The research proposes that to accurately capture this surprise, the traditional Table model needs enrichment.
The particle lo is used to indicate that the utterance is surprising, unexpected, or newly acquired information.
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Through her academic collaborations, particularly with Ahmad Jabbar, Kanamarlapudi has contributed to the understanding of how language users convey surprise, manage information flow, and reach consensus in spoken interaction. Core Areas of Research
(Class of 2026), Kanamarlapudi has established a presence in the academic community through specialized research in linguistics while simultaneously pursuing opportunities in the global financial sector. Academic Contributions in Linguistics Kanamarlapudi's research focuses on the intersection of semantics and pragmatics The research proposes that to accurately capture this
: A research paper focused on the discourse particle "lo" and how it marks surprise or discovery in the Hindi-Urdu language.
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Using the Hindi-Urdu discourse particle ’lo’ as a case study, the present paper models mirativity within the Table model framework. This comes with an enrichment of the Table model: we propose the discourse structure to encode, in addition to discourse commitments, the time these commitments are publicized. We also incorporate a component that contains the public record of private beliefs.
co-authored with Ahmad Jabbar. The research investigates "mirativity"—a linguistic category used to mark information that is new or surprising to the speaker—within Hindi-Urdu. Key themes of her research include: Discourse Phenomena
: In collaboration with Ahmad Jabbar, she authored a forthcoming paper for the Proceedings of FASAL 15 titled "Using the Hindi-Urdu discourse particle 'lo' as a case study." The research models mirativity (the linguistic marking of surprise) within the Table model framework, proposing enhancements to discourse structure to account for the timing of public commitments and private beliefs.