Experience

University of Hyderabad

• Senior Research Fellow



Self-employed

• Delhi Area, India

• Retired Professor in Linguistics from Delhi University, Delhi, India

  • Sep 2011 - Present

  I was Radhakrishnan Chair Professor in Humanities at the University of Hyderabad in 2010-2011 for one academic year. I taught at the Department of Linguistics, Delhi University, Delhi, India from 1973-2005. I taught at the University of Chicago as a Fulbright Fellow in the Spring semester of 1987. I also taught at the University of Hamburg for a semester in 2004 as a Visiting Professor. I was a Visiting Professor of Linguistics at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo for two… Show more I was Radhakrishnan Chair Professor in Humanities at the University of Hyderabad in 2010-2011 for one academic year. I taught at the Department of Linguistics, Delhi University, Delhi, India from 1973-2005. I taught at the University of Chicago as a Fulbright Fellow in the Spring semester of 1987. I also taught at the University of Hamburg for a semester in 2004 as a Visiting Professor. I was a Visiting Professor of Linguistics at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo for two years in 2000-2001, and 2005-2006. My areas of specialization are syntax, syntactic Typology, Language Contact and Convergence and Syntactic Change. I focus on the syntax of South Asian languages with special reference to Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, Austro-Asiatic (Mon-Khmer and Munda) languages. My book of South Asian Languages: A Syntactic Typology (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: New York: New Delhi) appeared in 2012. An appendix of 300 pages containing some chapters and other relevant material is freely available as a free download from: www.Cambridge.org/Subbarao. Several papers of mine are available at www.Academia.edu and at www.Researchgate.edu Show less I was Radhakrishnan Chair Professor in Humanities at the University of Hyderabad in 2010-2011 for one academic year. I taught at the Department of Linguistics, Delhi University, Delhi, India from 1973-2005. I taught at the University of Chicago as a Fulbright Fellow in the Spring semester of 1987. I also taught at the University of Hamburg for a semester in 2004 as a Visiting Professor. I was a Visiting Professor of Linguistics at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo for two… Show more I was Radhakrishnan Chair Professor in Humanities at the University of Hyderabad in 2010-2011 for one academic year. I taught at the Department of Linguistics, Delhi University, Delhi, India from 1973-2005. I taught at the University of Chicago as a Fulbright Fellow in the Spring semester of 1987. I also taught at the University of Hamburg for a semester in 2004 as a Visiting Professor. I was a Visiting Professor of Linguistics at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo for two years in 2000-2001, and 2005-2006. My areas of specialization are syntax, syntactic Typology, Language Contact and Convergence and Syntactic Change. I focus on the syntax of South Asian languages with special reference to Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, Austro-Asiatic (Mon-Khmer and Munda) languages. My book of South Asian Languages: A Syntactic Typology (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: New York: New Delhi) appeared in 2012. An appendix of 300 pages containing some chapters and other relevant material is freely available as a free download from: www.Cambridge.org/Subbarao. Several papers of mine are available at www.Academia.edu and at www.Researchgate.edu Show less



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• researcher

  • Jul 1973 - Present



Retired University Professor

• Delhi, India

• Professor of Linguistics

  • Nov 1973 - Aug 2005

  I am a researcher in linguistics working on about 70 languages from the South Asian subcontinent. Recently, my book South Asian Languages: A Syntactic Typology has been published from Cambridge University Press (New York) and CUP (India). It deals with a comparison of the languages of the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman and Austro-Asiatic (Mon-Khmer and the Munda languages) of the subcontinent at the syntactic (grammatical) level) I am a researcher in linguistics working on about 70 languages from the South Asian subcontinent. Recently, my book South Asian Languages: A Syntactic Typology has been published from Cambridge University Press (New York) and CUP (India). It deals with a comparison of the languages of the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman and Austro-Asiatic (Mon-Khmer and the Munda languages) of the subcontinent at the syntactic (grammatical) level)