Ph.D. (1995), University of Hyderabad
Ph.D. (1999), University College London
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Language: Evolution, Peopling, Sign Language/Linguistics, Language and Education
Linguistics: Generative Syntax, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman and Austroasiatic Typology and Syntax, Morphology, Psycholinguistics
Disability Studies: Critical DisabilityStudies, Inclusive Education, Deaf Studies
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Scopus Publications
Optionality and variation in agreement in some participles in Hindi-Urdu Tanmoy Bhattacharya Trends in South Asian Linguistics, 2021 Optionality in participial agreement in Hindi was noted in Kachru (2006: 163), where an adverbial participle may optionally agree with the subject NP in number and gender if the NP is in the direct case. For the present paper, I expand this observation further and demonstrate the existence of extensive (syntactic) variation in participial agreement in Hindi with data that has not been reported or analyzed in the literature. In the case of relative participles, where Kachru did not report any variation, the range of judgments indicates a general reluctance of the number feature to be available too low in the structure; this becomes apparent if we use an object relative in these constructions; the optionality in participial subject agreement that Kachru captured seems to take place in the case of participial object agreement as well. For the complex adjectival/ adverbial adjuncts, though Kachru (2006) reported variation by one factor, the extent of variation is found to be much wider. The judgments on these variants indicate that the feature of person seems to be available high up in the clause and gender lower down but it is number that hovers in between. This is in line with the general observation that participle agreement is with number and gender and never with person, unlike subject agreement in general - another reason why this type of agreement should be seen as different from (subject) argument agreement on verbs. Theoretically, the findings indicate that the trigger for the number agreement cannot be lower than at least the main clause aspectual head. The paper proposes three distinct syntactic operations - valuation, relaying, and copying which, together with standard Agree applying top-down, derive the full range of the results obtained.
Service and knowledge: The emergence of disability studies extension Tanmoy Bhattacharya Disability Studies in India Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2020 One of the issues confronting higher education in India is iniquitous access for different social groups. Among the prominent disparities leading to inequity in higher education participation, disability does not figure in the collective consciousness of various institutions. In this context, I will propose that a clear delineation between the role and function of Enabling Units and Disability Studies Centres must be understood and respected since the genesis of the two ideas, namely, service and knowledge, traditionally follows different routes to achieve a common goal, that of improving the status of persons with disabilities in the society. However, an overlap in the nature of the products of the sectors is unavoidable and in fact not entirely unwelcome if disability studies were to act as the ‘theoretical arm’ of the disability rights movement. However, this ultimate situation need not obfuscate the difference in the origins of paths taken. Apart from seeking clarity of purpose in policy documents, this chapter importantly raises the question of the contribution of knowledge to service (and vice versa) and proposes the notion of a subfield ‘Disability Studies Extension’, a thorough understanding of the nature of which is essential for identifying either service or knowledge.
Sluicing in Indo-Aryan: An investigation of Bangla and Hindi Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Andrew Simpson Sluicing Cross Linguistic Perspectives, 2012 Abstract This chapter establishes a profile of sluicing constructions in two widely-spoken Indo-Aryan languages of South Asia: Bangla and Hindi. Although traditionally described as being wh-in-situ languages, both Bangla and Hindi have a distribution of wh-elements that suggests that they are actually languages with overt wh-movement (Simpson and Bhattacharya 2003) and so might be expected to permit sluicing formed by wh-movement and PF clausal deletion, as hypothesized for languages such as English. The chapter attempts to determine the degree to which sluicing in Bangla/Hindi may parallel or differ from the production of sluicing in English-type languages, and also how it may relate to sluicing patterns in typologically closer Japanese, where sluicing is often assumed to have a rather different syntactic derivation from that in English. The chapter also investigates the potential effect of movement-associated constraints on sluicing in Bangla/Hindi, in particular Superiority, Subjacency, and the CED.
