Anju
Saxena
Professor of Linguistics
Phone: +46 18 471
14 57
Fax: +46 18 471 10 94
E-mail: anju.saxena@lingfil.uu.se
Areas of specialization:
Language documentation, South Asian languages, Functional linguistics, language contact.
Research profile.
I. Academic services
Editorial Board
1. Co-Series-editor, Brill’s Studies in South and Southwest Asian languages. Brill
2. Consulting editor, Studies in Language. John Benjamins
3. Co-editor, Orientalia Suecana. Uppsala University
4. Review Editor, Himalayan Linguistics
5. Member, Editorial Board, Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies. The University of Sistan and Baluchistan, Iran
6. Member, Advisory Editorial Committee, Himalayan Studies Journal. Himachal Pradesh University, India
International Advisory Boards
I am currently member of the following international advisory boards:
1. Secretary, Nordic Association of Linguists
2. International Advisory Committee, Focus area ”Globalization”, NTNU. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
3. International Advisory Committee, World Language Centre. The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Iceland.
4. European Science Foundation (ESF) Pool of Reviewers. European Science Foundation
5. International Advisory Committee, LinSun – a comprehensive survey of Nepal. Tribhuvan University, Nepal
6. Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at SOAS, University of London
Reviewer
1. Reviewer of submissions to Studies in Language, Linguistic Typology, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Language Science, Orientalia Suecana, South Asian Yearbook, Cambridge University Press and other journals/publishers
2. Reviewer of project proposals submitted to national and international funding agencies, such as Riksbankens jubleumsfond (Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation), Austrian Research Council, ELDP, European Science Foundation , National Science Foundation and Swiss National Science Foundation
3. Expert (”Sakkunnig”) for appointment and promotion at University of Gothenburg, Lund University, Stockholm University
4. External examinor and member of the Examination Board for Ph.D. defence in Linguistics at University of Gothenburg, Lund University, Stockholm University and Uppsala University in Sweden, CIEFL (India) and SOAS, University of London
II. Research
Externally funded research projects
1. Digital areal linguistics: a lexical view of the Himalayan microarea. Financed by the Swedish Research Council. 2010-2012
2. Principal Investigator, Multimedia and GIS supported language documentation of the Himalayas with the focus on ethno-biological terms. Swedish Research Council/SIDA. 2008 – 2010
3. Principal Investigator, sub-project: Construction of Hindi-Swedish-English parallel corpus. Financed by the Swedish Research Council and Faculty of languages, Uppsala University. 2007 – 2009
4. Principal Investigator, Further development of ITG (IT-based collaborative learning in grammar) for distance education. Stiftelsen Swartz’ minnesfond för vetenskaplig forskning eller undervisning. Uppsala University. 2006
5. Principal Investigator, Digital documentation of Indian minority languages. Swedish Research Council/SIDA. 2003 – 2005
6. Principal Investigator, Digital documentation of Indian minority languages. Planning grant, SASNET. 2002
7. Principal Investigator, IT-based collaborative learning in grammar. DISTUM/Rådet för högre utbildning. 2002 – 2005
8. Principal Investigator, Evaluation of multimedia rescources for teaching Hindi. Faculty of Languages, Uppsala University. 2001
9. Principal Investigator, Development of IT-based grammar training material. Stiftelsen Swartz’ minnesfond för vetenskaplig forskning eller undervisning, Uppsala University. 2001
10. Principal Investigator, Spoken language syntax. Faculty of Languages, Uppsala University. 1999 – 2003
11. Principal Investigator. The translation of oral texts from indigenous languages within the research program on the Översättning och tolkning som språk- och kulturmöte [Translation and interpreting as a meeting of languages and cultures]. Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. 1996 – 1999.
