Department of Linguistics

Department of Linguistics

Research Profile

My research is focused on language documentation, description, revitalization and socio-historical linguistics of the minority/ lesser-known/ endangered languages of Northeast India. My Ph.D thesis A Dialectal Study of Maring (a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in southeast Manipur) compared the languages/ dialects of five villages based on proto-Tibeto-Burman and proto-Kuki-chin to understand the history of language contact, change and variation.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Linda Konnerth. I will be doing a bottom-up grammatical comparison of the language relationships in the Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur. The project will investigate the phylogenetic relationship between Maringic and South-Central groups of Sino-Tibetan/ Trans Himalayan languages, and will be crucial for understanding linguistic diversity and prehistory of the region.

Publications

Selected Publications

Kanshouwa, Susie. (2021). Causatives in Maring. Himalayan Linguistics. Vol 20 (1) - Languages and Peoples of the Eastern Himalayan Region:19-32 https://doi.org/10.5070/H920253811

Kanshouwa, Susie. (2020). Assimilation in Maring. Himalayan Linguistics. Vol 19(2) - Languages and Peoples of the Eastern Himalayan Region: 56–68. https://doi.org/10.5070/H91150998

Talks

Recent and upcoming talks

Kanshouwa, Susie. (2024). Person Markings in Saibol and Narum. Paper presented at Student conference in Linguistics, Institute of Linguistics, University of Bern, October 13, 2024.

Kanshouwa, Susie. (2024).  A Socio-historical Linguistics of Maring. Invited talk at Linguistic Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, June 24, 2024.

Kanshouwa, Susie. (2024). Verb Stem Alternation in Saibol and Narum. Paper presented at The Twentieth Fourth Himalayan Language Symposium, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, June 13, 2024

Kanshouwa, Susie. (2023). Affixes in Maring. Paper presented at The Eleventh International Conference of the Northeast Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS12), Guwahati University, Assam, India.

Kanshouwa, Susie. (2022). Fieldwork Experience in Northeast India as a community linguist. Invited talk (online) at Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, December 7, 2022.

Teaching

Teaching: current and past courses

2024. An Introduction to the Languages of Northeast India

2018.  Introduction to Linguistics II

CV

Curriculum Vitae

Since September 2024

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Bern

01.2024 – 07.2024

Research Associate at North East Institute of Language and Culture, Guwahati, Assam

2023

Ph.D in Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

2016

M.Phil in Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

2014

MA in Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

2012

BA in English Literature, Manipur University