Ashwini Deo
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Ashwini Deo is a linguist who specializes in semantics, pragmatics, and language variation and change, with an empirical focus on the Indo-Aryan languages. She is currently Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.[1]
In 1999, Deo obtained master's degrees in Sanskrit Grammar from Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth and in Linguistics from Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute.[2] Both institutions are located in Pune, India. Deo received her Ph.D. degree in linguistics from Stanford University in 2006 with a dissertation entitled Tense and Aspect in Indo-Aryan Languages: Variation and Diachrony.[3]
Deo has held faculty positions in different U.S. universities. She was Assistant Professor (2007–2013) and associate professor of linguistics (2013–2016) at Yale University. She continued her career as Associate Professor (2016–2021) and Professor of Linguistics (2021–2022) at the Ohio State University. Since 2022, Deo has been in her current position at the University of Texas at Austin while also holding an adjunct professor position at Ohio State University.[4]
Deo has been editor of the Historical Section of Language and Linguistics Compass (2008–2014) and Associate Editor of Linguistics and Philosophy (2019–2021) and Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (2019–2022).[2][5] Deo has also served as a member of the editorial board of Transactions of the Philological Society, Semantics and Pragmatics, and the Journal of South Asian Linguistics.[6][7][8]