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Books

2019    Srinagar Burushaski: A Descriptive and Comparative Account with Analyzed Texts. In Language and Linguistics series published by Brill (Leiden, The Netherlands).

Web-based archives and/or digital corpora[1]

Funded by NSF-DEL (2010, 2016)

  • 2015 Burushaski Language Documentation Project, a searchable web portal which hosts a variety of research and pedagogical materials on the Burushaski language. Available at URL http://www.burushaskilanguage.com (funded by NSF-DEL 2010)
  • 2014 Kashmir Oral History Project, a searchable web portal for an ongoing documentation project. The contents include a digital collection of personal narratives on Kashmir conflict. Available at http://www.kashmiroralhistory.org  (Initial funding by Charn Uswachoke Research Fund, 2013)
  • 2016 Koshur Bolbosh: Kashmiri Language Resources, an online web portal which provides language resources on Kashmiri language and literature. Available at https://koshurbolbosh.wordpress.com/

Articles published in Peer-Reviewed Journals

2015    “Advances in Burushaski Linguistics” In Journal of South Asian Linguistics. Mouton de

Gruyter. (review article). 2 (2): 251-61.

2014    “Poetic Traditions of Kashmir”. In Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Oxford University Press. (1-5)

2012    “The Metrical Structure of Kashmiri Vanivun”. In Ars Metrica. Budapest: ELTE. (05; 1-36)

2012    “Weight Sensitivity and Syllable Codas in Srinagar Koshur” paper co-authored with Megan J Crowhurst (second author). In Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, July 2012 issue, vol. 48.2 (p. 427-472)

2010    “Contact-Induced Language Change in a Trilingual Context: The Case of

            Burushaski in Srinagar”. In Diachronica - International Journal of Historical Linguistics.

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Volume 27.1, Pp. 32-72

2009    “Two Locations for Negation: Evidence from Kashmiri”, paper co-authored with Rajesh Bhatt (second author). In Linguistic Variation Yearbook. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Volume 9: Pp. 205-239.

Invited Publications (selected)

2006    “Indo-Aryan languages”. In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL), 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier Limited. Pp. 626-632.
 

2006    “Kashmiri”. In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition.

            Oxford: Elsevier Limited. Pp. 156-158

2006    “Dardic”. In Keith Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition.

            Oxford: Elsevier Limited. Pp. 354-356

2005    “Aspects of Kashmiri folk poetics: meter and rhythm”. In, English Studies in India, Vol

            XIII March 2005, Department of English, University of Kashmir. Pp. 111-126

Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)

2020    “Language, Religion and Identity Politics in Kashmir”. In Reeta Chowdhari Trumblay and
Mohita Bhatia (eds.) Religion and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir. Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group. Pp. 176-194.

Under Review

2020    “Illustrations of IPA: Mankiyali”. In Journal of International Phonetic Association. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (11 pages)

Work In Progress (in order of expected date of completion, beginning the one closest to completion)

Manuscripts

Burushaski Text Collections. A collection of linguistically transcribed and morphologically analyzed texts in four t dialects of Burushaski with English translations (for submission to Himalayan Linguistics).

Web-based archives and/or digital corpora

2020 Mankiyali Language Resource, a digital collection of Mankiyali oral literature to be available at the Digital Collections Library of UNT. URL https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections

Funded by NSF-DEL (2018)

Article for peer-reviewed journals

  • “Vowel Harmony in Kashmiri” for submission in Diachronica.
  • “Pro-Drop and Agreement in Kashmiri” (with Karla Villarreal).

Translation Studies