Presentations
2024
Agreement with plurals-of-politeness: feature-typing or height? (with Yash Sinha). CGG 33, University of Alcala.
Gender asymmetry as a window into the mechanism of mixed concord (with Yash Sinha). WCCFL 42, University of Berkeley.
A novel account of mixed concord: the view from Punjabi honorifics (with Yash Sinha). FASAL 14, Stony Brook University.
The syntax of plurals-of-politeness: lessons from gender-number interaction (with Yash Sinha). The 2nd Workshop on Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes, University of Goettingen.
2023
[Invited] Locating honorificity in syntax: an investigation of ‘Polite Plurals'. Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics (BCGL 16), CRISSP.
On Asp* in Hindi-Urdu (with Julie Goncharov). Workshop on verbal domains, Newcastle university.
Two phi-feature sets on honorific nouns. WCCFL 41, UC Santa Cruz.
The morphosyntax of honorific nouns in Punjabi with a focus on the masculine-feminine asymmetry. CGG 32, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.
[Invited] The morphosyntax of honorific nouns: the view from Punjabi. Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes (CHAMP), University College London
The source of plural agreement with honorific nouns. Oberseminar English Linguistics, University of Goettingen.
2022
Aspect in Hindi-Urdu and transition between syntactic domains (with Julie Goncharov and Neil Banerjee). GLOW in Asia XIII, The Chinese University of Hong Cong.
Aspect in Hindi-Urdu and the indeterminacy of the future (with Julie Goncharov). Oberseminar English Linguistics, University of Goettingen.
Polarity, homogeneity, and authority (with Julie Goncharov and Neil Banerjee). CLS 58, University of Chicago.
2021
Allocutivity and the composition of the C-T. 12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, Oslo University. [postponed from June 2020] | Handout
Variation in honorificity (with Akitaka Yamada). WCCFL 39, University of Arizona.
Mismatches in honorificity across allocutive languages (with Akitaka Yamada). LSA 2021 virtual annual meeting: Symposium on 'The features of allocutivity, honorifics and social relations'.
2020
Negative (in)effability in Bangla imperatives (with Neil Banerjee). Oberseminar English Linguistics, University of Goettingen | Handout
Deferred imperatives across Indo-Aryan (with Neil Banerjee). (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages (F)ASAL 10, The Ohio State University.
2019
A unified licensing based approach to DSM and DOM: Evidence from subject-object person effects. NELS 50, MIT.
Not all imperatives have a Jussive head: Emphasizing the role of allocutivity in syntax. Workshop on Person and Perspective, USC.
Embedded allocutivity and its reference (with Akitaka Yamada). Workshop on Person and Perspective, USC.
[Invited] Addressee in imperatives: Locus and interpretation. Workshop on Dependency in Syntactic Covariance (DISCO) at the University of Leipzig.
[Invited] Not all imperatives have a Jussive head- Insights from allocutive imperatives. Com(parative) Syn(tax) meeting at the Leiden University Center for Linguistics.
2018
3rd person needs licensing too: Examining the se/-suu connection (with Louise Raynaud) at SinFonIJA 11, Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
Addressee Agreement as the Locus of Imperative Syntax at NELS 49, Cornell University.
Revisiting Person Licensing: the view from 3rd person clitics in Punjabi and French (with Louise Raynaud) at LinG1: Workshop on Agreement and Anaphoricity, University of Goettingen
The Declarative-Imperative Switch in an Allocutive Language at Workshop on Non Canonical Imperatives (NCI), Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin.
Distinct flavors of the Jussive head: Examining Punjabi Imperatives at Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL 8), Wichita State University, Kansas, USA.
Braj in the Ergativity Hierarchy (with Pritha Chandra) at Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL 8), Wichita State University, Kansas, USA.
Macro Differences in Dialects (with Pritha Chandra) at Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 42).
2017
On Some Passive Strategies in Natural Language (with Pritha Chandra and Anindita Sahoo) at the 39th International Conference of the Linguistic Society in India (ICOLSI-39), IIT Patna.
On Braj Ergativity: Person through the ages (with Pritha Chandra) at the 19th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS 19), Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Variation in Blocking Effects: Investigating 2nd and 3rd person Clitics in Punjabi at Glow in Asia XI, National University of Singapore.
2016
Clitic licensing and blocking: The case of -suu in Punjabi at Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL6), UMass Amherst.
The perfect Nominative (with Pritha Chandra) at Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL6), UMass Amherst.
2014
A Phase-based Account of Punjabi Differential Subject Marking (with Pritha Chandra) at GLOW in Asia X, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
Two nominative cases in Punjabi? (with Pritha Chandra) at Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 4, Rutgers University, USA.