Anoop Mahajan
· ProfessorUniversity of California, Los Angeles · Linguistics
Active 1989–2020
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About
Anoop Mahajan is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA, holding a Ph.D. from MIT obtained in 1990. His research focuses on syntactic theory, linguistic typology, comparative Indo-European syntax, and Indic linguistics. His current research interests include ergativity and accusative case, the syntax of Hindi prenominal relative clauses, and word order and prepositional phrase positions. Mahajan has contributed extensively to the understanding of case assignment, clause structure, and word order phenomena in South Asian languages, particularly Hindi. His work includes publications on accusative and ergative case in Hindi, the structure of relative clauses, and the syntactic properties of Hindi agreement and clause structure, making significant contributions to the field of theoretical linguistics and South Asian language syntax.
Research topics
- Linguistics
- Computer science
- Artificial intelligence
- Mathematics
- History
Selected publications
The A/A-bar distinction and movement theory
DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 1990-01-01 · 428 citations
dissertationOpen access1st authorCorrespondingThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1990.
Universal Grammar and the Typology of Ergative Languages
Linguistik aktuell · 1997-02-13 · 150 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingWord Order and (Remnant) VP Movement
2003-01-01 · 126 citations
other1st authorCorrespondingClause Structure in South Asian Languages
Studies in natural language and linguistic theory · 2004-01-01 · 111 citations
bookSenior authorTowards a Minimalist Theory of Wh-Expletives, Wh-Copying, and Successive Cyclicity
Linguistik aktuell · 2000-09-15 · 109 citations
book-chapterSenior author
Frequent coauthors
- 1 shared
Youngok Ko
Seoul National University Hospital
- 1 shared
Veneeta Dayal
Yale University
- 1 shared
Irene Heim
IIT@MIT
- 1 shared
Hooi Ling Soh
- 1 shared
Rajesh Bhatt
- 1 shared
Luigi Rizzi
University of Bari Aldo Moro
- 1 shared
Masa Kuno
- 1 shared
Nanako Machida
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