Prakash Mondal, PhD, FRSA (London)


Office Address: Room No. C-426, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Email: prakashmondal(AT)iith.ac.in
 

Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Department of Liberal Arts
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Kandi, Sangareddy
Telangana 502284

Office Phone: +(91) 040-2301-6510 (I would prefer an email at the moment)

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Professional Service:

Editorial Advisory Panel, HSS Communications, a Nature journal


I'm interested in how language relates to cognition in the broadest sense and how it links to problems of meaning, computation, and biology. In general, my papers and books (published or forthcoming) are at the cross-section of language, cognition and computation. Some of them are available below:

Selected Publications:

Books:

1. Language, Mind and Computation. London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan.


2. Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature. Leiden/Boston: Brill.




3. Language, Biology, and Cognition: A Critical Perspective. Berlin/New York: Springer Nature.


4. Language and Cognitive Structures of Emotion. London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan.


5. The Cognitive Variation of Semantic Structures. London/New Delhi: Routledge (to appear in MARCH 2024).



6. Handbook of Linguistic Semantics: Bridging Theory, Philosophy and Cognition (Edited Volume). Under Contract with Springer Nature.



Papers:

1. How Limited is the Limit?

2. Exploring the N-th Dimension of Language

3. Toward a Unified Computational Model of Quantificational Scope Readings

4. Can Internalism and Externalism be Reconciled in a Biological Epistemology of Language?

5. Logical Form vs Logical Form: How does the Difference Matter for Semantic Computationality?

6. How Language Processing Constrains (Computational) Natural Language Processing: A Cognitive Perspective

7. Does (Linguistic) Computation Need Culture to Make Cognition Viable?

8. How the Intentionality of Emotion can be Traced to the Intensionality of Emotive Expressions: Intensionality in Emotive Predicates.

9. On the Computational Character of Semantic Structures.

10. Does Computation Reveal Machine Cognition?

11. How Does the Faculty of Language Relate to Rules, Axioms and Constraints?

12. Grammar is NOT a Computer of the Human Mind/Brain

13. Lexicon, Meaning Relations, and Semantic Networks

14. How Linguistic Meaning Harmonizes with Information through Meaning Conservation

15. Mental Structures as Biosemiotic Constraints on the Functions of Non-human (Neuro)cognitive Systems

16. Computational Complexity of Intensional Emotive Constructions, (In)tractability, and Natural Language Processing.

17. Disunity with Unity in Cognition within the Context of Language-Biology Relations.

18. Meaning Relations, Syntax, and Understanding.

19. The Mental Representation of Sounds in Speech Sound Disorders. [Co-authored with P Soujanya]

20. The Limits of Language-Thought Influences can be Set by the Constraints of Embodiment.

21. The Constraints of Embodiment and Language-Thought Relations.

22. Predicate Concepts and their Normal Form.

23. A Unifying Perspective on Perception and Cognition Through Linguistic Representations of Emotion.

24. The Puzzling Chasm Between Cognitive Representations and Formal Structures of Linguistic Meanings.


25. Towards a Unified Representation of Linguistic Meaning.

26. A Critical Perspective on the (Neuro)biological Foundations of Language and Linguistic Cognition.


27. Towards a Unifying Theory of Linguistic Meaning.

28. The Representation of Discontinuity and the Correspondence Principle.


29. On the Implementation of the Algorithm for Representation of Discontinuity in Natural Language.


30. On the Unified Representation of Continuity and Discontinuity and its Neuro-Cognitive Grounding