Veneeta Dayal

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Veneeta Dayal (born December 5, 1956) is an American linguist. She is currently the Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. [1]

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Education and research

Dayal was born in India. She received a BA, MA, and M. Phil in English Literature from Delhi University. She earned a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University in 1991, under the supervision of Gennaro Chierchia. [2] Before taking up a position at Yale, she was on the faculty of Rutgers University, where she served as Department chair from 2005 to 2008 and Acting Dean of Humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences from 2008 to 2009. [3] [4]

Dayal's research focuses on the interface of semantics and syntax, especially the areas of question forms and relative clauses, bare nominals and genericity, and quantifier words signalling free choice, such as "any." She has examined these forms in data from Hindi as well as English. [5]

Awards and distinctions

Since 2012 she has been an Associate Editor for the journal Linguistics and Philosophy . [6]

She was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Award for 2004- 2005: “South Asian Languages and Semantic Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Study” for research on classifiers in South Asian languages. [7]

In 2002-2003, she was awarded a National Science Foundation grant, “Quantification without Quantifiers,” to study the meaning conveyed by nouns without articles in English, Korean, Hebrew, and Hindi. [8]

Selected publications

References

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  4. "Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study". Archived from the original on July 4, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
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  6. Forbes, Graeme (2012). "Acknowledgement to reviewers (2009–2012)". Linguistics and Philosophy. 35 (6): 533–535. doi:10.1007/s10988-013-9128-2. S2CID   62680903.
  7. "2004-2005 U.S. Fulbright Scholar Grantees" (PDF). Retrieved July 2, 2015.
  8. "NSF Award Search: Award # 0001669 - Quantification Without Quantifiers: Number Sensitivity in Articleless Constructions". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  9. Review by Maribel Romero. Language. Volume 75, Number 1, March 1999. 187.