Anju Saxena

Professor

Phone: +46 18 471 14 57
Fax: +46 18 471 10 94
E-mail: anju.saxena@lingfil.uu.se

Visiting Address
Room 9-2039
Department of Linguistics and Philology, House 9 (map)
English Park Campus. Centre for the Humanities (map)

Postal Address
Department of Linguistics and Philology
Box 635
SE-751 26 Uppsala
Sweden

I. Research

Ia. Projects

Principal Investigator, Multimedia and GIS supported language documentation of the Himalayas with the focus on ethno-biological terms. 2008-2010. Financed by the Swedish Research Council/SIDA
Principal Investigator, sub-project, Construction of Hindi-Swedish-English parallel corpus. 2007-2008. Financed by the Swedish Research Council and Faculty of Languages
Principal Investigator, Further development of ITG (IT-based collaborative learning in grammar) for distance education. Stiftelsen Swartz' minnesfond för vetenskaplig forskning eller undervisning. Uppsala Universitet. 2006
Principal Investigator, Digital documentation of Indian minority languages. Financed by the Swedish Research Council/SIDA. 2003 - 2005
Principal Investigator, Digital documentation of Indian minority languages. Planning grant, SASNET. 2002
Principal Investigator, IT-based collaborative learning in grammar. Financed by DISTUM/Rådet för högre utbildning. 2002 - 2005
Principal Investigator, Evaluation of multimedia rescources for teaching Hindi. Financed by the Faculty of Languages, Uppsala University. 2001
Principal Investigator, Development of IT-based grammar training material. Financed by Stiftelsen Swartz' minnesfond för vetenskaplig forskning eller undervisning, Uppsala University. 2001
Principal Investigator, Spoken language syntax. Financed by the Faculty of Languages (Särskilda fakultetsmedel), Uppsala University. 1999 - 2003
Principal Investigator. The translation of oral texts from indigenous languages within the research program on the Översättning och tolkning som språk- och kulturmöte [Translation and interpreting as a meeting of languages and cultures]. Financed by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. 1996 - 1999

Ib. Publications
A) Volumes/Monographs

Monograph: Unrelated languages in contact: The case of Harijan boli and Kinnauri. Trends in Linguistics: Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. In preparation.
co-editor, Mindre kända språk och samhällen (Lesser-known languages and societies). In preparation
co-editor, Lesser-known languages of South Asia. Status and policies, case studies and applications of Information Technology. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (2006).
Editor, Himalayan languages. Past and present. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2004 (this volume has been selected by the journal Language for full-length review)
Co-editor, special volume Orientalia Suecana. An international journal of Indological, Iranian, Semitic and Turkic studies. vol. LI-LII (2002-2003). Department of Afro-asiatic languages, Uppsala University. 2003
Editor, Humanistdagarna. Uppsala University. 2001
Editor, RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics 33. Uppsala University. 1998
Monograph: Internal and external factors in language change. Aspect in Tibeto-Kinnauri. RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics 32. Uppsala university. 1997
Co-editor, Proceedings of the Fourth annual meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. University of Oregon. 1989

B) Published articles (including "in press")

