Debopam Das

Debopam Das is a University Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and holds a Docent position in English Discourse Analysis at the University of Turku. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2018-2023) and University of Potsdam (2016-2018).

Education:

• PhD in Linguistics, Simon Fraser University (2009-2014)
• Master's in Linguistics, University of Calcutta (2004-2007)
• Bachelor of Arts in English, University of Calcutta (2000-2004)

Research Focus: Specializes in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and lexicography. Primary interests include:

• Discourse relations signaling and continuity
• Corpus development/annotation for discourse studies
• Cross-linguistic analysis of relative clauses in L2 learners
• Lexicon development for discourse connectives

Collaborations & Resources: Leads the ICLE-RC project on learner English with Dr. Izabela Czerniak. Developed key linguistic resources including:

• RST Signaling Corpus
• DiMLex-Eng/Bangla lexicons
• RST Continuity Corpus