Shrayana Haldar
About Me
I’m a third-year Linguistics grad student at MIT. I was born in Kolkata, India, and lived in Rahara, a place in the outskirts of Kolkata, for 18 years. I hold a B.A. in Linguistics from UMass Amherst, where I went from 2017 to 2021. I also did a secondary major in French and Francophone Studies there. My first language is Bengali. I also have an L-2 acquisition in Hindi and near-native proficiency in English. During my teenage years, I studied Italian, German, and Spanish, Italian now being the language I’ve retained the most amount of knowledge of.
I’m broadly interested in theoretical syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and semantics. My senior thesis at UMass Amherst was on Bengali Verb-Stranding VP Ellipsis and it was supervised by Kyle Johnson and Rajesh Bhatt. Since my arrival at MIT, I’ve been working on something that has intrigued me since my UMass days, which is multidominance, and more specifically, a way of implementing DP movement involving multidominance, which was developed by Kyle Johnson. I recently defended my first Generals Paper, which involves applying this multidominant way of envisaging DP movement to relative clauses and solving a number of puzzles surrounding Antecedent Contained Deletion (ACD) and relative clause extraposition with this implementation. This project has been largely supervised by Danny Fox and inspired by his work.
When I’m not doing linguistics, I often sing Rabindrasangeet (a genre of Bengali songs created by Rabindranath Tagore) on my YouTube channel. When I’m sad, I watch Satyajit Ray’s movies and listen to his songs and background scores. When I can afford to spend time reading outside linguistics, I read Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler.
I pronounce my name as [sɾɒe̯ona ɦal̪d̪aɾ]. My pronouns are she/her. I have many nicknames given to me by many people. My favorite among them is Shonku (pronounced [ʃoŋku]). (It’s the last name of Trilokeshwar Shonku, a (male) scientist character created by Satyajit Ray, who goes on strange adventures across the globe.) All are welcome to use this nickname.
Email me at: [email protected]
I’m a third-year Linguistics grad student at MIT. I was born in Kolkata, India, and lived in Rahara, a place in the outskirts of Kolkata, for 18 years. I hold a B.A. in Linguistics from UMass Amherst, where I went from 2017 to 2021. I also did a secondary major in French and Francophone Studies there. My first language is Bengali. I also have an L-2 acquisition in Hindi and near-native proficiency in English. During my teenage years, I studied Italian, German, and Spanish, Italian now being the language I’ve retained the most amount of knowledge of.
I’m broadly interested in theoretical syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and semantics. My senior thesis at UMass Amherst was on Bengali Verb-Stranding VP Ellipsis and it was supervised by Kyle Johnson and Rajesh Bhatt. Since my arrival at MIT, I’ve been working on something that has intrigued me since my UMass days, which is multidominance, and more specifically, a way of implementing DP movement involving multidominance, which was developed by Kyle Johnson. I recently defended my first Generals Paper, which involves applying this multidominant way of envisaging DP movement to relative clauses and solving a number of puzzles surrounding Antecedent Contained Deletion (ACD) and relative clause extraposition with this implementation. This project has been largely supervised by Danny Fox and inspired by his work.
When I’m not doing linguistics, I often sing Rabindrasangeet (a genre of Bengali songs created by Rabindranath Tagore) on my YouTube channel. When I’m sad, I watch Satyajit Ray’s movies and listen to his songs and background scores. When I can afford to spend time reading outside linguistics, I read Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler.
I pronounce my name as [sɾɒe̯ona ɦal̪d̪aɾ]. My pronouns are she/her. I have many nicknames given to me by many people. My favorite among them is Shonku (pronounced [ʃoŋku]). (It’s the last name of Trilokeshwar Shonku, a (male) scientist character created by Satyajit Ray, who goes on strange adventures across the globe.) All are welcome to use this nickname.
Email me at: [email protected]