Sydasien. I: Karina Vamling och Jan-Olof Svantesson (eds), Världens språk. Lund: Studentlitteratur. To appear
Context shift and linguistic coding in Kinnauri narratives. Roland Bielmeier (ed.) Selected papers from the eighth Himalayan Languages Symposium. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. In press
Contrastive focus in Kinnauri narratives. Peter Austin and Andrew Simpson (eds) Linguistische Berichte Special. Special volume on Endangered Languages. In press
Introduction. Anju Saxena och Lars Borin (eds), Lesser-known languages of South Asia. status and policies, case studies and applications of Information Technology, 1-30. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2006
A Turkish-Swedish parallel corpus. Orhan Pamuk_ Beyaz Kale-Vita Borgen. (poster: Exhibition in the honor of Orhan Pamuk, Carolina Redeviva). December 2006 (co-author: Éva Csato Johanson, Bengt Dahlqvist, Beáta B. Megyesi, Anju Saxena, Anna Sågvall Hein)
It takes two to tango: Language and cultural (co)variance in digital documentation. Peter Austin (ed.) Language and cultural contact: Digital documentation, vol. 3, 181-195. London: The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project. 2006
Pronouns. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of languages and linguistics, 2nd edition, 131-133. Oxford: Elsevier. 2006
Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world - the study of Himalayan languages. Anju Saxena (ed.), Himalayan languages. Past and present, 3-32. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2004
On discourse functions of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives. Anju Saxena (ed.), Himalayan languages. Past and present, 213-238. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2004
Grammar, Incorporated. Peter Juel Henriksson (ed.), CALL for the Nordic languages, 125-146. Copenhagen Studies in Languages 30. Samfundslitteratur. 2004 (co-author)
Digital documentation of lesser-known languages in India: Its application in teaching Linguistics. ALLC/ACH 2004, Göteborg, 9-16 june 2004 (Poster) (co-author).
Some advantages of using corpora in teaching: IT-based collaborative learning in grammar. Nordisk Sprogteknologi. Årbog for Nordisk Språkteknologisk Forskningsprogram 2000-2004, 75-78. Kobenhavns Universitet: Museum Tusculanums forlag. 2003
Request and command in Kinnauri: The pragmatics of translating politeness. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area 25:2, 185-193. 2002
Using the Kinnauri corpus in research and teaching. Nordisk Sprogteknologi. Årbog for Nordisk Språkteknologisk Forskningsprogram 2000-2004, 75-78. Kobenhavns Universitet: Museum Tusculanums forlag. 2002
Locating and reusing sundry NLP flotsam in an e-learning application. LREC 2002. Workshop Proceedings. Customizing knowledge in NLP applications: Strategies, issues, and evaluation. Las Palmas. 2002 (co-author)
Speech reporting strategies in Kinnauri narratives. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area. 25:1,165-190. 2002
Evidentiality in Kinnauri. Lars Johanson and Bo Utas (eds), Evidentials in Turkic, Iranian and neighboring languages. Empirical approaches to language typology. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 2000
Diverging sources of new aspect morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri: External motivation or internal development. John Charles Smith and Delia Bentley (eds), Historical linguistics 1995. Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic languages, 361-375. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2000
Spoken language syntax. ASLA information 25.2, 45-48. 1999
The translation of oral texts from indigenous languages. ASLA information 25.2, 49-52. 1999
Spatial and temporal domains in Kinnauri. RUUL. Reports from Uppsala Linguistics 33, 72-88. 1998
Towards a reconstruction of the proto-West Himalayish agreement system. In: David Bradley (ed.), Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas, 73-94. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 1997
Aspect and evidential morphology: A diachronic study. Cahiers de Linguistique, Asie Orientale 26:2, 281-306. 1997
The translation of oral texts from indigenous languages II. Översattning och tolkning som språk- och kulturmöte. Redovisning av aktiviteter under 1996-97. Faculties of Languages, Uppsala University and Stockholm University, 49-51. 1996
Aspect and evidential morphology. RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics 28, 21-46. 1995
New aspect morphology: Where does it come from? Papers from the Fifteenth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Oslo University, 451-462. 1995. Also in: RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics 28, 1-20. 1995
Finite verb morphology in Kinnauri. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 24:1, 257-282. 1995
Unidirectional grammaticalization: Diachronic and cross-linguistic evidence. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF), 350-372. 1995
From lexical to grammatical: The story of say and thus. RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics 26, 88-111. 1994
Tense in Tibeto-Burman. B. Lakshmi Bai and Aditi Mukerjee (eds), Tense and aspect in Indian languages. Hyderabad: Centre of Advanced Studies in Linguistics, Osmania University and Booklines Corporations. 1993 (co-authored)
Defining Indo-Aryan language family as a type. R. N. Srivastava, Suresh Kumar, K.K. Goswami and R.V. Dhongde (eds), Language and text. Studies in honor of Ashok R. Kelkar. Delhi: Kalinga Publications, 81-98. 1992 (co-authored)
Ergative in Mi=la ras=pa'i rnam thar. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area 12:2, 35-39. 1990
Pathways of the developments of the ergative in Central Tibetan. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area 14:1, 109-116. 1991
Tone in Patani and Central Tibetan: Parallel developments? Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area 14:1, 129-135. 1991
Verb say in South Asian languages: A study in linguistic convergence. Aditi Mukerjee (ed.), Language change and language contact. Hyderabad: Osmania University. 1990 (co-authored)
Ergative or nominative-accusative: The Tibeto-Burman case. Robert Carlsson, Scott DeLancey, Spike Gildea, Doris Payne and Anju Saxena (eds), Proceedings of the fourth annual Pacific Linguistics Conference, 420-447. Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon. 1989
On syntactic convergence: The case of the verb say in Tibeto-Burman. Shelley Axmaker, Annie Jaisser and Helen Singmaster (eds), Proceedings of the fourteenth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. California: University of California, Berkeley, 375-388. 1988
Reflexivization in Hindi: A reconsideration. International Journal of Dravidian linguistics. 1987
Reflexives and reciprocals in Dravidian. Studies in the Linguistic sciences 17:1, 121-131. 1987 (co-authored)
Relevance of the study of syntactic typology: The South Asian case. Elena Bashir et al (eds), Select papers from SALA-7: South Asian languages analysis roundtable conference, 343-353.. Indiana Linguistics Club 1987 (co-authored)
Language universals: Inductive or deductive? Elena Bashir et al (eds), Select papers from SALA-7: South Asian languages analysis roundtable conference, 337-342. Indiana University Linguistics Club. 1987 (co-authored)
Intensifiers in Hindi. International Journal of Dravidian linguistics 14:1, 56-68. 1985 (co-authored)
Reflexivization in Telugu. Papers in Linguistics 17:4, 337-350. 1984 (co-authored)

