Dr. Utpal Lahiri is a theoretical linguist specializing in semantics and its interfaces with syntax and pragmatics. He received a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and then switched to Linguistics, receiving an M.A. from Syracuse University (NY, USA) and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA). He has published widely-cited articles in journals like Natural Language Semantics, Linguistics and Philosophy, Lingua, on a variety of topics in semantics, mainly polarity and the semantics of interrogatives (with data mostly from English and Spanish), some of which are considered seminal in the field. He is also the author of a book (published by OUP International) and co-editor of another (published by Kluwer/Springer International). He has recently worked on the semantics of modals, and is currently revising two articles on the semantics and pragmatics of scalar particles in Modern Greek and Spanish. His theoretical work draws from a variety of languages (Hindi, Bangla, English, Spanish, Modern Greek). His Google Scholar profile may be found in https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=xowc0GUAAAAJ&hl=en

Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Semantics of Polarity, Semantics of Interrogatives and other non declaratives, Modality, South Asian Linguistics, Romance Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics of Scalar Particles, Philosophy of Language and Linguistics.

⚽  “Generalized Quantifiers in Language and Logic”, The EFL Journal 80:1, January 2017 (ISSN 0976-660X)

⚽  “Modal-Aspect Interactions in Bangla”, Proceedings of FASAL 11, Journal of South Asian Linguistics. Vol. 1 No. 1, 2022. On-Line ISSN: 1947-8232 Print ISSN: 1947-8240. https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/jsal/index.php/fasal/article/view/232

⚽  “Binding Theory, Scope Reconstruction, and NPI Licensing Under Scrambling in Hindi”. Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax, Sengupta, G., S. Sircar, G. Raman and R. Balusu (eds.), Singapore: Springer

⚽  Nature Singapore, 2018, pp. 183-194. ISBN: 978-981-10-4294-2 (eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4295-9). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-4295-9_9