- Formal Semantics
- Syntax
- Pragmatics (and their interface)
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My PhD research investigates the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of wh-exclamative constructions in Bangla, an understudied South Asian Indo-Aryan language. It focuses on matrix wh-exclamatives, multiple and reduplication of the wh-elements, and their interaction with negation, with the aim of developing a unified compositional analysis. This line of inquiry has naturally led to a broader investigation of wh-questions, including a novel interrogative form in Bangla marked by the demonstrative suffix -e, which yields egocentric questions—characterized by speaker-oriented surprise and varying between rhetorical and information-seeking interpretations. I have also briefly explored the distribution of indefinites in Bangla and Hindi-Urdu, focusing on their acceptability in polar disjoint interrogatives and their incompatibility with alternative questions. This work engages with the syntax and semantics of interrogative structures and the behavior of disjunction particles. Additionally, I have explored aspects of tense and aspect in Bangla, as well as conditional constructions, with particular attention to ‘even-if’ conditionals.
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