Probal Dasgupta
List of John Benjamins publications for which Probal Dasgupta plays a role.
Journal
Articles
Review of Coulmas (2016): Guardians of language: Twenty voices through history Language Problems and Language Planning 40:3, pp. 328–331
2016 Review
Review of Minnaja & Silfer (2015): Historio de la esperanta literaturo Language Problems and Language Planning 40:3, pp. 316–319
2016 Review
Introduction. Between temples and templates: History’s claims on the translator The Translator as Mediator of Cultures, Tonkin, Humphrey and Maria Esposito Frank (eds.), pp. 1–14
2010 The present articulation of history’s claims on translation theory is built around four propositions: (a) The sacred temple, in the ancient first wave of the activity, set up one broadly identifiable type of translation enterprise; (b) The scientific template, in the modern second wave, associated… read more | Article
2010
Lakshmiswar Sinha (1905–1977) was a major figure both as a builder of modern India, who focused on correcting the over-intellectualizing bias of education in a manual direction, and as the first Indian Esperantist who worked to connect India and the worldwide Esperanto-speaking community. He is… read more | Article
The Ubiquitous Complementizer Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honour of K. A. Jayaseelan, Bayer, Josef, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and M.T. Hany Babu (eds.), pp. 163–173
2007 Complement and adjunct clauses in Bangla often exhibit internal complementizers. Some of these, the present paper suggests, are particles base-generated in situ that covertly move their features to C at LF. This suggestion forms the core of a reasonably complete account of the placement of various… read more | Article
Look across: The paradigmatic axis and Bangla causatives Argument Structure, Reuland, Eric J., Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Giorgos Spathas (eds.), pp. 213–237
2007 The standard notions of suppletion ansd blocking are tried against the data of Bangla causatives and found wanting. The framework of formalist generative grammar that uses these notions are tried against the surprising data of Bangla sarcastic causatives and found wanting. Remedies are suggested… read more | Article
Trafficking in words: Languages, missionaries and translators In Translation – Reflections, Refractions, Transformations, St-Pierre, Paul and Prafulla C. Kar (eds.), pp. 57–72
2007 Article
6. Some non-nominative subjects in Bangla Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 1, Bhaskararao, Peri and Karumuri V. Subbarao (eds.), pp. 129 ff.
2004 Chapter
Linguistic recycling and the open community Language Problems and Language Planning 25:3, pp. 289–301
2001 When an international community uses a WDL (widely distributed language) such as English or French, words in this WDL globally perform a recycling function that bridges the gaps between the spatially restricted versions of such a WDL. At one level of access, we can study this recycling particularly… read more | Miscellaneous
On Morphophonology: A view from the outside Trubetzkoy's Orphan: Proceedings of the Montréal Roundtable on “Morphonology: contemporary responses” (Montréal, October 1994), Singh, Rajendra (ed.), pp. 318–331
1996 Article
Review of Mcconnell, Gendron, Morris, Fournier & Lafrance (1993): Atlas international de la vitalité linguistique
Les langues constitutionnelles de l’Inde Language Problems and Language Planning 19:3, pp. 300–302
1995 Review
Toward a Dialogue between the Sociolinguistic Sciences and Esperanto Culture Language Problems and Language Planning 11:3, pp. 305–334
1987 RESUMO Cele al dialogo inter la socilingvistikaj sciencoj kaj la Esperanto-kulturo Gravaj figuroj en la nuntempa Esperanto-kulturo lastatempe esprimadas interesiĝon pri utiligo de la rimedoj de avangardaj tendencoj en la moderna scienca kaj kultura mondo, kaj pri lanĉo de dialogo kun iliaj… read more | Article