Diagnosing double object constructions in Bangla/Bengali Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Andrew Simpson Lingua, 2011 This paper examines whether the complex paradigm of patterns reported for ditransitive verbs in Japanese by Miyagawa (1997) and Miyagawa and Tsujioka (2004) might appear in another genetically unrelated but typologically similar SOV scrambling language, Bangla/ Bengali. A striking parallelism is found in the two languages, which adds strength to the proposal in Miyagawa (1997) and Miyagawa and Tsujioka (2004) that certain languages allow for variation in the underlying projection of Themes and Locative Goals and there is no fully fixed, single structuring of the lower arguments of ditransitive verbs. Such conclusions about the base forms of double object constructions are shown to have potentially broader implications bearing on the Universal Base Hypothesis.
Re-examining issue of inclusion in education Economic and Political Weekly, 2010
Designing a Common POS-Tagset Framework for Indian Languages Ijcnlp 2008 6th Workshop on Asian Language Resources Alr 2008 Proceedings of the Workshop, 2008
A common Parts-of-Speech tagset framework for Indian languages Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Lrec 2008, 2008
Obligatory overt wh-movement in a wh-in-situ language Andrew Simpson, Tanmoy Bhattacharya Linguistic Inquiry, 2003 Bangla has commonly been assumed to be an SOV wh-in-situ language. Here it is suggested that both of these characterizations are incorrect and that Bangla actually has obligatory overt wh-movement from a basic SVO word order. This is disguised by a conspiracy of factors but revealed in restrictions on wh-scope and certain apparently optional word order possibilities with complement clauses. Adopting a different perspective on the SOV status of Bangla allows for a simple explanation of the patterns observed and raises the possibility that other “wh-in-situ” languages may also have (obligatory) overt wh-movement.
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Traditional Children's Games in India: Unlearning the Attributes of Subordination T Bhattacharya The Routledge handbook of postcolonial disability studies, 190-200 , 2024 2024 Citations: 3
Multilinguality as Mirroring the Primal Scene of Language Acquisition T Bhattacharya Inaugural talk delivered at the Decolonising Higher Education: Multilingual … , 2023 2023
4.1 The status of Agree studies T Bhattacharya, J Sharma Angles of Object Agreement 81, 84 , 2022 2022
Language and Culture T Bhattacharya The Routledge Companion to Northeast India, 284-291 , 2022 2022 Citations: 1
Language and Migration T Bhattacharya The Routledge Companion to Northeast India, 292-298 , 2022 2022
Unfolding (of) theories, not programmes (programs?) T Bhattacharya Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies 2 (1), 66-71 , 2022 2022 Citations: 1
Shifting the epistemic centre: teachings from sign linguistics T Bhattacharya Critical Essays on Disability Rights Jurisprudence: Combating Exclusion … , 2021 2021 Citations: 4
The killing of Eyad Al-Hallaq by the Israeli border police on 30 May 2020 T Bhattacharya Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies 1 (1), 71-76 , 2021 2021 Citations: 1
Optionality and variation in agreement in some Hindi participles T Bhattacharya Trends in South Asian Linguistics, 77-117 , 2021 2021
Optionality and variation in agreement in some participles in Hindi-Urdu T Bhattacharya Trends in South Asian Linguistics 367, 77 , 2021 2021 Citations: 1
Are We All Alike? Questioning the Pathologies of the ‘Normate’ T Bhattacharya Modern Transformations and the Challenges of Inequalities in Education in … , 2021 2021 Citations: 8
Building with Care: A Review of ‘Art Criticism and the Pandemic' T Bhattacharya Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies (InJCDS) 1 (1) , 2020 2020
