Qualifications
MA in Linguistics 2007, MPhil in Linguistics 2011, PhD in Linguistics 2018
Current Courses Taught
At AUUP NOIDA: Phonological Analysis, Morpho-Syntactic Processes, History of English Language, Communication Skills II, Elementary Phonetics, Discourse Analysis
Research Interests
General: South-Asian Languages, Semantics, Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Experimental Semantics-Syntax
Accepted publication. Typology of Conditionals in Bangla. Linguistic Variation; Guha, I, S. Moitra & P. Marty
Teaching Interests
She is a linguist, who has been invested in studying the languages spoken in India. She earned her PhD in Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 2018. Recently in October 2024, she completed carrying out a DST CSRI Postdoctoral grant, which was hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
Professional Activities
She primarily works on Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. In her research, she has been focused on exploring quantifier scope related phenomena, both theoretically and experimentally. Her interest in scope phenomena, especially how they are manifested in the Indic languages, started while working on the pragmatics of the additive particle in Bangla. She studied the semantics of the adnominal and the adverbial distributive numerals in Bangla in her thesis. The chief theoretical proposals of the work can be found in the Sinn und Bedeutung proceedings paper. She has collaboratively explored the interaction between quantifier scope, word order and the scope preference of determiners, using behavioural psycholinguistic methods, under her DST grant. Additionally, she is interested in theoretically couched typological studies on Indian languages. Her work on the typology of conditionals would be an example of that. Most of her work can be accessed on her webpage.
Other Achievements
Personal webpage: https://ishaniguha.wordpress.com/
Contact Information
Amity Institute of English Studies And Research (AIESR)
