Veneeta Dayal

Veneeta Dayal (born December 5, 1956) is an American linguist. She is currently a Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University, where she served as Department chair from 2005-2008 and Acting Dean of Humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences from 2008-2009.[1]

Dayal’s research focuses on the interface of semantics and syntax, especially the areas of question forms and relative clauses, bare nominals and genericity, and free choice items such as "any." She has examined these forms in data from Hindi as well as English.

Early life and education

Dayal was born in India. She received a BA, MA, and M. Phil in English Literature from Delhi University. She earned a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University in 1991, under the supervision of Gennaro Chierchia.

Awards and distinctions

Since 2012 she has been an Associate Editor for the journal Linguistics and Philosophy.[2]

She was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Award for 2004- 2005: “South Asian Languages and Semantic Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Study” for research on classifiers in South Asian languages.[3]

In 2002-2003, she was awarded a National Science Foundation grant, “Quantification without Quantifiers,” to study the meaning conveyed by nouns without articles in English, Korean, Hebrew, and Hindi.[4]

Publications

References

  1. "Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study". Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  2. Forbes, Graeme (2012). "Acknowledgement to reviewers (2009–2012)". Linguistics and Philosophy.
  3. "2004-2005 U.S. Fulbright Scholar Grantees" (PDF). Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  4. Steele, Susan (April 4, 2002). "NSF Committee of Visitors Report".

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