About the Department
The Department, founded in 2005, one of the richest ones in the university, in terms of associated projects with UGC –SAP, Endangered Language Projects, and other Government organs, such as Ministry of IT, Ministry of Education, aims at making forked concentration on Dravidian languages and Computational side of Linguistics.
On the Dravidian side of Studies, Koya, Kolami and Irukula languages were studied for various shades of research. To its Computational Side of Studies it concentrated on inflectional, derivational and lexical sides of sentences.
The Department, in its twenty years of existence, conducted National Seminars and Workshops, funded by various central government institutions, for its innovative research themes.
Vision & Mission
Vision
The Department of Dravidian and Computational Linguistics aspires to excel in the areas of Dravidian Linguistic Studies, apply computational techniques to natural languages and strive to contribute to the knowledge of language studies. It also desires to become Centre of Excellence.
Mission
To provide innovative and quality education in Advanced Linguistics and to collaborate with national and international institutions, it aims to undertake research in Dravidian languages and describe Dravidian speech forms and document endangered Dravidian languages, besides resource building.
Faculty
Dr.Ganesan Ambedkar
M.A, M.Phil, Ph.D
Professor & Head
Morphology
94907-36166
ganesan_ambedkar@outlook.com
Prof.M. C. Kesava Murty
M.A, M..Phil, Ph.D
Professor
Computational Linguistics, Lexical Semantics
94405-05878
kesavamurty.mc@gmail.com
Dr. M. Prasad Naik
M.A, MBA, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Tribal Linguistics,Lexicography, Translation, Morphology
94946-97904
prasadnaik6@gmail.com
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Programmes Offered
Programmes
Board Of Studies
From the academic year (2013-2014) Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) is introduced in all departments of the University. According to this system the M.A. Linguistics Programme requires a student to earn 100 credits in four semesters. The Board of Studies in Linguistics is approved course structure and CBCS syllabus of M.A. Linguistics Programme for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th semester on 20th November 2019.
List Of Board Of Studies
Research Aspects
| S.No | Name of the Faculty | Number of Papers Published | Publication Indexing | Number of Books Published with ISBN | ||||||
| National | International | Cumulative IF | #Total Citations | h index | ||||||
| National | International | |||||||||
| 1 | Prof. Ganesan Ambedkar | 30 | 02 | — | — | — | 02 | — | ||
| 2 | Prof. M.C. Kesavamurty | 31 | 01 | — | — | — | 09 | — | ||
| 3 | Dr. M. Prasad Naik | 24 | 01 | — | — | — | 01 | — | ||
S.No | Name of the Faculty | Title of the Project | Funding Agency | Duration of Project | completed / on going | |
From | To | |||||
1 | Prof. Ganesan Ambedkar | Documentation of Central Dravidian Languages
| UGC (SAP-DRS -1)
| 2017- | 2019 | Phase One is completed.
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2 | Prof. M.C. Kesava Murty | Documentation of Central Dravidian Languages
| UGC (SAP-DRS -1)
| 2017- | 2019 | Phase One is completed.
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| Meeting of Expert Advisory Committee on Definitional Dictionaries of Political Science (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam) – Phase 1 | Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), Ministry of Education, Govt. of India. | 2023 | 2023 | Phase one is completed. |
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| Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (Telugu) – Phase 2 | Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India | 2012 | 2017 | Phase-two |
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| Telugu WordNet Phase-2 Consortium Project on Dravidian WordNet | Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India | 2011 | 2015 | Phase – two |
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| Indian Languages Corpora Initiative [Telugu] | Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, GoI. | 2009 | 2012 |
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| Valency Lexicon of Telugu Verbs | UGC-Minor Research Project | 2011 | 2012 | Chief Investigator |
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| Telugu WordNet Phase -1 | Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India | 2009 | 2011 | Principal Investigator |
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| Development of Indian Language-Indian Language MT System (ILIL-MT) [Telugu-Tamil] | : Dept. of IT, Ministry of Communications and IT, GoI | 2007 | 2009 | Co-cordinator |
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| Semantic Similarities and Verb Sense Disambiguation in Telugu | Dravidian University | 2007 | 2009 | Chief Investigator |
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| Compilation of Dictionary in Linguistics | UGC | 2009 | 2012 | Co-Principal Investigator |
3. | Dr. M. Prasad Naik,
| Centre for Preservation of Endangered Dravidian Languages (CPeDL) | UGC | 2015 | 2024 March (1st Phase) | Deputy Director |
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Seminars & Workshops
Ph.D Awardees / Pursuing
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