Anju Saxena
Professor in General Linguistics at Department of Linguistics and Philology
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- +46 18 471 14 57
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- anju.saxena@lingfil.uu.se
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- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA
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Publications
Recent publications
LingFN: A Framenet for the Linguistic Domain
Part of Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, p. 367-379, 2023
And then there was one: Kanashi numerals from borrowed superdiversity to borrowed uniformity
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 145-170, Mouton de Gruyter, 2022
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The linguistic landscape of the Indian Himalayas: Languages in Kinnaur
Brill Academic Publishers, 2022
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Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi
Walter de Gruyter, 2022
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A linguistic sketch of Kanashi
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 53-127, Mouton de Gruyter, 2022
All publications
Articles in journal
A bird’s-eye view on South Asian languages through LSI
Part of Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, p. 203-237, 2020
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Language contact in Kinnaur (the Indian Himalayas)
Part of Årsbok / Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala, p. 87-102, 2018
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 185-191, 2012
Dialect classification in the Himalayas: a computational approach
Part of NEALT proceedings series, p. 307-310, 2011
Contrastive focus in Kinnauri narratives
Part of Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft, 2007
Part of Sydasien, 2005
Part of Sydasien, 2005
Speech reporting strategies in Kinnauri narratives.
Part of Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, p. 165-190, 2003
Some advantages of using corpora in teaching: IT-based collaborative learning in grammar.
Part of Nordisk Sprogteknologi. Årbog for nordisk sprogteknologisk forskningsprogram 2000-2004, 2003
Speech reporting strategies in Kinnauri narratives
Part of Linguistics of the Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, p. 165-190, 2002
Part of Språkröret, p. 1, 2001
Part of ASLA Information, p. 45-48, 1999
The translation of oral texts from indigenous languages
Part of ASLA Information, p. 49-52, 1999
Aspect and evidential morphology: A diachronic study
Part of Cahiers de Linguistique, Asie Orientale, p. 281-306, 1997
Unidirectional grammaticalization: Diachronic and cross-linguistic evidence
Part of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF), p. 350-372, 1995
Finite verb morphology in Kinnauri
Part of Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, p. 257-282, 1995
Books
The linguistic landscape of the Indian Himalayas: Languages in Kinnaur
Brill Academic Publishers, 2022
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Himalayan Languages.: Past and Present.
Mouton de Gruyter., 2004
Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2001
Internal and external factors in language change : aspect in Tibeto-Kinnauri
Uppsala : Dep. of Linguistics, Uppsala Univ., 1997
Chapters in book
And then there was one: Kanashi numerals from borrowed superdiversity to borrowed uniformity
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 145-170, Mouton de Gruyter, 2022
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A linguistic sketch of Kanashi
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 53-127, Mouton de Gruyter, 2022
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 13-52, Walter de Gruyter, 2022
Clues to Kanashi prehistory 1: Loanword adaptation in nouns and adjectives
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 173-214, Mouton de Gruyter, 2022
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Clues to Kanashi prehistory 2: Loanword adaptation in verbs
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 215-234, Mouton de Gruyter, 2022
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Linguistic variation: A challenge for describing the phonology of Kanashi
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 131-144, Mouton de Gruyter, 2022
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Kanashi and West Himalayish: Genealogy, language contact, prehistoric migrations
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 237-254, De Gruyter Mouton, 2022
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Introduction: Kanashi, its speakers, its linguistic and extralinguistic context
Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 3-11, De Gruyter Mouton, 2022
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Part of Synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi, p. 257-315, De Gruyter Mouton, 2022
Swedish FrameNet++ and comparative linguistics
Part of The Swedish FrameNet++, p. 139-166, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021
Automatic extraction of typological linguistic features from descriptive grammars
Part of Text, Speech, and Dialogue, p. 111-119, Springer, 2017
Part of The Sino-Tibetan languages, p. 756-772, Routledge, 2017
Carving Tibeto-Kanauri by its joints: Using basic vocabulary lists for genetic grouping of languages
Part of Approaches to measuring linguistic differences, p. 175-198, Mouton de Gruyter, 2013
The Intercontinental Dictionary Series - a rich and principled database for language comparison
Part of Approaches to measuring linguistic differences, p. 285-302, Mouton de Gruyter, 2013
Context shift and linguistic coding in Kinnauri narratives
Part of Linguistics of the Himalayas and beyond, p. 247-264, Mouton de Gruyter, 2011
Corpora in grammar learning - Evaluation of ITG
Part of Resourceful Language Technology, 2008
Part of Chomolangma, Demawend und Kasbek, 2008
Part of One thousand languages, p. 112-135, University of California Press/Thames & Hudson, 2008
Part of Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia, p. 1-28, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 2006
Part of Encyclopedia of languages and linguistics, 2nd edition, p. 131-133, Elsevier, 2006
It takes two to tango: Language and cultural (co)variation in digital documentation
Part of Language and cultural contact: Digital documentation, The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, London, 2006
Part of CALL for the Nordic languages, p. 125-146, Samfundslitteratur, Köpenhamn, 2004
On discourse functions of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives
Part of Himalayan languages, p. 213-238, Mouton de Gruyter, 2004
Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world: – the study of Himalayan languages.
