Deepak Alok is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. His research interest is Generative Syntax and its interfaces with Semantics and Pragmatics. Deepak is also interested in applying formal linguistics knowledge to Natural language processing. Specific topics that he is interested in are Allocutivity/Honorification in the verbal and nominal domain, Indexical Shift, Discourse particles, Split constructions, Bare nominals, classifiers and number markings, and Corpus and Universal dependency. Deepak received his PhD from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. His PhD work has contributed to our understanding of ‘speaker’ and ‘addressee’ in the grammar of natural language.
Contact Information
Office: MS620 (5th floor), MS Building
Email: alokdeepak[at]iitd[dot]ac[dot]in
Phone: 01126591433
Postal address
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016
India
Research Areas
Broad: Generative Syntax and its interfaces with Semantics and Pragmatics, Natural
language processing.
Narrow: Speaker and addressee in the grammar of natural language, Honorification/allocutivity
in the verbal and nominal domain, Indexical Shift, Discourse particles, Split constructions,
Bare nominals, Classifiers and number marking, and Corpus and Universal dependency.
Academic Background
PhD, 2020, Rutgers University, USA
MPhil, 2012, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
MA , 2010, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
BA, 2008, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Employment History
Senior Linguist, 1st Nov 2020 - 10th July 2023, Panlingua Language Processing LLP, New Delhi
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Deepak Alok & Bill Haddican. 2022. The formal heterogeneity of allocutivity.
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). pp.1-41. DOI:https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.7670
Deepak Alok & Mark Baker. 2022. Person and honori cation: Features and
interactions in Magahi. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). pp.1-35.DOI:
https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.7675
Deepak Alok. 2021. Morphosyntax of Magahi Addressee Agreement. Syntax, 24(3).
pp.263-296. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12213
Deepak Alok. 2020. Asymmetry in splitting of subject and object in Hindi and
Magahi. Indian Linguistics 81(3-4). pp. 53-75.
Deepak Alok. 2014. The morpho-syntax of Nominal Particle -wa. Indian Linguis-
tics, 75(3-4). pp. 39-44. ISSN: 0378-0759.
Deepak Alok. 2014. Magahi Nominal Particle -wa. Indian Linguistics, 75 (1-2).
pp. 69- 74, ISSN: 0378-0759.
Chapters
Troy Messick & Deepak Alok. 2021. Stripping in Hindi: Does clause size matter?
In Sabine Laszakovits Zheng Shen (eds.), The size of things I: Structure building,
247-263. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo. 5524296.
Deepak Alok, Atul Kr. Ojha & Sriniket Kr. Mishra. 2019. A corpus-based study
of semantics of bare nominals in Magahi and Bhojpuri: The case of article-less
languages. In Shailendra Kumar and Shweta Sinha (ed.), Linguistic Ecology of
Bihar, 116-127, Lincom GMBH. ISBN 3862889831, 9783862889839
Veneeta Dayal & Deepak Alok. 2017. Scope Marking at the Syntax-Semantics
Interface. Oxford Research Encyclopedia. Published online: https://doi.org/10.
1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.133
Conferences
2022, Jointly with Pritha Majumdar, Akanskha Bansal, Atul Kr. Ojha and John P. McCrae.
Bengali and Magahi PUD Treebank and Parser. 6th Workshop on Indian Language Data
Resource and Evaluation (WILDRE-6) at LREC2022, May 22-24.Palais du Pharo, France.
2021, jointly with Mohit Raj, Shyam Ratan, Ritesh Kumar & Atul Kr. Ojha. Developing
Universal Dependencies Treebanks for Magahi and Braj. Workshop on Parsing and its
Applications for Indian Languages (PAIL-2021), 16-19 Dec 2021. Online.
2021, Grammar of Honori cation. Poster presented at 39th meeting of the West Coast
Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL-39). Department of Linguistics, The University
of Arizona, 8-11 April. Online.
2021, Jointly with Bill Haddican. On some parameters of allocutive marking. The 9th
Cambridge Comparative Syntax conference (CamCoS 9), 19-20 January 2021.Newcastle,
UK.
2021, Jointly with Mark Baker. Person and Honori cation: Features and Interactions in
Magahi. The 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Jan 7-10.
Online
2021, Jointly with Bill Haddican. Cross-linguistic di erences in embedded/root asymmetries
in allocutive marking. The 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA),
Jan 7-10. Online.
2019, Jointly with Mark Baker, On the Syntax of Addressee Agreement and Indexical Shift
in Magahi. The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Jan 3-6,
Sheraton New York Times Square,New York.
2019, Morphosyntax of Magahi Addressee Agreement. FASAL-9, March 16-17, Portland,
Oregon.
2019, 2nd person pronoun bound by Hr: Evidence from Magahi Addressee Agreement.
Poster presented at the workshop on Person and perspective, May 3- 4. Los Angeles, CA.
2019, Jointly with Ritesh Kumar, Atul Kr. Ojha, Bornini Lahiri, Mayank Jain, Language
Resources and Technology Development Efforts for some Lesser-known Indian Languages.
Language Technologies for All (LT4ALL), Dec 4-, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France.
2016, Jointly with Ritesh Kumar, Atul Kr. Ojha, Bornini Lahiri. Developing Resources
and Tools for some Lesser-known Languages of India. Regional ICON(regICON) 2016,
December 16, IIT-BHU, Varanasi.
2016, The syntax of split: The case of Hindi and Magahi. Poster presented at FASAL-6,
March 12-13, UMass Amherst.
2014, On two forms of Magahi nouns. FASAL-4, March 29-30, Rutgers University.
2013, The morpho-syntax of Nominal Particle -wa. SCONLI-7, Feb 8-10, Aligarh Muslim
University, Aligarh.
2012, Jointly with Sriniket kumar Mishra. What do Indian Languages have: DP or NP?
18th Himalayan Languages Symposium (18th HLS), Sep 10-12, BHU, Varanasi.
2012, Magahi Spatial Postposition. SCONLI-6, Feb 17-19, BHU, Varanasi.
2011, Causative Construction in Magahi. SCONLI-3, Feb 19-20, Jawaharlal Nehru Univer-
sity, Delhi.
2008, Honorificity in Magahi. SCONLI-2, Feb 9-10, Delhi University, Delhi.
2006, Jointly with Anil Thakur & Ravi Prakash, Some Socio-Psycho-Linguistic Aspects of
Abusive Words in Hindi-Bhojpuri. The 28th All India Conference of Linguists, BHU. Nov,
2-4.
Honours
2023, The Young Faculty Incentive Fellowship, IIT Delhi
2020, Special Study Award, Tarak Nath Das Foundation
2016, Mellon Summer Research Grant, Andrew Mellon Foundation
2012, Junior Research Fellowship (UGC-NET JRF), University Grants Commission (UGC), India
2010, Gold Medal (standing first in M.A.), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India.
2008, Certificate of Merit (standing first in B.A), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India.
2014-2019, Excellence Fellowship for Doctoral Study , Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA.