Unpublished work - Sinhala

Abesooriya, L & K. Perera. (2018). The Use of Directives by Children and Adults in a Sinhala-Speaking Household. Sinhala Studies Symposium 2018 (SSS2018), University of Colombo.

Cain, B. & Gair, J. W. (1995). Sinhala and Dhivehi comparative syntax: some questions about questions. South Asia Linguistics Association XVII [Conference]

de Abrew, K. (1981). The syntax and semantics of negation in Sinhala. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Cornell University.

De Silva, H. (2002). Ages and stages of the acquisition of case-markers in Sinhala. (Unpublished M.Sc. thesis). University College London.

Englebretson,R. and Genetti, C. (Eds.). (2005). Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics June3-4, 2005. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.

Fedricks, K. G. K. (2012). Directives in Sinhala: An investigation of directive use in a Buddhist temple setting (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach.

Garland, J. (2005). Morphological typology and the complexity of nominal morphology in Sinhala. In R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (Eds.), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics June 3-4, 2005. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.

Hagstrom, P. (1998). Decomposing Questions. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Henadeerage, D. K. (2002). Topics in Sinhala Syntax. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Australian National University.

Henderson, M. (2005). Between lexical and lexico-grammatical classification: Nominal classification in Sinhala. In R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (Eds.), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics June 3-4, 2005. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.

Hettiarachchi, S. & Ranaweera, M. (2011). ‘t’ before ‘th’ or ‘th’ before ‘t’: Assessing the trajectory of Sinhala speech sound and phonological development. Faculty of Graduate Studies Symposium - University of Kelaniya. Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. 3-4 November 2011. Abstract.

Hilpert, M. (2005). The lexical category auxiliary in Sinhala. In R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (Eds.), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics June 3-4, 2005. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.

Inman, M.V. (1994). Semantics and pragmatics of colloquial Sinhala involitive verbs. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Stanford University.

Jany, C. (2005). The relationship between case marking and S, A, and O in Spoken Sinhala. In R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (Eds.), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics June 3-4, 2005. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.

Kahr, J.C. (1989). Discourse functions of the Sinhala passive. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Harvard University.

Letterman, R. (1997). The Effects of Word-Internal Prosody in Sinhala: A Constraint-Based Analysis. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Cornell University.

Lin, Y-J. (2005). The transformation of the vertical axis to horizontal: A case study from Sinhala. In R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (Eds.), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics June 3-4, 2005. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.

Mathieu-Reeves, D. (2005). Direct and indirect causation in Sinhala: Examining the complexity continuum. In R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (Eds.), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics June 3-4, 2005. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.

Mendis, D. (1994). Second person personal pronouns and the expression of politeness in spoken Sinhalese. (Unpublished MA thesis), Ohio University.

Morales, S. G. (2005). Morphosyntactic expressions of possession, and existence in Sinhala. In R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (Eds.), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics June 3-4, 2005. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.

Nash, C. M. (2005). A phonetic and phonological approach to stress in Sinhala verbs. In R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (Eds.), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics June 3-4, 2005. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.

Paolillo, J. C. (1992). Functional Articulation in Diglossia: a Case Study of Grammatical and Social Correspondences in Sinhala. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Stanford University. Preview.

Paolillo, J. C. (1994). Finding the "two" in diglossia. UTA Working Papers in Linguistics 1.15-31.

Perera, K. (2016, August). Ithin e:kiyanne: An investigation into Sinhala discourse markers. Second International Conference on Linguistics (ICLSL), University of Kelaniya.

Perera, K. (2017, November). Stance-taking in Sinhala discourse. Third International Conference on Linguistics (ICLSL), University of Kelaniya. Abstract.

Perera, K. (2018, October). The use of questions in mediated political debates in Sinhala. Sinhala Studies Symposium 2018 (SSS2018), University of Colombo. Abstract.

Perera, K. (2019, March). Sinhala question tags mokədə and hari as discourse markers. Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP 2019). University of Moratuwa.

Perera, K. (2019, September 16). Researching Sinhala: Current Status and Future Directions. International Workshop on Language and Lanaguages in Modern Sri Lanka. University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Perera, K. & Strauss, S. (2014). DMs in Sinhala: me ‘this’ and dæn ‘now’ as high-focus and time-immediate indexicals. Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics. Washington, D.C.March 13-16, 2014 Abstract.

Premawardhena, N. C. (2003, November 28-30). Impact of English loan words on Modern Sinhala. 9th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies. Matara, Sri Lanka.

Silva, C. H. de & Premawardhena, N. C. (2003, November 28-30). Some computational aspects of natural language understanding: A case study on Spoken Sinhala. 9th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies. Matara, Sri Lanka.

Slade, B. M. (2011). Formal and philological inquiries into the nature of interrogatives, indefinites, disjunction, and focus in Sinhala and other languages (Unpublished doctoral dissertation), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Sultan, V. (2005). Information packaging in Sinhala: A preliminary study of adverbial clauses in focus constructions. In R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (Eds.), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics June 3-4, 2005. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.

Taylor, C. (2005, June 3-4). Perfect, sequence, recapitulation: Common construal and the Sinhala conjunctive participle. In R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (Eds.), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.

Walker, B. R. (2005, June 3-4). Relative clauses in Sinhala. In R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (Eds.), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.

Wheeler, B. (2005). Complementation in colloquial Sinhala: Observations on the binding hierarchy. In R. Englebretson and C. Genetti (Eds.), Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics June 3-4, 2005. Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, 17. Santa Barbara, CA: UCSB.