Research Portfolio

Discover our ongoing projects, publications, and contributions to the field of language and cognition research.

2024-2026

Navigating Grammatical Voice to Explore Communication Strategies

A cross-linguistic study of select Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages examining how grammatical voice systems facilitate different communication strategies across diverse linguistic communities.

Funded by: Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi
2024-2025

Skilling the Unskilled and the Less Skilled

A comprehensive need analysis study focusing on skill development requirements in the context of Odisha, examining linguistic and cognitive barriers to effective training programs.

Funded by: Aspire Infolabs, Hyderabad
2021-2023

Climate Change, Language Vulnerability, and Culture Death

A critical case study examining the impact of climate change on linguistic diversity and cultural preservation in the Eastern coastal region of India under warming scenarios.

Funded by: Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
2020-2023

Copula Constructions in Indo-Aryan Languages

A detailed investigation of copula constructions from typological and discourse pragmatic perspectives, focusing on variation patterns across Indo-Aryan language families.

Funded by: Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
2022-2023

Detection & Quantification of Gender Bias in Official Text

An innovative study examining gender bias in academic and official communications within the Indian academic setting using computational linguistics and corpus analysis methods.

Funded by: American Express
2017-2018

Morphosyntax and Discourse Pragmatics

An extensive study of linguistic constructions in South Asian languages, examining the interface between morphosyntactic structures and discourse-pragmatic functions.

Funded by: Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai