Probal Dasgupta
Probal Dasgupta (born 19 September 1953, Kolkata, India) is the current (2010–2013) president of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio (World Esperanto Association).[1]
Dasgupta obtained his PhD from New York University (1980; thesis title: Questions and Relative and Complement Clauses in a Bangla Grammar) and became professor for applied linguistics at University of Hyderabad in 1989.
Since 2004 he is an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America.
Works (selection)
- Degree words in Esperanto and categories in universal grammar. In: Klaus Schubert: Interlinguistics: aspects of the science of planned languages, 1989 pp. 231–247
- Towards a dialogue between the sociolinguistic sciences and Esperanto culture. Pune 1987
- The otherness of English: India's auntie tongue syndrome: New Delhi. Thousand Oaks / London: Sage 1993.
- Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics, Rajendra Singh, Probal Dasgupta, Jayant K. Lele. New Delhi: Sage 1995.
- After Etymology, 2000
- Dasgupta, Probal (2011). Logxi en homaj lingvoj: la substancisma perspektivo. New York: Mondial. ISBN 978-1595692146.
- Dasgupta, Probal (2012). Inhabiting Human Languages: the Substantivist Visualization. New Delhi: Samskriti and Indian Council of Philosophical Research. pp. xviii + 148. ISBN 978-81-87374-70-1.
Translations from Bengali
- Manashi DasGupta: Dormanta hejmaro, Antwerp: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo 2006
- Manashi DasGupta: Mi juna, Rotterdam: Esperantaj Kajeroj 1989
- Rabindranath Tagore: Primico, København: TK 1977
- Upendronath Gangopaddhae: Klera edzino, Pisa: Edistudio 1994
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Dasgupta, Probal |
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Current president of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio |
| Date of birth |
19 September 1953 |
| Place of birth |
Kolkata, India |
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