C) Dissertations

A Study of reflexives and intensifiers in major Indo-Aryan languages. M.Phil thesis. Delhi University. 1984. (240 pages)
Finite verb morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Oregon. 1992. (284 pages)
Comparison between Mizo and Kuki regarding major transformations. M.A. thesis. University of Delhi. 1981 (60 pages)
Word order in Indian languages. M.Phil thesis. University of Delhi. 1984 (34 pages)

Ic. Conference organization

Co-organizer, The 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Uppsala, 30 Sept - 3 Oct 2008
Co-organizer, 14th Himalayan languages symposium. Gothenburg. 21-23 August 2008
Co-organizer, Linguistics of lesser-known languages in South Asia. 19th European Association of South Asian Studies. Leiden. 29 June 2006
Co-organizer, Workshop on case markers. Uppsala University. 25 Januari 2006
Co-organizer, Linguistic and cultural diversity. University of Iceland, Reykjavik. 14-15 March 2005
Co-organizer, Story and plot. Stockholm University. 3-5 September 2004
Organizer, Globalization, modern technology and South Asian minority languages. 18th European Association of South Asian Studies. Lund University. June 2004
Co-organizer, Doctoral students' symposium (Doktorandsymposiet). Faculty of languages, Uppsala University. April 2003
Co-organizer och initiator, First Swedish Linguistics conference (Första svenska lingvistikkonferensen. SLing). Uppsala University. March 2003
Co-organizer, Workshop on corpus-based teaching and research (Workshop om korpusbaserad undervisning och forskning). Uppsala University. September 2002
Co-organizer, 7th Himalayan languages symposium. Uppsala University. September 2001
Organizer, Humanistdagarna. Uppsala University. 2001
Co-organizer, Fourth annual meeting of the Pacific linguistic conference. University of Oregon. 1989
Member, Conference committee, Symposium on grammaticalization. University of Oregon. 1988

