Sumedha Gupta

RTG PhD student, member since 2024

Project "Intrasentential exceptives"

This project will investigate clausal constructions that express an exception to a predication from a previous utterance, as in Peter watered all the plants, but he didn't water the cacti. Exceptions of this type can be expressed using various forms, while the underlying semantics is rather uniform and seems to be dependent on the ordering of the propositions (cf. #Peter didn't water the cacti, but he watered all the plants). The project aims at (i) providing a (language specific, or cross-linguistic) description of the forms that participate in clausal exceptive constructions; (ii) the intrasentential semantic building blocks of the constructions; and (iii) account for the intersentential restrictions the constructions seem to have.

Background:

Master's in Linguistics: School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Master's Thesis: On Verbal Morphology of Koɖaː Investigating Syntax and Semantics of Tense-Aspect

Bachelor's in Bengali: St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata, India

Research interests:

Formal Semantics, Pragmatics