Chandni Dutta

Hi, I am a Ph.D. scholar in Linguistics at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. I work with Prof. Pritha Chandra, as a part of the SynDaC research group.

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My areas of interest include syntax and language variation. My thesis focuses on understanding the concept of the 'classifier' as a grammatical as well as a cognitive tool. It discusses the variation involved within and amongst the classifier languages, with a major focus on Eastern-Indo-Aryan languages. The other related grammatical notions like 'number' and 'numeral' are also considered in my current work.