Conference organization
1. Organizer, Seminar series on Language Documentation (Seminarieserien om språkdokumentation). Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University. Fall 2009
2. Co-organizer, Seminar series on language diversity (Språkmångfaldsseminarieserien). Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University. Fall 2008
3. Co-organizer, Workshop on language documentation and language description of lesser-known languages. 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Uppsala University. 30 September –1 October 2008
4. Co-organizer, 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Uppsala University. 2-5 October 2008
5. Member, Scientific committee, 1st International conference on languages and dialects in Iran. University of Sistan and Baluchistan, Zahedan, Iran. 28-31 October 2008
6. Co-organizer, 14th Himalayan Languages Symposium. University of Gothenburg, 21–23 August 2008
7. Co-initiator and co-organizer, Gothenburg Typological seminar serie. 2007–
8. Co-organizer, Linguistics of lesser-known languages in South Asia. 19th European Association of South Asian Studies. Leiden. 29 June 2006
9. Co-organizer, Workshop on case markers. Uppsala University. 25 January 2006
10. Co-organizer, Linguistic and cultural diversity. University of Iceland, Reykjavik. 14–15 March 2005
11. Co-organizer, Story and plot. Stockholm University. 3–5 September 2004
12. Organizer, Globalization, modern technology and South Asian minority languages. 18th European Association of South Asian Studies. Lund University. June 2004
13. Co-organizer, Doctoral students’ symposium (Doktorandsymposiet). Faculty of languages, Uppsala University. April 2003
14. Initiator & Co-organizer, SLing. First Swedish Linguistics conference (Första svenska lingvistikkonferensen. SLing). Uppsala University. March 2003
15. Co-organizer, Workshop on corpus-based teaching and research (Workshop om korpusbaserad undervisning och forskning). Uppsala University. September 2002
16. Co-organizer, 7th Himalayan languages symposium. Uppsala University. September 2001
17. Organizer, Humanistdagarna. Uppsala University. 2001
18. Co-organizer, Fourth annual meeting of the Pacific linguistic conference. University of Oregon. 1989
19. Member, Conference committee, Symposium on grammaticalization. University of Oregon. 1988
Publications
Books
1. Co-editor, Mindre kända språk och samhällen (Lesser-known languages and societies). In preparation
2. Co-editor, Proceedings of the 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. 1-3 October 2008. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Linguistica Upsaliensia 8
3. Co-editor, Lesser-known languages of South Asia. Status and policies, case studies and applications of Information Technology. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2006
4. Editor, Himalayan languages. Past and present. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2004
5. Co-editor, special volume Orientalia Suecana. An international journal of Indological, Iranian, Semitic and Turkic studies. vol. LI-LII (2002-2003). Department of Afro-asiatic languages, Uppsala University. 2003
6. Editor, Språkets gränser och gränslöshet. Då tankar, tal och traditioner möts. Humanistdagarna vid Uppsala universitet, 2001
7. Editor, RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics 33. Uppsala University. 1998
8. Internal and external factors in language change. Aspect in Tibeto-Kinnauri. RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics 32. Uppsala university. 1997
9. Co-editor, Proceedings of the Fourth annual meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. University of Oregon. 1989
Selected articles
1. Sydasien. Karina Vamling och Jan-Olof Svantesson (eds), Världens språk. Lund: Studentlitteratur. To appear
2. Using parallel corpora in teaching & research: The Swedish-Hindi & Swedish-Turkish parallel corpora. Saxena, Anju and Åke Viberg (eds). Multilingualism. Proceedings of the 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. 1-3 October 2008. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Linguistica Upsaliensia 8. 2009
3. South Asian languages. Peter K. Austin (ed.), 1000 Languages. The worldwide history of living and lost tongues. University of California Press. (Review)
4. Building the Uppsala Hindu corpus. SLTC: Swedish Language Technology Conference. 20-21 November 2008
5. Corpora in grammar learning – Evaluation of ITG. In: Nivre, Joakim ; Dahllöf, Mats ; Megyesi, Beáta (2008). Resourceful Language Technology: Festschrift in Honor of Anna Sågvall Hein.
6. On ñum and Om in Kinnauri. Birgitte Huber, Marianne Volkart och Paul Widmer (eds) Chomolangma, Demawend und Kasbek. Beiträge zur Zentralasienforschung. Bonn. 2008
7. Context shift and linguistic coding in Kinnauri narratives. Roland Bielmeier (ed.) Selected papers from the eighth Himalayan Languages Symposium. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 2007
8. Contrastive focus in Kinnauri narratives. Peter Austin and Andrew Simpson (eds) Linguistische Berichte Special. Special volume on Endangered Languages. 2007
9. Introduction. Anju Saxena och Lars Borin (eds), Lesser-known languages of South Asia. status and policies, case studies and applications of Information Technology, 1-30. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2006
10. A Turkish-Swedish parallel corpus. Orhan Pamuk_ Beyaz Kale-Vita Borgen. (poster: Exhibition in the honor of Orhan Pamuk, Carolina Redeviva). December 2006 (co-author: Éva Csato Johanson, Bengt Dahlqvist, Beáta B. Megyesi, Anju Saxena, Anna Sågvall Hein)
11. It takes two to tango: Language and cultural (co)variance in digital documentation. Peter Austin (ed.) Language and cultural contact: Digital documentation, vol. 3, 181-195. London: The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project. 2006
12. Pronouns. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of languages and linguistics, 2nd edition, 131–133. Oxford: Elsevier. 2006
13. Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world – the study of Himalayan languages. Anju Saxena (ed.), Himalayan languages. Past and present, 3–32. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2004
14. On discourse functions of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives. Anju Saxena (ed.), Himalayan languages. Past and present, 213–238. Trends in Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2004
15. Grammar, Incorporated. Peter Juel Henriksson (ed.), CALL for the Nordic languages, 125–146. Copenhagen Studies in Languages 30. Samfundslitteratur. 2004 (co-author)
16. Digital documentation of lesser-known languages in India: Its application in teaching Linguistics. ALLC/ACH 2004, Gothenburg, 9–16 june 2004 (Poster) (co-author).
