She is a linguist, who has been invested in studying the languages spoken in India. She earned her PhD in Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 2018. Recently in October 2024, she completed carrying out a DST CSRI Postdoctoral grant, which was hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
She primarily works on Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. In her research, she has been focused on exploring quantifier scope related phenomena, both theoretically and experimentally. Her interest in scope phenomena, especially how they are manifested in the Indic languages, started while working on the pragmatics of the additive particle in Bangla. She studied the semantics of the adnominal and the adverbial distributive numerals in Bangla in her thesis. The chief theoretical proposals of the work can be found in the Sinn und Bedeutung proceedings paper. She has collaboratively explored the interaction between quantifier scope, word order and the scope preference of determiners, using behavioural psycholinguistic methods, under her DST grant. Additionally, she is interested in theoretically couched typological studies on Indian languages. Her work on the typology of conditionals would be an example of that. Most of her work can be accessed on her webpage.
Personal webpage: https://ishaniguha.wordpress.com/
Amity Institute of English Studies And Research (AIESR)