Research profile
My areas of research interest include Tibeto-Burman linguistics, morphosyntax, and language documentation, particularly of the South-Central languages spoken in Northeast India. I worked on the clause structure of Hmar for my PhD thesis at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.
I am presently leading the documentation of Ṭhiek, working as a Principal Project Scientist at the Speech Lab, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, for the project titled “A collaborative documentation of Saihriem and Ṭhiek: Two South-Central languages of the Cachar cluster” under the Major Documentation Project Grant from the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, Berlin-Branderburg Academy of Sciences. Ṭhiek is an endangered South-Central language of the Trans-Himalayan language family spoken by around 3000 people within the Dima-Hasao (previously known as North Cachar Hills) of Assam.
The project is a collaboration between IIT Delhi, the University of Bern, and Assam University, Silchar with the objective of developing a large audiovisual corpus of both Saihriem and Ṭhiek-capturing diverse aspects of everyday life and socio-cultural practices, creating a multilingual lexical database, compiling a sociolinguistic endangerment profile of the communities and assessing their language vitality.
