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445. Ayesha Kidwai



The Infosys Prize Winner 2013 in Humanities – Linguistics

Professor
M.A., Ph.D.
Research Interest:
Generative Syntax & Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Morphology
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Dr. Ayesha Kidwai's (Professor) research interests include linguistic theory, with particular reference to the (generative) syntax and morphology of Indian languages, philosophy of language, gender and language, the politics of English, and language evolution. After completing her PhD in 1995 from Jawaharlal Nehru University on scrambling and binding in Hindi-Urdu, she has worked on diverse morphological and syntactic phenomena in languages of all the four-language family of India, as well as Indian Sign Language. Her current research interests include the syntax of finite complementation and the properties of adjunction in natural language. Under her supervision, students of the Centre have worked on descriptive grammars of lesser-known languages, explored aspects of the syntax and semantics of the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian language families, and investigated the interaction of gender with linguistic behavior.

Prof. Ayesha Kidwai completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research interests include linguistic theory, with particular reference to the (generative) syntax and morphology of Indian languages, philosophy of language, gender and language, the politics of English, and the evolution of language. Her current research interests include the syntax of finite complementation and the properties of adjunction in natural language.
She has authored several papers and a few notable books such as XP-adjunction in Universal Grammar: Scrambling and Binding in Hindi-Urdu, and In Freedom's Shade, an English translation of Anis Kidwai's Urdu memoir Azaadi Ki Chaon Mein.
Prof. Kidwai's research ranges around a wide variety of syntactic topics, united by a preoccupation with the properties and effects of optional displacement operations in Universal Grammar.
Universal Grammar is the radical hypothesis, put forth five decades ago by Noam Chomsky, that the innate human linguistic ability is a domain-specific intelligence that must be modeled as a distinct Faculty of Language. This innate endowment, a system of principles and parametric options, forms the basis for the human knowledge and acquisition of any natural language, and is the source for both the relatedness of and differences between human languages. Prof. Kidwai's contributions to the field have been the study of the principles and parameters that must be hypothesized to explain the syntactic properties of a number of South Asian languages, including Hindi-Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam, Meiteilon and Santali.
The phenomenon of free word order found in many languages of the world – ‘scrambling’– raises many intriguing questions for Universal Grammar, as such word order variation is apparently optional, and therefore difficult to characterize by grammatical rules. Prof. Kidwai's work in this intensively studied and debated domain proposes a novel theory of how the referential properties of scrambled noun phrases in Hindi-Urdu may be characterized once the discourse effects of these optional variations are taken into account. These proposals have had important implications for the hypothesized design of Universal Grammar as well as the displacement operations conjectured to be central to it.
Recently, Prof. Kidwai also distinguished herself as an ace translator, having rendered Anis Kidwai's moving Urdu memoir of the aftermath of partition, Azaadi Ki Chaon Mein, into English, In Freedom's Shade.

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444. Khurshid Najmi























Partner

India Law Services



Legal Adviser, IFCI Ltd.

India Law Services

Was advising IFCI Ltd and its subsidiaries in matters involving law. Was responsible for the Litigation management.


Joint Legal Adviser

Reserve Bank of India

Education


Mumbai University

LLM in Commercial Law, Geography, Law

Presently working as Legal adviser for PPP Projects and other large Projects


Mr. K.A Najmi did LL.B from Patna University and LL.M (Commercial Law) from Bombay University. Was a Government Counsel for the State of Delhi for Civil side, in Delhi High Court. Worked with Oriental Insurance Company Ltd as A.A.O., with Reserve Bank of India (1979-2000), with IFCI Ltd., as Chief General Manager, Law (2000-2004).
Joined Foxmandal Little, a Law Firm, as a Partner (June 2004 to June 2009) and worked on a World Bank Project for drafting the Banking and Finance related laws for the Government of Bangladesh. Presently a Partner of Iindia Law Sevices, a Project Finance Specialist Law Firm and deals, inter alia, in preparation of financing / security documents and legal due diligence relating to power, road, hotels, cements and other sectors and advising clients on Corporate Law and FEMA related issues. He has prepared documents for Gama Infra Pro a Gas based power project at Kashipur in Uttarakhand besides handling various other projects like Kurukshetra Expressway Pvt. Ltd. for Rohtak Bawal Section, NavaYuga Devanahalli Tollway Pvt. Ltd. Chennai Elevated Tollway Limited and also Krishnapatanam Port Company Ltd., a Port Project, all on PPP basis.

Specialties:Legal aspects of PPP and other large value Projects, Dealing with FEMA related issues and advising on Shariah Compliant transactions.

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