Rajesh Bhatt

Rajesh Bhatt is a Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (1999). His research focuses on the syntax-semantics interface, comparative syntax of Modern Indo-Aryan languages, and Tree Adjoining Grammars. He previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin and has contributed to the NSF-funded Hindi/Urdu Treebanks project.

Education:

• PhD in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 1999

Research Interests:

• Interaction of aspect and modality
• Comparative syntax, including long-distance agreement and correlative constructions
• Computational linguistics, particularly treebank development and multi-layered annotation

Teaching & Contributions:

• Developed courses on syntax, formal methods, and computational linguistics
• Collaborated on the Hindi/Urdu Treebanks project
• Organized workshops on comparative syntax and computational linguistics