Bangla lexicon into three strata that include native Bangla words (NB) as well as Sanskrit borrowings (SB) and the other borrowings (OB). This part of the study focuses on the analysis of these syllabic structures in Bangla with the help of the Optimality Theory (OT).
The second part of the study focuses on a morphological analysis of the standard verbal inflectional paradigms of Bangla in the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM). This includes categories of tense/mood, levels of politeness and persons. This analysis is then compared with the English verbal inflectional morphology. In a later stage, Kar picks up the Optimality Theory from where he left it at the first part and applies it to analyze the outcomes of the morphological analysis in DM and following phonological changes on them."
NLP is an emerging area of research in the recent time, though its history dates back to 1950s. The human language as a complex system of communication possesses enormous possibility and change towards the computer-savvy world. Computer Scientists and Engineers are working with Linguists, Psychologists and cognitive Scientists to give solutions to various issues related to the natural language and trying to give “computers” the linguistic ability to humans.
This talk aims at the introduction to some basics of NLP as well as computational linguistics. We shall discuss the dominant areas of NLP worldwide and in our country. We look into the success and possibilities of collaborative efforts where technologists and linguists contribute to the expansion of NLP.
An extensive corpus study is used in this work in order to determine the frequency of occurrences for a certain sound or cluster of sounds. The findings are basically applied in the optimality theoretic analysis. In general, some of the well known phonological operations, such as gemination, vowel deletion, certain sound-restrictions etc are attempted to be analyzed in the framework of optimality theory and distributed morphology.
This paper presents an overview of the phonology and sociolinguistic situation of Kanauji as it is spoken in Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Kanauji is spoken by more than six million people across seven districts, i.e., Auraiya, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Hardoi, Kanpur, Mainpuri, Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur, of Uttar Pradesh, India in various forms. It falls within EDGIS 6b (see Ethnologue 2013) and therefore deserves immediate reinvigoration policies. Among these verities, Kanauji of Kanpur presents very interesting case in various linguistic levels due to heavy confluence of other languages/dialects such as Standard Hindi, English, Awadhi, Braj, Bhojpuri, etc. (Chaturvedi 2015).
Till date no extensive work on Kanauji has been reported after Linguistic survey of India (1894-1928) conducted by George A. Grierson. However, some scholars while working on different languages and across different disciplines have used examples from Kanauji as supplementary materials (see Trivedi 1993, 2005; Mishra and Bali 2010, 2011).
Apart from throwing insights into the current sociolinguistic situation, this work describes basic phonemic inventory, consonants clusters, diphthongs, syllable structure and some phonological processes such as epenthesis, deletion and reduplication in Kanauji.
The study is a result of twenty days of fieldwork in some rural and urban areas of Kanpur Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh and subsequent preparation of a small speech database of Kanauji. This database (speech and text) consists of basic word lists, basic sentences, free discourse, stories, folktales, interviews, etc. elicited by a range of native speakers (both male and female) belonging to diverse age groups, educational backgrounds and professions.
Although the paper specifically focuses on Kanauji spoken in Kanpur, it is assumed that it also represents other forms of Kanauji till some extent. Wherever it is required, suitable examples from Standard Hindi and other Indian languages are given to make the paper more explanatory and more descriptive in nature.
Keywords: Endangered Languages, Kanauji, Kanpuria Hindi, Western Hindi, Indian Languages, Phonology