Prof. Harjeet Singh Gill
Professor Emeritus
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi-67

Experience:

1935
1964-1968	Attaché de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
1968-1984	Professor of Linguistics, Punjabi University, Patiala
1984-2000	Professor of Linguistics, JNU
1986, 88, 90, 92…	Visiting Professor of Semiotics, Maison des Science de l'Homme, Paris
1998	Visiting Professor, Collège de France
2000---	Professor Emeritus, JNU
2000-2003	Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
2006-2011	Editor-in-Chief, Punjabi Kosh, Punjabi University, Patiala
2012---	Professor of Eminence, Punjabi University, Patiala

Books

Select Publications

1962	A Reference Grammar of Punjabi
1973	Linguistic Atlas of the Punjab
1975	Folk Art of the Punjab – an essay on the art and philosophy of courage, voluptuous celebration and demythologising incision
1989	Structures of Narrative in East and West Abelardian Semiotics and other essays
1990, 1992, 1994	Structures of Signification – in three volumes, edited papers on linguistic and literary interpretations for the Journal of the School of Languages.
1992	Ideas, Words and Things, French writings in Semiology, edited with Professor Bernard Pottier of the Sorbonne.
1996	The Semiotcs of Conceptual Structures – The Abelardian Discourse, The Cartesian Discourse, The Narrative Discourse, The Interpretative Discourse
1999	Signs and Signification – edited proceedings of the seminars on The Theories of Signification since the Middle Ages held at the Maison des sciences de l'Homme, Paris, and at JNU.
2001	Signication in Buddhist and French traditions – a revised version of the lectures delivered at the Collège de France in 1998.
2003	BabaNanak— a biography of Baba Nanak in free verse
2007	Nanak Bani -- in two volumes, interpreted in free verse Sufi Rhythms – a selection of the compositions of Baba Farid, Shah Hussain, Bulleh Shah, Sultan Bahu and Laeeq Babree interpreted in free verse.