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Shobhana Chelliah
Alma materUniversity of Texas (PhD)
University of Delhi (AM)
St. Stephen's College (AB)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics, Tibeto-Burman linguistics, Language documentation
InstitutionsUniversity of North Texas
Doctoral advisorAnthony C. Woodbury

Shobhana Chelliah is a linguist who specializes in Tibeto-Burman languages and language documentation,[2] as well as the structure of international English.[3] She earned her doctorate in linguistics in 1992 at the University of Texas at Austin, where her doctoral adviser was Anthony C. Woodbury. Her dissertation focused on the description of Meitei grammar.[4] She has also worked on the digitization of Old Meitei manuscripts from the 16th-18th centuries,[5][6] as well as the documentation of the Lamkang language.[7] Her other publications are on the typology of case marking, as well as the Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork. Chelliah was the Program Director for the Documenting Endangered Languages program at the National Science Foundation from 2012-2014.[8][9] She is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of North Texas.[10]

Selected publications

  • Chelliah, Shobhana L. (1997). A grammar of Meithei. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 0-19-564331-3.
  • Chelliah, Shobhana L. (2001). Constructs of Indian English in language 'guidebooks'. World Englishes, 20:161-177.* Chelliah, Shobhana L. (2002). Early Meithei manuscripts. In C. I. Beckwith (Ed.), Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies: Proceedings of the ninth seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 (pp. 59–71). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
  • Chelliah, Shobhana L. (2002). A glossary of 39 basic words in archaic and modern Meithei. In C. I. Beckwith (Ed.), Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies: Proceedings of the ninth seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 (pp. 189–190). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
  • Chelliah, Shobhana L. (2004). "Polysemy through metonymy: The case of Meithei pi 'grandmother'". Studies in Language. 28 (2): 363–386. doi:10.1075/sl.28.2.04che.* Chelliah, Shobhana L. & Willem de Reuse. (2010). Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 176–177. ISBN 978-9048190256

References

  1. ^ "Faculty Information System". www.unt.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
  2. ^ Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi (1997-01-01). A Grammar of Meithei. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110143218.
  3. ^ Chelliah, S.L. (2001) Constructs of Indian English in language 'guidebooks'. World Englishes, 20:161-177.
  4. ^ Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi (1997-01-01). A Grammar of Meithei. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110143218.
  5. ^ Chelliah, S., & Ray, S. (2002). Early Meithei manuscripts. In Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages: Proceedings of a Symposium held in Leiden, June (Vol. 26, No. 2000, pp. 59-71).
  6. ^ Chelliah, Shobhana L. (2002). A glossary of 39 basic words in archaic and modern Meithei. In C. I. Beckwith (Ed.), Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies: Proceedings of the ninth seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 (pp. 189–190). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
  7. ^ "UNT Research Magazine Vol. 18, No. 1 - Spring 2009 - Preserving Endangered Languages". www.unt.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  8. ^ "Documenting Endangered Languages". National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  9. ^ "What We Do | Linguistics Program". linguistics.unt.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  10. ^ "Chelliah | Home". www.cas.unt.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
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