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Ashwini Deo

Stanford University
Department of Linguistics

Ashwini Deo is originally from India where she studied social work, linguistics, and traditional Sanskrit grammar.  She is currently a graduate student in linguistics at Stanford with interests in historical linguistics, morphology, syntax-semantics interface, and the semantics of tense and aspect categories.  Her dissertation brings together all these interests.

Project Summary

Deo’s dissertation investigates linguistic evidence from synchronic variation in standard and non-standard Indo-Aryan languages to trace a diachronic path for the evolution of the tense-aspect system in the Indo-Aryan language family.