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Bangla has four different verbs corresponding to the English be. While copula verbs are often assumed to make no meaning contribution, languages with multiple copulas challenge this. I examine the behavior of the copula verbs in Bangla to ask what kinds of semantic contrasts are encoded by their distribution, and what each copula might contribute to the meaning of the clause.
There has been a longstanding debate about whether if-counterfactuals have two distinct readings: ‘ontic’ and ‘epistemic’. This project presents evidence for such a divide using new data from the Bangla conditional connective jodi, which allows ontic readings but systematically blocks epistemic readings.
Most people can speak multiple varieties of a language, and they often adjust their speech depending on the social or linguistic context. This study analyzes political commentator Fareed Zakaria’s English over 21 years, showing how he shifts between Indian English and American English when addressing different audiences. The findings highlight how conscious choices and automatic language processes shape the way speakers adapt their speech in context, and how this compares to bilingual speech.
What is the role of the antecedent clause in a conditional? Examining a set of restrictions on the tense/aspect of the antecedent clause in Bangla conditionals, I argue that these reflect a single modal restriction: the antecedent proposition must be open in a historical modal base. This suggests that conditionals can invoke modality in the antecedent that is independent of the modal flavor of the consequent, that this is a linguistically-relevant dimension of contrast in conditionals, and therefore that some part of conditional ‘iffiness’ must be lexically specified. This is difficult to explain under analyses where the antecedent simply restricts the domain of evaluation of the consequent.
This project compares patterns of coarticulation in harmonic vs. non-harmonic vowel sequences to understand how a low-level phonetic process interacts with phonological constraints.
Indian English allows for a use of only that differs from its more well-known ‘exclusive’ use. This work attempts to explain certain non-entailed inferences of exclusivity that arise from the use of IE only in terms of interactions between it’s presuppositional meaning and pragmatic processes.
This project examines the phonetic outcome of mixed language processing in the speech of multilingual individuals.
This project proposes a semantic account for the distribution and inferences associated with the copula verb ach- in Bangla, and its links to the progressive and perfect aspect morphology.
This project examines how cross-language interaction affects adaptive speech behavior in multilingual listeners, and possible sources of individual differences.
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