Probal Dasgupta
Probal Dasgupta (born September 19, 1953 in Calcutta , West Bengal ) is an Indian linguist . From 2007 to 2013 he was chairman of the World Esperanto Federation .
science
Dasgupta received his PhD from the City University of New York on the generative syntax of his mother tongue, Bengali . Since 1989 he has been Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Hyderabad . Since 2006 he has been doing lexical research at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata .
He has been an honorary member of the US Linguistics Society since 2004 .
Esperanto
As a 17-year-old Dasgupta and Kálmán Kalocsay u. a. corresponding about the translation from the works of Tagore . After the World Congress in 1977 he was a three-week volunteer at the headquarters of the Esperanto World Federation in Rotterdam and then represented the World Federation at the United Nations . From 2007 to 2013 Dasgupta was chairman of the World Federation.
He has been a member of the Esperanto Academy since 1983 , its Vice-President since 2001 and its President since 2016.
Works (selection)
- Rabindranath Tagore: Primico, poems translated by Probal Dasgupta, Copenhagen: TK, 1977
- Towards a dialogue between the sociolinguistic sciences and Esperanto culture, Pune 1987
- The otherness of English: India's auntie tongue syndrome, New Delhi / Thousand Oaks / London: Sage, 1993
- Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics, ed. v. Rajendra Singh, Probal Dasgupta, Jayant K. Lele, New Delhi: Sage, 1995, ISBN 81-7036-467-1
- After Etymology, 2000
Web links
- Nouns language rights
- Translation and the Application of Linguistics Article, Meta, vol. 39, n ° 2, 1994, p. 374-386.
- LiberaFolio.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dasgupta, Probal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolkata , West Bengal |