Research in the past

Research projects completed in the Department :

1. Lexicalization patterns in Gormati (Banjara language) UGC Minor Research Project 2018-19
2. Verbal morphology of Gorboli (Banjara language) UGC Minor Research Project 2018-19
3. A comparative study of case systems of Zhadiboli and Marathi UGC Minor Research Project 2018-19
4. “Development of pronunciation lexicon and associated experimental study of phonemic, phonetic and acoustic features for Indic languages (Marathi)”: a two year project funded by DIT, New Delhi. Collaboration with TIFR, Mumbai  (2012-2015).
5. “Orality in the Structuralist Philosophy of Language” – a two year project funded by ICPR, New Delhi (2011-13)
6. “Linguistic Landscape of Vasai” – a UGC funded minor research project (2011-12) on a relatively less researched area of linguistic landscape and multilingualism.

M.Phil and Ph.D. research in the past years:

            Ph.D. degrees awarded in the recent years     

Year of awarding degree	Name of the student	Title of the dissertation
2017	Ms. Shaima Al-Issa	Literary Narratives, Culture and Ideology : A Semiolinguistic Study of OrhanPamuk’s Fictional Discourse
2015	Ms. Renuka Ozarkar	Structures of Marathi Verbs
2012	Ms. Anjali Singh	English in India and Japan
2012	Mr. Mohammad B. Aghaei	A Semiotic Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Novels
2010	Mr. Rajeev Jalvi	Hearing Impairment & Linguistic Development : Issues and Perspectives

 M.Phil. degrees awarded in the recent past

The Department started M.Phil programme in 2012-13. As per the new regulations of the UGC, the M.Phil programme is discontinued w.e.f. 2022-23. During these years, 3 students have been conferred the M.Phil degree.    

Year of awarding degree	Name of the student	Title of the dissertation
2021	Ms. Priyanka Dingankar	Measure of Textual Lexical Diversity (MTLD) Tool for Marathi*
2014	Ms. Manasi Nadkarni	Phonological & Morphological Patterns in Antruzi, Bardesi, & Saxti Konkani: A Comparative Study
2014	Ms. Vrushali Surve	Stylist Analysis of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Lowland”

*The link and the documentation of the Marathi MTLD tool can be found under “Resources”.

MA research in the past : 

Languages analysed in the Department 

As part of the Field Methods course and Project-based courses in the MA programme, the students of the Department collect the data and analyse aspects of some language which is not adequately analyzed previously. It is often some minority language or a tribal language. They present a dissertation based on their analysis of the language. Some of the languages worked upon in recent year are:

Language Family	Languages
Indo-Aryan	Banjara (Lamani/Gorboli)
	Bhili – Mawchi varieties (Indo-Aryan)
	Konkani
	Kulluvi
	Kutchi
	Maithili
	Multani (Saraiki)
	Parushi (a secret language of Davri Gosawi community)
	Wadvali
	Warli
Sino-Tibetan	Mizo
	Poula
	Tanghkhul Naga
Dravidian	Telugu
	Tulu
Austro-Asiatic	Khasi