Service and knowledge: The emergence of disability studies extension T Bhattacharya Disability studies in India: Interdisciplinary perspectives, 111-132 , 2020 2020 Citations: 5
Pronominalisation in South Asian Languages: Of People and their Actions T Bhattacharya Nepalese Linguistics, 60-68 , 2018 2018 Citations: 2
Disability Studies as Resistance: The Politics of Estrangement T Bhattacharya Disability in South Asia: Knowledge and Experience, 75-98 , 2018 2018 Citations: 5
Policy Report on “Peer to Peer Deaf Literacy”(P2PDL) T Bhattacharya, HR Fan, J Gillen, S Mathew, S Panda, U Papen, ... 2017 Citations: 1
To be human: The introduction T Bhattacharya neScholar 3 (4), 11 , 2017 2017
Adoption of universal design for learning for meaningful inclusion T Bhattacharya Empowering children with disabilities, 404-424 , 2017 2017 Citations: 16
Peopling of the Northeast: Part 2 T Bhattacharya neScholar 2 (04), 66-75 , 2016 2016
Diversity at Workplace and Education T Bhattacharya Interrogating Disability in India: Theory and Practice,, 39-64 , 2016 2016 Citations: 14
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Semi-lexical categories: The function of content words and the content of function words N Corver, H van Riemsdijk Walter de Gruyter , 2013 2013 Citations: 326
Obligatory Overt Wh -Movement in a Wh -in-Situ Language A Simpson, T Bhattacharya Linguistic inquiry 34 (1), 127-142 , 2003 2003 Citations: 156
The structure of the Bangla DP T Bhattacharya PQDT-Global , 1999 1999 Citations: 115
Re-examining issue of inclusion in education T Bhattacharya Economic and Political Weekly, 18-25 , 2010 2010 Citations: 71
Specificity in the Bangla DP T Bhattacharya Yearbook of South Asian languages and linguistics 2, 71-99 , 1999 1999 Citations: 64
A common parts-of-speech tagset framework for indian languages S Baskaran, K Bali, T Bhattacharya, P Bhattacharyya, GN Jha In Proc. of LREC 2008 , 2008 2008 Citations: 61
Sluicing: Cross-linguistic perspectives J Merchant, A Simpson Oxford University Press , 2012 2012 Citations: 57
DP-internal NP movement T Bhattacharya UCL working papers in linguistics 10 , 1998 1998 Citations: 48
Numeral/Quantifier-Classifier as a complex T Bhattacharya Semi-lexical categories: The function of content words and the content of … , 2001 2001 Citations: 38
Designing a common POS-tagset framework for Indian languages B Sankaran, K Bali, T Bhattacharya, P Bhattacharyya, GN Jha, ... Proceedings of the 6th workshop on Asian language resources , 2008 2008 Citations: 37
Sluicing in Indo-Aryan: an investigation of Bangla and Hindi T Bhattacharya, A Simpson Sluicing in a cross-linguistic perspective, 183-219 , 2012 2012 Citations: 32
Bangla T Bhattacharya Facts About the Worl’s Languages: An Encyclope ia of the Worl’s Major … , 2001 2001 Citations: 31
Peripheral and clause-internal complementizers in Bangla: A case for remnant movement T Bhattacharya 2002 Citations: 27
The puzzle of Bangla Comp-internal clauses T Bhattacharya Snippets 3, 6-7 , 2001 2001 Citations: 23
Argument structure EJ Reuland, G Spathas, T Bhattacharya John Benjamins Publishing Company , 2007 2007 Citations: 21
Wh clausal pied piping in Bangla A Simpson, T Bhattacharya PROCEEDINGS-NELS 30, 583-596 , 2000 2000 Citations: 19
Diagnosing double object constructions in Bangla/Bengali T Bhattacharya, A Simpson Lingua 121 (6), 1067-1082 , 2011 2011 Citations: 17
Adoption of universal design for learning for meaningful inclusion T Bhattacharya Empowering children with disabilities, 404-424 , 2017 2017 Citations: 16
In search of the vague ‘One.’ T Bhattacharya Proceedings of ConSOLE 7, 33-48 , 2000 2000 Citations: 16
Diversity at Workplace and Education T Bhattacharya Interrogating Disability in India: Theory and Practice,, 39-64 , 2016 2016 Citations: 14
