Semiotics and Asymmetry in Bangla Morphology

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This monograph reexamines morphological regularities, co-articulating Rajendra Singh and Alan Ford's Whole Word Morphology framework with considerations of phonological naturalness. This installment of the decades-long debate about the proper handling of vowel harmony phenomena in Bangla revisits the verb data, opens up some nominal data, and broaches architectural issues that theoreticians of all persuasions will have to address. Building on semiotics-focused extensions of the Elsewhere Convention, this study deploys new semiotic devices that shed light on key phonic asymmetries in Bangla. Combining formal methods with semiotics in this fashion is the hallmark of the substantivist approach to linguistics.

Probal Dasgupta taught linguistics at universities in Kolkata, Pune and Hyderabad before retiring from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. The Otherness of English: India's Auntie Tongue Syndrome is his best-known book. The present study is based on his student Nivedita Mitra's 2019 Kolkata University Ph.D. thesis; she is currently guest-teaching linguistics at Sanskrit College and University and at Ram Mohan College.

Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute (Deemed to be University) celebrated its bicentenary on the 6th October 2021 The Publications Committee of the Bicentenary Celebrations had taken a decision to publish about 20 monographs to mark the completion of two hundred years of its existence. Experts were invited from the disciplines of the three departments of the Institute- Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Linguistics and Sanskrit Lexicography as well as from Library Science. The quality and range of the areas covered in these publications is reassuring about the continuing research in these areas at the Institute known for its rich and invaluable contributions. The manuscripts from external experts show the trust and faith they have reposed in the intellectual commitment of the university. We are able to put in your hands 14 of the proposed 20 volumes, chosen on grounds of critical peer reviews. I can say in full faith that these monographs reflect the signs of progress and growth of the Institute, and that they convey not only the content, but also the abiding interest of the Institute in the unmixed pursuit of knowledge.

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