Books By Rajesh Kumar - Author

Rajesh Kumar teaches linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He graduated with Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in the USA and IIT Kanpur, IIT Patna, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai in India. His book Syntax of Negation and Licensing of Negative Polarity Items was published by Routledge in their series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. He has published papers in several journals and presented his work at professional meetings such as Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America and Chicago Linguistics Society among others. The broad goal of his research is to uncover regularities underlying both the form (what language is) and sociolinguistic functions (what language does) of natural languages. He has co-edited four books Linguistic Ecology of Mizoram, LinguisticFoundation of Identity, Lan