Department of Linguistics

The Departmentment of Linguistics came into being in 1995 with the aim of developing a better understanding of language study and linguistics. With the diverse linguistics scenario in North- East India providing its backdrop, the thrust of the department's endeavour has been on analyzing the languages of North-East India with special reference to the languages of South Assam. The department is also giving as a lot of minoroty languages are spoken in this part ofthe country which is considered to be endangered so that we can do something meaning to preserve these. All the Noth Easter Languages show dialectal variations which need to be studied structurally as well as sociolinguistically. Such studies would help the standardization of languages and pave ways for their use in education and other fields of Socio-culture life of North East India. Keeping this in view, the department has developed its course curriculum in such a way so as to enable students at the Post Graduate level to acquire capabilities to take up independent researches in future on various languages and their recent developments.

Courses offered:

i) M.A(by course work)     Duration:Four Semesters     Intake Capacity:31

ii)M.Phil(by course work and dissertation)    Duration:Three Semesters

iii)Ph.D(by course and research work)

Faculty:

Name	Designation	Area of Specialization
Ajit Kumar Baishya, Ph.D	Professor & HOD	Sociolinguistics
S. Ganesh Baskaran, Ph.D	Associate Professor	Ethnolinguistics, Descriptive linguistics,Lexicography and Translation
Kh. Dhiren Singha,M.Phil, Ph.D	Reader	Phonology,Morpho-Syntax,Language Topology and Tibeto-Burman Linguistics
Pauthang Haokip, Ph.D	Assistant Professor	Phonetics/Phonology,Tibeto-Burman and Descriptive Linguistics
D Mary Kim Haokip, M.Phil	Assistant Professor	Language Teaching, Descriptive Linguistics and Field Linguistics
Paramita Purkait, Ph.D	Assistant Professor	Comparative Linguistics, Morphology,Semantics, Lexicography and Lexicology

Head of the Department: Prof. Ajit Kumar Baishya               Contact No: (03842)270313(O)