PLAN BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR THE YEAR 2013-2014 Revised as on 29 June 2012 Social Sciences Division Indian Statistical Institute 203, Barrackpore Trunk Road Kolkata 700 108 Social Sciences Division, ISI 2 Contents Project Name of the Project Page Leader(s) Members of the Technical Advisory Committee Social Sciences Division for the … … 3 year 2010-2012 1 Economic Research Unit 1.1 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 41 2 Linguistic Research Unit 2.2 Biaxial Study of Bangla Lexicosyntax. (General, New) … Probal Dasgupta … 5 2.3 Bengali Pronunciation Dictionary in Electronic and Printed Form. (General, On- … Niladri Sekhar Dash … 23 going) 2.4 Interlexical study of Asamiya in a substantivist framework. (NE, On-going) … Probal Dasgupta … 25 2.5 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 42 3 Population Studies Unit 3.3 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 44 4 Psychology Research Unit 4.1 Students’ temperament styles, parenting styles and academic achievement of school … Rumki Gupta … 8 students. (General, New) 4.2 Differential validity of Computer programming abilities (General, On-going) … Debdulal.Dutta Roy … 27 4.3 Cognitive Processing through PASS model and its role in determining academic … Anjali Ghosh … 30 performance of school students of North- Eastern India. (NE, On-going) 4.4 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 45 5 Sociological Research Unit 5.2 A micro level study of childhood obesity and TV watching in Kolkata and its … Susmita Bharati … 13 periphery, West Bengal, India. (General, New) 5.3 Migration, social network and their impact on the rural households of Jharkhand. … Rabindranath Jana … 16 (General, New) 5.4 Data Gap in Gender Statistics: Women in Mining Industry. (General, On-going) … Molly Chattopadhyay … 34 5.5 Evaluating Official Statistics on Land and Livestock holdings. (General, On-going) … V.K. Ramachandran … 36 5.6 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 47 6 Planning Unit, Delhi Centre 6.1 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 48 7 Economic Analysis Unit, Bangalore Centre 7.1 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 50 8 Social Sciences Division Office 8.1 Non-project plan proposals for the year 2013-14 … … 51 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, ERU … … 52 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, PRU … … 59 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, SRU … … 62 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, LRU … … 66 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, PSU … … 68 List of Publications of DCSW Members: 2007 – 2012, EAU, Bangalore Centre … … 70 Interim Report PRU … … 71 Divisional Projects Expenditure Statement 2013-14 … … 75 Divisional Non-Project Expenditure Statement 2013-14 … … 76 Plan Budget Proposals 2013-14, SSD 3 Members of the Technical Advisory Committee Social Sciences Division for the year 2010-2012 1. Professor Bimal Kr. Roy Director (Chairman) Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata 700 108 2. Professor Jayati Ghosh Centre for Economics Studies & Planning Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 110 067 3. Professor Rajni Palriwala Department of Sociology Delhi School of Economics Delhi University Delhi 110 007 4. Professor Sulabha Parasuraman Department of Population Policies & Programmes I.I.P.S., Deonar, Mumbai 400088 5. Professor Ayesha Kidwai Centre for Linguistic Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 110 067 6. Professor Minati Panda Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 110 067 7. Professor Madhura Swaminathan, Professor-in-Charge (Convener), Social Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700 108 New Projects Plan Budget Proposals 2013-14, SSD 5 LRU (General, New) Project No. 2.2 1. Title of the project: Biaxial Study of Bangla Lexicosyntax. 2. Brief objective and justification (2 or 3 sentences): The purpose of this project is to apply the biaxial apparatus to the problem of delineating cranberry-compatible environments in Bangla. Current work suggests that an idiom containing a bound word cannot cross a predicate boundary; we need to sharpen our knowledge of predicate boundaries. The results of this project are not only of computational and psycholinguistic interest but also overlap with the socio-cultural study of common sense as it is encoded in idiomatic structures. 