Francis Monsang

Francis Monsang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), specializing in linguistics with a focus on Tibeto-Burman and South Asian languages. He holds a PhD from IIT Madras (2022) and previously served as Guest Faculty at The English and Foreign Languages University, Shillong.

Education:

• PhD in Linguistics – Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2022)

Research Interests: His work spans across phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, applied linguistics, language structure, language typology, and language documentation, with a special emphasis on Tibeto-Burman and South Asian languages. He is particularly engaged in the study of the Monsang language and its cultural context.

Publications: His research output includes significant contributions to the documentation and linguistic analysis of the Monsang language, covering ethnographic, syntactic, morphological, and phonological dimensions. His work has appeared in reputable journals such as Himalayan Linguistics and SKY Journal of Linguistics.