Ashwini Deo

Ashwini Deo is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University (2006) and Masters degrees in Sanskrit Grammar and Linguistics from Pune, India (1999). Her research focuses on systematic semantic change, functional morphemes (e.g., tense-aspect, negation), synchronic phenomena in aspect and discourse particles, and diachronic studies of Indo-Aryan languages over 3000 years.

• Education: PhD, Stanford University (2006); MAs in Sanskrit Grammar and Linguistics, Pune, India (1999)

Research interests include case/agreement patterns in split-ergative systems, lexical semantics of verbs, and metered verse. She teaches courses such as Semantics I, Linguistic History of India, and Research in Syntax and Semantics.

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