3. Date of Commencement: April 2013- March 2016 4. Name of the Proposing Scientist/Principal Investigator: Probal Dasgupta, LRU, ISI 5. Name of other associated Scientists with their affiliation: Niladri Sk. Dash (LRU, ISI) 6. A brief write up on the scope and justification of the project and the proposed work (not more than half a page): The purpose of this project is to apply the biaxial apparatus to the problem of distinguishing cranberry-compatible from cranberry-incompatible syntactic environments in Bangla. Current work by the P.I. suggests that an idiom containing a bound word (usually called a cranberry word) cannot cross a predicate boundary; we need to sharpen our knowledge of predicate boundaries. In particular, the older proposals that the subject-predicate boundary within the body of the clause is the relevant line of demarcation are incompatible with data highlighted by Manaster-Ramer and Wasow; the P.I. is exploring the possibility that the topic-comment boundary is the maximal outer boundary but that prototypical idioms are confined to the narrow verb phrase. The results of this project are not only of computational and psycholinguistic interest but also overlap with the socio-cultural study of common sense as it is encoded in the metaphoric structure of idiomatic expressions. Idiom descriptions underwritten by the biaxial approach have begun to, and are expected to continue to, illuminate the complex predicate domain of South Asian lexical systems that need to be better understood for computational purposes. The contrastive study of ethnic languages vis-a-vis the idiom-free and opacity-minimizing Archimedean language Esperanto has yielded results reported in the P.I.’s (2011) book Inhabiting Human Languages cited below; these results will underpin the proposed study. 7. Item wise breakup of the budget proposed (Capital & Revenue) and justification for the same (not more than 1/4 page): Items Heads 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 Total Capital NIL NIL NIL NIL Revenue Salary of 1 Project Assistant 2,40,000 2,40,000 2,40,000 7,20,000 (20,000 X 36 = 7,20,000) Stores and stationeries 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000 Computer consumables 15,000 15,000 20,000 50,000 Maintenance 10,000 10,000 10,000 30,000 Total: 2,80,000 2,80,000 2,90,000 8,50,000 8. Brief particulars of Assets, proposed to be acquired from Capital Budget, should be mentioned. In case of replacement, particulars of the asset to be condemned (e.g., Year of Purchase, Cost): Computer, photocopier, and antivirus software are to be procured. Social Sciences Division, ISI 6 9. List of all ongoing projects undertaken by the Proposing Scientist in the last 5 years and for each, give (i) Status (ii) Money budgeted, (iii) Money spent, (iv) Publications: No. of on-going projects : 1 (One) Project No 6 : (Ongoing, Northeastern) Title : Interlexical study of Asamiya in a substantivist framework Status : On-going Money budgeted in 2012-2013: Rs. 2.20,000/- Publications: Dasgupta, P. The ubiquitous complementizer. In: Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages. Ed. By Josef Bayer, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, M.T. Hany Babu. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. 2007. 163-173. Dasgupta, P. Concrete knowledge, the conversational turn, and translation. AI & Society 2007. 21:1-2.7-13. Dasgupta, P. Advances in substantivist grammatical research. In Research Trends in Lexicography, Sanskrit and Linguistics: Proceedings of the Professor S.M. Katre Birth Centenary Seminar. Ed. By K.S. Nagaraja, V.P. Bhatta, Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi, P.M. Pingle. Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune. 151-181. 2007. Dasgupta, P. Names, writing and perspective. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 5. 2008. Pp 126-34. Dasgupta, P. Transparency and arbitrariness in natural language: some empirical issues. Rajendra Singh (ed.) ARSALL 2008. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 3-19. Dasgupta, P. Bangla vector verbs and their selectivities. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics [U. of Kashmir, Srinagar] 2. 2009. Pp 41-68. Dasgupta, P. After temples and templates: history’s claims on the translator. Ipshita Chanda, Chandra Mohan, Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta (eds.) Travelling in Cultures: Comparative Studies, Theory and Practice. Delhi: Worldview. 2009. 25-36. Dasgupta, P. Characterizations in linguistic science. Amiya Dev (ed.) Science, Literature and Aesthetics (History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization Volume XV Part 3). Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilization. 2009. 149-65. Dasgupta, P. (with Madhavi Sardesai). Sociolinguistics in South Asia. Martin J. Ball (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World. London/ New York: Routledge. 2009 81-8. Dasgupta, P. Strategies and their shadows. Rajendra Singh (ed.) ARSALL 2009. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2010. 3-40. Dasgupta, P. (with Josef Bayer.) 2010. Prosnobaakke nibedon-badol aar kriyaapader saakaankho otit cehaaraa. Alochonachakro 28:9-25. Dasgupta, P. 2010. Baakke bibhoktir bandobosto. Alochonachakro 29:39-58. Dasgupta, P. 2010. Discourse and generative grammar: a substantivist approach. Rajat Mohanty, Mythili Menon (eds.) Universals and Variation: Proceedings of GLOW in Asia VII 2009. Hyderabad: EFL University Press. 21-61. Dasgupta, P. 2010. Scarlet and green: phi-inert Indo-Aryan nominal in a co- representation analysis. K. Srikumar (ed.) Papers for Presentation at the 32nd All-India Conference of Linguists. Lucknow: Linguistic Society of India and University of Lucknow. 1-5. Dasgupta, P. 2010. La internacia lingvo kaj la universala gramatiko. [Introduction to Noam Chomsky. 2010. Lingvo kaj Menso. Tr. Edmund Grimley Evans. Rotterdam: Universala Esperanto-Asocio.] vii-x. Dasgupta, P. 2010. The Hindi long vowel problem: a substantivist approach.