London, June 10 (PTI): An Indian-origin linguistics expert, whose work on Bengali dialects is widely recognised, will head a new faculty at Oxford University.

Aditi Lahiri, a professor of linguistics at Oxford, will head the new faculty of linguistics, philology, and phonetics to be launched on August 1. Lahiri’s work includes a study of the Bengali dialect of Murshidabad’s Kandi sub-division.