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Ashwini Deo is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Indo-Aryan languages and historical linguistics. With a PhD from Stanford University in 2006, she has a profound interest in systematic semantic change phenomena, particularly focusing on how functional morphemes such as tense-aspect, negation, and possession markers alter meaning over time. Her research encompasses synchronic phenomena in domains like aspect, temporal reference, lexical semantics for verbs, and discourse particles. Dr. Deo also explores agreement patterns, especially in split-ergative and split-oblique systems, with an empirical focus on Indo-Aryan languages that provide a diachronic linguistic record spanning over 3000 years. She teaches various courses in semantics and linguistics, contributing significantly to the academic community through her extensive knowledge and research.
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