Anju Saxena

Anju Saxena’s training as a researcher and teacher as well as her subsequent professional career in academia have all been in the discipline of General Linguistics. She was born and raised in Delhi, where she also completed her undergraduate education in linguistics. A never-waning fascination with South Asia as a cornucopia of food for linguistic thought, has led to her linguistic research being centred on South Asian languages. She has made linguistic investigations of ancient languages (Sanskrit and Classical Tibetan), but most of her work has been on modern languages (representing three major language families of South Asia), where she has conducted and supervised fieldwork on lesser-known languages in North India (e.g. Kinnauri, Gahri and Tinani).

Besides studying their linguistic structures, she is also interested in using modern technologies to document these languages, digital documentation of Indian minority languages, and using linguistic corpora in teaching linguistics at university level (IT-based collaborative learning).

Links:
http://www.lingfil.uu.se/faculty/anjusaxena/korpusen.html (Kinnauri website)
http://www.ciil-uppsala-spokencorpus.net/ (Digital documentation)
http://www.lingfil.uu.se/faculty/anjusaxena/distum.html (Collaborative learning)