Rajesh Kumar

About

Rajesh Kumar is a professor of linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He obtained his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining IIT Madras, he taught at IIT Kanpur and IIT Patna in India and at the University of Texas at Austin in the USA. He has been a visiting faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai in India. His book on Syntax of Negation and Licensing of Negative Polarity Items was published by Routledge in their prestigious series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics in 2006. He is the associate editor of the journal Language and Language Teaching. He has been part of the language teaching program at all the institutions he has been affiliated with. The broad goal of his research is to uncover regularities underlying both the form (what language is) and sociolinguistic functions (what language does) of natural languages.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Professor
  2019 - Present
• IIT Madras Associate Professor
  2014 - 2019
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Assistant Professor
  2012 - 2014
• IIT Patna Assistant Professor
  2009 - 2012
• University of Texas at Austin Visiting Faculty
  2007 - 2009
• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Assistant Professor
  2006 - 2007
• University of Texas at Austin Lecturer
  2002 - 2006
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Teaching Associate
  2000 - 2002
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Teaching Assistant
  1998 - 2000

Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PhD
  1998 - 2003
• University of Delhi MPhil
  1997 - 1998
• University of Delhi MA
  1995 - 1997

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (42)

• Learn English in Tamil
  National Academic Press 2023
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• Hindi Vakya Sanrachna me Nakaratmak Shabd (Negation Words in Hindi Clause Structure)
  LG Publishers 2023
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• Language Studies in India
  Springer Nature Singapore 2023 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-5276-0
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• Negation in Select South Asian Languages
  Variation in South Asian Languages 2023 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-1149-3_3
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• Towards an Understanding of Micro-variations: Decoding the Hierarchical Module of Variation and the Correlates of Mappila Malayalam
  Variation in South Asian Languages 2023 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-1149-3_8
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• Choice of language in the construction of cultural identity by Tamil speakers in India
  International Journal of Language and Culture 2023 DOI: 10.1075/ijolc.00045.eld
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• Language, Mind, and Society
  Orient Blackswan 2022
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• Structures and functions of noun modification in Hindi
  Nominalization Theory and Linguistic Analysis 2021
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• Some landmarks in the history of ideas
  Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur and APU, Bangaluru 2021
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• Linguistic Foundations of Identity
  Routledge (Taylor and Francis) London 2021
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