Education Qualification
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
Research Interests
Experience
Professor Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 2012 - Present
Expertise
Language and Linguistics
Bio:
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. 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.
Honors and Awards
Fellowship University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, U.S.A. 2003
The excellent teaching assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, U.S.A. 2002
Henry Kahane award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant Department of Linguistics, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, U.S.A. 2001
Lectureship The University Grants Commission of India, New Delhi, India. 1997