Dr. Ambalika Guha

• PhD (Linguistics), The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
• M.A. (Linguistics), University of Calcutta

• Generative Syntax
• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Second Language Acquisition

• ‘Focus and Nominal Ellipsis in the Bangla DP,’ published in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Working Papers in Linguistics.
• ‘Unique and Anaphoric Definiteness in the Bangla DP’ in the Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics, volume 3, no.2.

• Assistant Professor in the Department of Language and Literature (English), School of Liberal Arts and Cultural Studies, at Adamas University, Kolkata.
• Teaching Fellow in the Department of English at Vellore Institute of Technology University, Bhopal (from June, 2019 till January 2021).
• Guest Faculty in the School of Languages and Linguistics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (from January 2019 till June 2019).

• Number of research papers published in International refereed journals: 1
• Number of research papers published in International peer-reviewed Proceedings: 2
• Number of invited Book-Chapters: 2 (accepted for publication), Books : 1 (accepted for publication)

Selected Publication (s):

1. (Accepted) Co-authored book chapter on ‘Information and Communication Technology Tools in Language Learning Classroom: Developing Metacognitive Skills and its Social Ramifications’ with Dr. Arjab Roy (IIIT Guwahati) will be published with Springer Nature.
2. (Accepted) Book chapter on ‘A Comparative Study of the Lexicalization of the Bangla Polar Question Particle ‘ki’ and the Assamese polar Question Particle ‘ne’ will be published with Springer Nature.
3. (Accepted) Book on ‘Issues in the Syntax of the Bangla Determiner Phrase’ will be published in Brill EALT series.
4. ‘Ki: the interrogative disjunction morpheme in Bangla’, published in the conference proceedings of Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 11 in the site of Journal of South Asian Linguistics, 2022.
5. ‘Wh-movement in the Bangla DP’ published in the conference proceedings of Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 8 in the site of Journal of South Asian Linguistics, 2020.
6. ‘Focus and Nominal Ellipsis in the Bangla DP’ in the proceedings of GLOW in ASIA XI, volume 2, edited by Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, has been published with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Working Papers in Linguistics, 2017.
7. ‘ki and naki: Alternative Question Particles in Bangla,’ published in the Indian Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2022.
8. ‘Unique and Anaphoric Definiteness in the Bangla DP’ in the Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics, volume 3, no.2, 2019.
9. ‘Origin of the Bangla Modal para and its Semantics when it Interacts with the Progressive’ in The EFL Journal,        volume 8; No 1 (2017), edited by Rahul Balusu.

• Doctoral Thesis Advisor / Supervisor : 2 (Under progress)
• Post Graduate Thesis Advisor / Supervisor: 1 (Awarded)

• Joint Editor of the Adamas University Newsletter.
• Reviewer of the ELT Forum: Journal English Language Teaching.
• Reviewer of the Journal of English Language Teaching, English Language Teachers’ Association of India.
• Reviewer of the International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Review.