Syntactico- semantic subject (karta) in Bangla Pragati Dhang α , Sanjay Chatterji α , Tanaya Mukherjee Sarkar α , Sudeshna Sarkar α , , Jayashree Chakraborty β Anupam Basu α α Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur β Department of Humanities And Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Abstract Identification of subject (karta) in the Indian languages has been a difficult task. This is mainly because of the varied use of bibhakti markers, there being no one to one correlation between the semantics of a marker and the corresponding context in which it is used. The present paper identifies karta in Bangla sentences based on modern Bangla grammar. When the task is assigned to a computer through the dependency structure of sentences, it prefers syntactic dependencies. Other than karan and apadan, all the karakas take same case markers or suffixes or bibhakti markers. The concentration is in the identification of karta based on logical and syntactic (syntactico-semantic) point of views. Keywords : Syntactico-semantic relation, Modern Bangla grammar and language 1. Introduction In Bangla, subject (karta) is one of five karaks. The subject (karta) of a Bangla sentence is a noun phrase which indicates a person or a thing that performs an action, experiences something, undergoes an action or exists somewhere. Karta takes the different bibhakti markers