Contact Information

E-mail : kumar[*AT]iitp.ac.in
Personal Webpage : Kumar.htm

Phone :

Fax :  +91-612-2277383

Research Interest

Linguistic Theory (Syntax of Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman Languages), Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching, Language in Education, Cognitive Science/Linguistics.

Teaching

HS221: Fundamentals of Linguistics Science
HS721: Trends in Linguistic Theory
HS712: Essential English

Publications

Book:

1. Kumar, R. 2006. Negation and licensing of negative polarity items in Hindi syntax, New York/London: Routledge.

Journals:

1. Kumar, R 2001 ‘Shift from Maithili to Hindi: A Sociolinguistics Study’ in Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, U.S.A. 31:2 pp 127-142.
 
2. Kumar, R 2004. ‘Negation in the Clause Structure of Hindi’, in Adams, N., Cooper, A., Parrill, F. & Wier, T. eds. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
 
3. Kumar, R 2005. ‘Two types of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi’, in Kamal L. Sridhar and S.N. Sridhar eds. Language and Linguistics in South Asia: Selected Papers from SALA 24, Delhi: Manohar Publications.
 
4. Kumar, R. and Karumuri V. Subbarao 2005. ‘Postposition incorporation and internally headed relative clauses in Hmar’ Yadava, Y. et al. eds Contemporary issues in Nepalese Linguistics, Kathmandu: Linguistics Society of Nepal.
 
5. Benmamoun, E. and Rajesh Kumar 2006. ‘Overt Licensing of NPIs in Hindi’, in Singh, R. (ed) The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 31-48. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
 
6. Kumar, R 2009. Morpho-syntax of Hindi Infinitives in SC Chaudhary and I Hasnain (eds) South Asian Linguistics. Delhi: Manohar.

 

Last updated : 29th September, 2009