Gargi Roy

Overview:

Gargi Roy is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities & Liberal Arts, IIM Bodh Gaya, Bihar. She teaches Business Communication at the department. She obtained her Ph.D. in Linguistics from IIT Madras.

Her research is central to the areas of Syntax and Syntactic Typology. She primarily studies syntactic consequences of language contact and investigates symptoms of language shift, maintenance, and language loss observed especially in minority languages due to the result of prolonged contact with dominant languages spoken in proximity. Overall, her work provides a vista of understanding of the underlying mental design of language universals and parametric variations to the social tendencies of speech communities towards their indigenous languages in terms of retention of their language or a likely shift to another prospective language spoken in the surrounding.

With substantial inputs from Linguistics, her strategy of teaching Business Communication provides a new dimension to the lectures. The students are enabled to spontaneously identify the linguistic cues in the flow of communication, understand the linguistic nuances in the language of reasoning, argument, satire, humour, etc. Teaching Business Communication with a window to Linguistics is aimed at generating linguistic tolerance among the students of a multilingual classroom and in order that they frankly assimilate with peers belonging to varied linguistic communities and cultural backgrounds.

Area of Expertise:

• Syntax and Syntactic Typology
• Sociolinguistics
• Minority Languages and Language Contact, Shift, Maintenance and Language Attrition

Academic Background:

• Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras
• Ph.D. Thesis Title: Clause Structures in Kokborok: A Case of Language Contact and Convergence
• M.A. in Applied Linguistics, University of Hyderabad
• M.A. in English, Tripura University
• B.A. in English (Honours), Tripura University

Teaching Experience:

• Assistant Professor (20^th November 2023-Present) at the Department of Humanities & Liberal Arts, IIM Bodh Gaya, Gaya, Bihar, India.
• Assistant Professor (6^th October 2022-18^th November, 2023) at the Department of Humanities, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• Assistant Professor (1^st September, 2021 – 30^th September, 2022) at the Department of English, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Journal Publications:

• Roy Gargi, Karumuri V. Subbarao, Rajesh Kumar & Martin Everaert. (2021). Kokborok and the Simple-Complex Reflexive Distinction. Studies in Language. Vol. 45, No. 2. 384-407. John Benjamin’s Publishing Company. DOI: 1075/sl.19091.roy (SSCI & SCOPUS)
• Roy Gargi, Rajesh Kumar & Karumuri V. Subbarao. (2021). Control Structures in Kokborok--A Case of Syntactic Convergence. Lingua Posnaniensis. Vol. 63, No. 1. 21-52. De Gruyter Open Ltd. DOI: 2478/linpo-2021-0002 (SCOPUS)
• Roy Gargi, Rajesh Kumar & Karumuri V. Subbarao (2020). Relative Clauses in Kokborok--A Case of Syntactic Convergence. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics. Vol 49, No. 2. 116-145.
• Roy Gargi and Rajesh Kumar. (2019). Embedded Clauses in Two Varieties of Bangla. Indian Linguistics. Vol. 80, No. 3-4, 37-67.

Book Chapters:

• Roy Gargi, Rajesh Kumar & Karumuri V. Subbarao (2021). Reciprocals in Kokborok: A Case of Syntactic Convergence. In Ghanyasham Sharma & John Lowe (Eds.) Trends in South Asian Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 311-338. DOI: 1515/9783110753066 (SCOPUS)
• Roy Gargi and Karumuri V. Subbarao (2022). Language Contact and Convergence. In Jelle J.P. Wouters & Tanka B. Subba (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Northeast India. New York, NY: Routledge, 299-306. DOI: 4324/9781003285540-50

Conference Presentations:

• Roy Gargi. (2023). Language Shift or Maintenance? A Case Study Based on the Minority Language, Kokborok spoken in Tripura. Presented in the 2023 World Anthropology Congress Round Table titled, ‘Northeast India Issues and Policy Research’ held during August 9-14 and Organized by the United Indian Anthropology Forum (UIAF) and Hosted by the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
• Roy Gargi, Anindita Sahoo & Foong Ha Yap. (2023). What does -jak- do in Kokborok Voice Constructions? Presented in the 2-Day Seminar on ‘All About ‘Voice’ (AAV): A Crosslinguistic Perspective’ held during 14^th-15^th April and organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
• Banerjee Sayantani and Gargi Roy. (2021). Subject Marking Intricacies in Some Languages of North-East India. Presented in the 42nd Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Nepal held on November 26-27 at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
• Roy Gargi (2020). Reduplication as a Syntactic Strategy: A Case of Kokborok Anaphora. Presented in International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL 53) held on October 1-4, 2020 at the University of North Texas, U.S.A.
• Roy Gargi. (2020). The Grammar of Reciprocity in Kokborok—A Case of Syntactic Convergence or Language Dominance? Presented in International Web Conference on Advance Research in Science, Humanities and Social Science (IWCARSHSS), M.B.B University, Agartala, Tripura, India.
• Roy Gargi and Rajesh Kumar. (2020). Reduplication as a Syntactic Strategy in Kokborok: A Descriptive Study. Presented in 2nd International Conference on Indigenous Languages (ICOIL 2), IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
• Roy Gargi and Rajesh Kumar. (2019). Control Structures in Kokborok. Presented in 35th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable held in INALCO, Paris, France.
• Roy Gargi, Rajesh Kumar & Karumuri V. Subbarao (2018). Relative Clauses in Kokborok. Presented in 10th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS10) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.
• Roy Gargi, Rajesh Kumar & Karumuri V. Subbarao. (2018). Knowledge of Structure in Second Language Teaching. Presented in International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching held in National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Roy Gargi, Rajesh Kumar & Karumuri V. Subbarao. (2018). Exceptional Case-Marking in Kokborok. Presented in Cambridge Comparative Syntax (CamCos 7) at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.
• Roy Gargi, Rajesh Kumar, Karumuri V. Subbarao & Martin Everaert. (2018). Kokborok Reflexives. Presented in 53rd Linguistics Colloquium—Linguistic Variation and Diversity held in University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
• Roy Gargi and Rajesh Kumar. (2017). Syntactic Variations in two Varieties in Bangla. Presented in 23rd International Conference of Himalayan Languages Symposium (HLS) held in Tezpur University, Assam, India.
• Roy Gargi and Rajesh Kumar. (2017). A Contrastive Study of Linguistic Features of Two Varieties of Bangla. Presented in Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI 11) held in Jadavpur University, India.

Memberships

• Life Member of Dravidian Linguistic Association
• Life Member of Linguistics Society of India