Id. Invited lectures during the last few years

Valence-changing mechanisms in Kinnauri. Tübingen University, Tyskland. Fall 2006
Optional ergativity in Kinnauri narratives and other Himalayan languages. Keynote speech. 12th Himalayan languages symposium/27th Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal, 26 - 28 november 2006. Kathmandu, Nepal. 2006
Ergative as a deictic marker. Tübingen University, Tyskland. 21 November 2005
Linguistics and socio-cultural information in digital documentation. Linguistic and cultural diversity. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 14-15 April 2005
It takes two to tango: Language and cultural (co)variation in digital documentation. Workshop on Language variation, language contact and digital documentation. SOAS, University of London. 13 January 2005.
En värld, ett språk? Globalisering och språklig mångfald. Globalisering, språk och kulturell mångfald. Göteborg University, 11 November 2004. Anordnades av Stofnun Vigdísar Finnbogadóttur i erlendum tungumálum. Nordiska språk- och litteraturdagar i Göteborg och Stockholm 11-13 November 2004
Kollaborativt lärande i grammatik. Department of Swedish. Göteborg University, during their Pedagogy day, 15 October 2004
Korpusar i grammatikundervisning. Workshop om korpusar i undervisning. Workshop anordnades i samarbete mellan Göteborg University and Iceland University. 5-6 February 2004
Why corpora in teaching linguistics. On IT-based collaborative learning. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. November 2002
ICT-based collaborative learning in grammar: Some advantages of using corpora in teaching. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institutet, Iceland University. 2002

Ie. Service to the linguistic community

Referee, National Science Foundation, USA. 2006
Referee, Cambridge University Press. 2006
Referee, journal Language Typology. 2006
Referee, Orientalia Suecana. An international journal of Indological, Iranian, Semitic and Turkic studies, 2006
Review Editor, Himalayan Linguistics. 2005-
Expert ("Sakkunnig"), Forskarassistent position in General Linguistics, Göteborg University. 2005
Referee, Austrian Research Council (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF)). 2005
Referee, South Asian Yearbook. Mouton de Gruyter. 2005
Member, Steering group, Endangered Language Documentation Programme, The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at SOAS, University of London. 2004-
Member, Editorial board, Himalayan Linguistics, 2004-
Member, Steering group, NorFA-Netværk om computerstøttet undervisning i nordiske sprog på universitetsniveau. 2003-2004
Member, Docenturnämnden. Uppsala University. 2002

If. Service to the community

Organizer, Humanistdagarna. Uppsala University. 2001
Editor, Samlingsvolym Humanistdagarna. (Proceedings of the lectures delivered at the Humanistdagarna). Uppsala University. 2001
"Många språk blir det" article in Sydasien 23:3. 2005
"Så snackas det" articel in Sydasien 23:3. 2005
"En värld, ett språk?" presentation made at a workshop for general public with the theme on "Globalisering, språk och kulturell mångfald". Göteborg University. 11 November 2004. Workshop was organized by the Stofnun Vigdísar Finnbogadóttur i erlendum tungumálum. Nordic languages and literature days in Gothenburg and Stockholm. 11-13 November 2004
I have regularly participated and informed high school students about Linguistics during Högskoledagen. Uppsala University

Ig. International research collaboration

NorFA-Netværk om computerstøttet undervisning i nordiske sprog på universitetsniveau. 2003-2004
Utilizing spoken language corpora. Norfa-financed graduate school for doctoral students from Nordic and Baltic countries. Göteborg University. August 2002
IT-support for Nordic-Baltic diversity. Norfa-financed graduate school for doktoral students from Nordic and Baltic countries. Uppsala University. June 2002
NORDTALK. Corpus-based research on spoken language. A NorFa Language Technology Network
Erasmus, research and teaching-related exchange program to York University concerning South Asian studies. 2001
Case alignment and argument structure. A study in comparative syntax in languages of the Caucasus. Research network financed by Svenska Institutet. 1999-2000

II. IT-based teaching

A web-based grammar support system: ITG, whose two main characteristics are (i) natural language corpora as the basis for generating all excercises and (ii) IT-based support system. . This system is being used at Uppsala University, Stockholm University and Göteborgs University.