17. Some advantages of using corpora in teaching: IT-based collaborative learning in grammar. Nordisk Sprogteknologi. Årbog for Nordisk Språkteknologisk Forskningsprogram 2000–2004, 75–78. Kobenhavns Universitet: Museum Tusculanums forlag. 2003
18. Request and command in Kinnauri: The pragmatics of translating politeness. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area 25:2, 185–193. 2002
19. Using the Kinnauri corpus in research and teaching. Nordisk Sprogteknologi. Årbog for Nordisk Språkteknologisk Forskningsprogram 2000–2004, 75-78. Kobenhavns Universitet: Museum Tusculanums forlag. 2002
20. Locating and reusing sundry NLP flotsam in an e-learning application. LREC 2002. Workshop Proceedings. Customizing knowledge in NLP applications: Strategies, issues, and evaluation. Las Palmas. 2002 (co-author)
21. Speech reporting strategies in Kinnauri narratives. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area. 25:1,165-190. 2002
22. Evidentiality in Kinnauri. Lars Johanson and Bo Utas (eds), Evidentials in Turkic, Iranian and neighboring languages. Empirical approaches to language typology. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 2000
23. Diverging sources of new aspect morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri: External motivation or internal development. John Charles Smith and Delia Bentley (eds), Historical linguistics 1995. Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic languages, 361–375. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2000
24. Spoken language syntax. ASLA information 25.2, 45–48. 1999
25. The translation of oral texts from indigenous languages. ASLA information 25.2, 49–52. 1999
26. Spatial and temporal domains in Kinnauri. RUUL. Reports from Uppsala Linguistics 33, 72–88. 1998
27. Towards a reconstruction of the proto-West Himalayish agreement system. In: David Bradley (ed.), Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayas, 73–94. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 1997
28. Aspect and evidential morphology: A diachronic study. Cahiers de Linguistique, Asie Orientale 26:2, 281–306. 1997
29. The translation of oral texts from indigenous languages II. Översattning och tolkning som språk- och kulturmöte. Redovisning av aktiviteter under 1996-97. Faculties of Languages, Uppsala University and Stockholm University, 49–51. 1996
30. Aspect and evidential morphology. RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics 28, 21–46. 1995
31. New aspect morphology: Where does it come from? Papers from the Fifteenth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Oslo University, 451–462. 1995. Also in: RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics 28, 1–20. 1995
32. Finite verb morphology in Kinnauri. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 24:1, 257–282. 1995
33. Unidirectional grammaticalization: Diachronic and cross-linguistic evidence. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF), 350–372. 1995
34. From lexical to grammatical: The story of say and thus. RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics 26, 88–111. 1994
35. Tense in Tibeto-Burman. B. Lakshmi Bai and Aditi Mukerjee (eds), Tense and aspect in Indian languages. Hyderabad: Centre of Advanced Studies in Linguistics, Osmania University and Booklines Corporations. 1993 (co-authored)
36. Defining Indo-Aryan language family as a type. R. N. Srivastava, Suresh Kumar, K.K. Goswami and R.V. Dhongde (eds), Language and text. Studies in honor of Ashok R. Kelkar. Delhi: Kalinga Publications, 81–98. 1992 (co-authored)
37. Ergative in Mi=la ras=pa’i rnam thar. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area 12:2, 35–39. 1990
38. Pathways of the developments of the ergative in Central Tibetan. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area 14:1, 109–116. 1991
39. Tone in Patani and Central Tibetan: Parallel developments? Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area 14:1, 129–135. 1991
40. Verb say in South Asian languages: A study in linguistic convergence. Aditi Mukerjee (ed.), Language change and language contact. Hyderabad: Osmania University. 1990 (co-authored)
41. Ergative or nominative-accusative: The Tibeto-Burman case. Robert Carlsson, Scott DeLancey, Spike Gildea, Doris Payne and Anju Saxena (eds), Proceedings of the fourth annual Pacific Linguistics Conference, 420–447. Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon. 1989
42. On syntactic convergence: The case of the verb say in Tibeto-Burman. Shelley Axmaker, Annie Jaisser and Helen Singmaster (eds), Proceedings of the fourteenth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. California: University of California, Berkeley, 375–388. 1988
43. Reflexivization in Hindi: A reconsideration. International Journal of Dravidian linguistics. 1987
44. Reflexives and reciprocals in Dravidian. Studies in the Linguistic sciences 17:1, 121–131. 1987 (co-authored)
45. Relevance of the study of syntactic typology: The South Asian case. Elena Bashir et al (eds), Select papers from SALA-7: South Asian languages analysis roundtable conference, 343–353.. Indiana Linguistics Club 1987 (co-authored)
46. Language universals: Inductive or deductive? Elena Bashir et al (eds), Select papers from SALA-7: South Asian languages analysis roundtable conference, 337–342. Indiana University Linguistics Club. 1987 (co-authored)
47. Intensifiers in Hindi. International Journal of Dravidian linguistics 14:1, 56–68. 1985 (co-authored)
48. Reflexivization in Telugu. Papers in Linguistics 17:4, 337–350. 1984 (co-authored)
Dissertations
1. Finite verb morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Oregon. 1992
2. A Study of reflexives and intensifiers in major Indo-Aryan languages. M.Phil thesis. Delhi University. 1984
III. IT-based teaching
A web-based grammar support system: ITG, whose two main characteristics are (i) natural language corpora as the basis for generating all excercises and (ii) IT-based support system.