Part of Himalayan languages, p. 3-32, Mouton de Gruyter, 2004
Using the Kinnauri corpus in research and teaching
Part of Nordisk Sprogteknologi. Årbog for Nordisk Språkteknologisk Forskningsprogram 2000-2004, p. 75-78, Kobenhavns Universitet: Museum Tusculanums forlag, 2002
Part of Proceedings of the International Conference of Historical Linguistics, p. 361-375, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000
Part of Evidentials in Turkic, Iranian and Neighboring Languages. Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000
Spatial and temporal domains in Kinnauri
Part of RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics, p. 72-88, Uppsala: Det. of Linguistics, Uppsala University, 1998
Towards a reconstruction of the proto-West Himalayish agreement system
Part of Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Himalayas. Pacific Linguistics, p. 73-94, Canberra: Australian National University, 1997
The translation of oral texts from indigenous languages. II
Part of Translation and Interpretating. A Meeting between Language and Culture. Description of activities 1996-97, p. 49-51, Språkvetenskapliga sektionerna vid universiteten i Stockholm och Uppsala, 1996
The translation of oral texts from indigenous languages. I
Part of Ansökan till Riksbankens jubileumsfond. Översättning och tolkning som språk- och kulturmöte, p. 63-67, Språkvetenskapliga sektionerna vid universiteten i Stockholm och Uppsala, 1995
New aspect morphology: Where does it come from?
Part of RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics, p. 1-20, Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University., 1995
Aspect and evidential morphology
Part of RUUL. Reports from Uppsala University Linguistics, p. 21-46, Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University., 1995
Collections (editor)
Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi
Walter de Gruyter, 2022
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Special issue: Micro-linguistic areas in South Asia
Mouton de Gruyter, 2015
Approaches to measuring linguistic differences
Mouton de Gruyter, 2013
Orientalia Suecana: Vol. LX (2011)
Uppsala universitet, 2012
Orientalia Suecana: Vol. 59 (2010)
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, 2010
Orientalia Suecana: Vol. 58 (2009)
Department of linguistics and philology, Uppsala universitet, 2009
Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 2006
Department of Asian and African Languages, Uppsala University, 2003
Uppsala University, 2003
Conference papers
LingFN: A Framenet for the Linguistic Domain
Part of Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, p. 367-379, 2023
Part of Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (Cicling 2017), Pt I, p. 550-563, 2018
LingFN: Towards a Framenet for the Linguistics Domain
Part of Proceedings of the LREC 2018 Workshop International FrameNet Workshop 2018, p. 37-43, 2018
Linguistic landscaping of South Asia using digital language resources: Genetic vs. areal linguistics
Part of Proceedings of LREC 2014, p. 3137-3144, 2014
Towards empirical classification of Kinnauri varieties
Part of Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistics Theory 3, p. 15-25, 2011
Part of Multilingualism, 2009
Building the Uppsala Hindi Corpus
Part of SLTC 2008, 2008
Digital documentation of lesser-known languages in India: Its application in teaching Linguistics
Part of ALLC/ACH 2004, 2004
Locating and reusing sundry NLP flotsam in an e-learning application
Part of LREC 2002. Workshop Proceedings. Customizing knowledge in NLP applications: Strategies, issues, and evaluation, p. 45-51, 2002
Use of corpus of lesser-known languages on the internet for the teaching of syntax
Part of Proceedings from the workshop on the use of multimedia in language teaching, 2000
New aspect morphology: Where does it come from?
Part of Papers from the Fifteenth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, p. 451-462, 1995