Dissertations

We here provide links to interesting dissertations published in the research area of South Asian linguistics. If you would like your dissertation to appear here as well, please contact us.

Miriam Butt: The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu (Stanford University, 1993)

Rashmi Prasad: Constraints on the Generation of Referring Expressions, with Special Reference to Hindi (University of Pennsylvania, 2003)

Ashwini Deo: Tense and Aspect in Indo-Aryan Languages: Variation and Diachrony (Stanford University, 2006)

Richa: Unaccusativity, Unergativity and the Causative Alternation in Hindi: A Minimalist Analysis (Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2008)

Sameer ud Dowla Khan: Intonational Phonology and Focus Prosody of Bengali (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008)

Tafseer Ahmed Khan: Spatial Expressions and Case in South Asian Languages (University of Konstanz, 2010)

Ghulam Raza: Subcategorization Acquisition and Classes of Predication in Urdu (University of Konstanz, 2011)

Balaram Prasain: A Computational Analysis of Nepali Morphology: A Model for Natural Language Processing (Tribhuvan University, 2011)

Annette Hautli-Janisz: Urdu/Hindi Motion Verbs and Their Implementation in a Lexical Resource (University of Konstanz, 2014)

Gayathri G: Malayalam Morphosyntax: Inflectional Features and their Acquisition (2019, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)