Padma Shri Rashtriya Lok Bhasha Sammaan All India Institute of Advanced Study Fellowship Gold Medal - Delhi University SOAS Leverhume Professor Max Planck Institute Visiting Scientist/> Kenneth Hale Award - Linguistic Society of America (2015)
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ഇന്ത്യക്കാരിയായ ഒരു ഭാഷാശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞയും തെക്കേ എഷ്യയിലെ ന്യൂനസംഖ്യാഭാഷാകളെപ്പറ്റിയുള്ള പരിജ്ഞാനത്തിൽ വിദഗ്ദ്ധയുമാണ് പ്രൊഫസർ അൻവിത അബ്ബി (Professor Anvita Abbi). (ജനനം 9 ജനുവരി 1949).[1] 2013 - ൽ ഇവർക്ക് പദ്മശ്രീ പുരസ്കാരം ലഭിച്ചു.[2]
വഹിച്ച സ്ഥാനങ്ങൾ
നിരവധി പ്രമുഖസ്ഥാങ്ങൾ അലങ്കരിച്ചിട്ടുള്ളവരാണ് അൻവിത. അവയിൽ ചിലത്:
Director, Center of Oral and Tribal Literature Sahtiya Akademi,New Delhi India.
Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and the President of the Linguistic society of India. [3] She has served as an advisor to institutions such as UNESCO (since 2002) and Sahitya Akademi. She is also a life member of the Linguistic Society of India at their Dravidian Linguistics Association wing and has also sat on the editorial board of two journals, Indian Linguistics (1991–95) and the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics[4] (1992–96).[5][6][3]
Anvita Abbi, an honorary life member of the Linguistic Society of America[8] and the Dravidian Linguistics Association,[5][6][3] sits on the Advisory Board of Terralingua and the UNESCO.[8][9] She has also served as a Director Board member of Terralingua during 1998-2008.[8]
പ്രഭാഷണങ്ങൾ
Anvita Abbi has presented papers and delivered keynote addresses at various platforms and at many institutions of repute.[5][6][9] A random selection of her lectures are:
Venue
Date
Topic
Country
Cairns Institute, James Cook University
8 November 2010
The endangered languages of the Andaman Islands: Reconstructing the knowledge-base of the Pre Neolithic tribes of India[5][6][9]
Australia
Cairns Institute, James Cook University
11 January 2011
Semantics of inalienability and grammaticalization of body part terms in Great Andamanese[5][6][9]
Australia
Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology
18 September 2010
In search of language contact between Jarawa and Aka-Bea: the languages of South Andaman[5][6][9]
Anvita Abbi is credited with 19 books, authored, coauthored and edited.[5][6][10][11][12] Her writings cover the typology, structures and ethno linguistic aspects of languages and their documentation.[9] Her work spanned the entire Indian subcontinent[13] and the most known among her works is her project, Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese.[5][6][10][14]
Semantic Grammar of Hindi. A Study of Reduplication[25]
A Dictionary of the Great Andamanese Language: English-Great Andamanese-Hindi[26]
A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language. An Ethnolinguistic Study. 2013. Brill Publications. Leiden. ISBN978-90-04-23527-4 (hardback); 978-90-04-24612-6
Unwritten Languages of India (edited) 2017. Sahitya Akademi Publications, Delhi. ISBN978-81-260-5266-0
Her Hindi short story anthology, Mutthhi Bhar Pahcaan, was published in 1969.[27]
Mutthhi Bhar Pahcaan (A Handful of Recognition). A collection of short stories 1969. Radhakrishan Prakashan, Delhi.
Anvita Abbi has also published over 80 articles in national and international peer reviewed journals.[5][6][10] Some of her notable articles are:
Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese (VOGA)[14]
Universal Grammar, Language Evolution, and Documenting an Ancient Language. Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory[28]
Is Great Andamanese genealogically and typologically distinct from Onge and Jarawa?[29]
അവാർഡുകളും പുരസ്കാരങ്ങളും
Anvita Abbi has been honoured by several institutions and establishments.[9][30] She has held the position of the Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany for three years, 200, 2003 and 2010.[8][9] She was a Leverhume Professor at the SOAS, University of London in 2011[8] and a fellow of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cornell University, New York, USA in 1990 and a visiting fellow of the La Trobe University, Melbourne in 2003.[5][6][8][9][30] Abbi was a visiting professor at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia during 2010-2011.[8][9] Some of the other honours she has received are: