Research

Publications:

Aphasia in South Asian languages (ASAL) project: a protocol of connected speech tasks for investigating cross-linguistic grammatical profiles in aphasia for South Asian languages (With Arpita Bose, Lakshmi Venkatesh, Sayantani Banerjee, Gurujegan Murugesan, Sunila John, Sakshi Upadhyay, Manaswita Dutta, Mythili Menon, Danielle Fahey, Maya Leela, Sobia Qureshi, Avanthi Paplikar, Vineetha Sara Philip, Manpreet Kaur, Qing Zhao, Niladri Sekhar Dash, Ranita Nandi, Vasudharany Varadharajan, Impana Janardhan, Samawiyah Ulde, Apoorva Pauranik & Venkataraja U Aithal). 2025. In Aphasiology.  Print ISSN: 0268-7038 Online ISSN: 1464-5041. [Paper]

Gender Effects on Non-Gendered Pronouns in Hindi and Mandarin Chinese (With Kumiko Fukumura, Shi Zhang and Samar Husain). 2025. In Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. ISSN: 1747-0218 Online ISSN: 1747-0226 [Paper][Code]

Copular Agreement in Hindi-Urdu (With Rajesh Bhatt). 2023. In Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Volume 41(1), Special Collection: The Grammar of Agree(ment) and Reference (Edited by Sandhya Sundaresan & Hedde Zeijlstra), ISSN 2397-1835. [Paper]

Preverbal syntactic complexity leads to local coherence effects (With Samar Husain). 2022. In Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Print ISSN 2327-3798, Online ISSN 2327-3801. [Paper ][Code]

Processing agreement in Hindi: When agreement feeds attraction (With Brian Dillon). 2022. In Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 125, 104322, ISSN 0749-596X. [Paper] [Code] [Paper Alt-link]

Indirect interaction of person and number in Ojibwe (With Ekaterina Vostrikova & Leland Kusmer). 2018. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas [WSCLA] 21 (UBCWPL 46). Eds: Megan Keough et al. pp. 56-72.  Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. [Paper]

Deriving Subject and Anti-subject Orientation (With Ethan Poole). 2016. In: Proceedings of the 6th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL 6). Eds: Menon, Mythili and Syed, Saurov. pp. 62-71. ISSN: 2510-2818. [Paper]

Causatives in Hindi-Urdu: Care for your instruments and subjects. 2016. In: Proceedings of the 5th Formal Approaches to South-Asian Languages (FASAL 5). Eds: Balusu, Rahul and Sundareshan, Sandhya. pp. 109-122. ISSN: 2510-2818. [Paper]

Comparatives in Hindi-Urdu: Puzzling over Zyaadaa (With Gurmeet Kaur & Jyoti Iyer). 2013. LISSIM Working Papers 1(1): 15-28. ISSN: 2347-968X. [Paper]

Pre-prints:

Processing agreement in Hindi: When agreement feeds attraction (With Brian Dillon). December 2020.  [Paper] [Code]

Preverbal syntactic complexity leads to local coherence effects in Hindi (With Samar Husain). December 2020. [Paper] [Code]

To appear:

When Unmarked Case matters: Processing Agreement in Hindi. To appear in the Proceedings of the 7th Formal Approaches to South-Asian Languages (FASAL 7). [Paper]

Scope Parallelism in Hindi-Urdu Sluicing. (With Jyoti Iyer). To appear in the Proceedings of the 7th Formal Approaches to South-Asian Languages (FASAL 7). [Paper]

Dissertations:

Computing Agreement in a Mixed System. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. September 2019. [Download from Scholarworks]

The Grammar of Code-Switching: A Minimalist Perspective. Master of Philosophy Dissertation. Centre for Advanced Studies in Linguistics. University of Delhi, India. August 2013. [Available on request]

Case System in Mirzapuri. M.A. Fieldwork Dissertation. Centre for Advanced Studies in Linguistics, University of Delhi, India. May 2011. [Available on request]

Manuscripts :

Causation in Hindi-Urdu: Care for your Instruments and Agents. [Available on Request]

Complex anaphors in Hindi-Urdu.  [Available on Request]

Case and Agreement in Bagri and Dhundari. [In prep.]

1. Copular Agreement: Features and Gluttony. Puzzles of Agreement: Syntactic, Semantic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives (Online Workshop) organized by University of Bucharest, University of Toronto, UMass Amherst, ZAS Berlin. October 2024. [Conference Website ]

2. Cross-linguistic research: Importance of language typology and implications for aphasia; Micro- and Macro-linguistic Analyses. British Academy International Training Workshop Aphasia in South Asian Languages (ASAL).  Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India & University of Reading, UK. July 2023.

3. Prediction (failures) and local coherence in Hindi. University of Potsdam, Germany. June 2023.

4. Copular Agreement in the languages of (Western) India. (formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 13, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. [Plenary talk]. April 2023. [Conference Website ]

5. Prediction (failures) and local coherence in a head final language. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. April 2023. 

6. The Role of Linguistic Diversity at the Grammar-Parser Interface: The view from Hindi. Refresher Course: ‘Towards Linguistic Diversity’ UGC-HRDC, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. August 2022. 

7. Copular Agreement in Hindi-Urdu: From Agreement to Licensing. Offered as a Mini-Course in the YJHD Lecture Series, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. June/July 2022. [Handout]

8. Discourse particles in the languages of (North) Western India. Language Diversity, Linguistic Theory and Cultural Identity in South Asia Conference, Yale University, USA. April 2022. [Slides] [Conference Website]

9. Cognitive ability in human mind. Sphot (Virtual event celebrating AI-driven evolution in language and voice technology) organized by Saarthi.ai, India. [Fireside Chat Speaker] [Video]

10. Limits on parser adaptability: Local coherence in Hindi. South Asian Forum on the Acquisition & Processing of Language 2, University of Potsdam, Germany. August 2021. [Keynote Talk] [Conference Website]

11. Preverbal Syntactic Complexity & Local Coherence Effects. Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 11, University of Minnesota. March 2021. [Keynote Talk] [Conference Website]

12. Agreement processing in a language with a mixed agreement system: Evidence from Hindi. Psycholinguistics Coffee Talk Series. University of Edinburgh, Scotland. October 2020. 

13. Processing Agreement in Hindi. Zoomdemic. Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. April 2020. [Slides] [Video]

14. Long Distance Agreement in Hindi-Urdu: Let's look at adjectives. Jawahar Lal Nehru University, Delhi, India, October 2019. [Handout]

15. Understanding (the limits of) agreement attraction. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. October 2019.

16. Fronted NPs and Agreement Illusions in Hindi. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. August 2018.

17. Using Instruments to diagnose argument structure. English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. February 2018. [Slides]

18. The Syntax of Code-switching: Looking at Hin(di-En)glish. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. 2013. 

1. Are the core features of agrammatism consistent across languages? (with Arpita Bose and Aphasia in South Asian Languages (ASAL) Consortium). The British Neuropsychology Society (BNS) Spring Meeting, London, UK. April 2025. [Platform presentation]

2. Rescuing gluttonous probes in copular agreement via pervasive impoverishment (with Yash Sinha and Athulya Aravind). 15th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) Conference, University of Texas, Austin, USA. April 2025. [Poster]

3. Acquisition of Causatives in Hindi-Urdu (with Parul Bhardwaj). South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language 5. Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. December 2024. [Poster]

4. Hindi-Urdu Causative Event Structure Acquisition (with Parul Bhardwaj). Annual Conference of Cognitive Science 11, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. December 2024. [Poster]

5. Rescuing gluttonous probes via pervasive impoverishment (with Yash Sinha & Athulya Aravind). South Asian Language Analysis 38 Conference, Nagaland University, India. Novemeber 2024. [Talk]

6. Acquisition of Hindi-Urdu Causatives (with Parul Bhardwaj). South Asian Language Analysis 38 Conference, Nagaland University, India. Novemeber 2024. [Talk]

7. Verb Agreement in Bagri and Dhundhari (With Arpita Chopra & Punam Silu).South Asian Language Analysis 36 – Linguistic Society of Nepal 43 Conference, Tribhuvan University.  November 2022. [Talk] 

8. Agreement in Dumi (With Ekaterina Vostrikova & Leland Kusmer. South Asian Language Analysis 36 – Linguistic Society of Nepal 43 Conference, Tribhuvan University. 2022.  [Talk] 

9. Agreement Processing in Hindi: The Limits of Attraction (With Brian Dillon). South Asian Forum on the Acquisition & Processing of Language 1, University of Potsdam, Germany. September 2020. [Abstract] [Conference Website]

10. Implications of Feature Realization in Hindi-Urdu Copular Sentences (with Rajesh Bhatt).  FASAL 10, Ohio State University, March 2020. [Talk] [Abstract] [Conference website]

11. Agreement Attraction in Hindi: Subject Agreement parallels Object Agreement (with Brian Dillon). Object Agreement Across Barriers, University of Zagreb, Croatia, September 2019. [Talk] [Abstract] [Conference website]

12. Prediction failure and local coherence in a head-final language. (with Samar Husain). Psycholinguistics in Iceland – Parsing and Prediction, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. June 2019. [Talk] [Abstract] [Conference website]

13. Agreement attraction in a mixed agreement system: Evidence from Hindi. (with Brian Dillon). 32nd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. March 2019. [Poster]

14. Agreement attraction in Subject Agreement and Object Agreement: Evidence from Hindi. (with Brian Dillon). Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages  9 (FASAL 9) Conference, Reed College, USA. March 2019.  [Poster]

15. Investigating Local Coherence Effects in Hindi. (With Samar Husain). Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 9 (FASAL 9) Conference, Reed College, USA. March 2019. [Poster]

16. Processing Hindi Doubly Center Embedded Structures. (with Samar Husain). Annual Conference of Cognitive Science 5 (ACCS 5) . Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. October 2018. [Talk] 

17. (Not) Forgetting Verbs in Hindi Doubly Center-Embedded Structures . (with Samar Husain). Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference. Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. September 2018. [Poster]

18. Forgetting Effects due to Local Coherence in Hindi. (with Samar Husain).  CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference 31 (CUNY 31). University of California, Davis, USA. March 2018.  [Poster]

19. Forgetting Effects in a head-final language: Evidence from Hindi. (with Samar Husain). Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Asia (AMLaP-Asia). Hyderabad Central University, India. February 2018. [Poster]

20. When Unmarked Case Matters: Processing Agreement in Hindi. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 30 (CUNY 30). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. March 2017. [Poster]

21. When Unmarked Case matters: Processing Agreement in Hindi. Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 7 (FASAL 7). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. March 2017. [Talk]

22. Scope Parallelism in Hindi-Urdu Sluicing (With Jyoti Iyer). Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 7 (FASAL 7). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. March 2017. [Talk]

23. Indirect interaction of person and number (With Ekaterina Vostrikova & Leland Kusmer). Generative Linguistics in the Old World 39 (GLOW 39) . University of Goettingen, Germany. April 2016. [Talk]

24. Indirect interaction of person and number (With Ekaterina Vostrikova & Leland Kusmer). Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas 21 (WSCLA 21). Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada. April 2016. [Talk]

25. Deriving Subject and Anti-subject Orientation (With Ethan Poole). Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 6 (FASAL 6). University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. March 2016. [Talk]

26. Causation in Hindi-Urdu: Instruments and Subjects. Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 5 (FASAL 5). Yale University, Connecticut, USA. April 2015. [Talk]

27. Multiple Focus in Hindi-Urdu. Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 4 (FASAL 4). Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. March 2014. [Talk]

28. The Grammar of Hindi-English Code-Switching. Students’ Conference on Linguistics in India 7 (SCONLI 7) . Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. February 2013. [Talk]

29. Comparatives in Hindi-Urdu. (with Jyoti Iyer & Gurmeet Kaur). Students’ Conference on Linguistics in India 7 (SCONLI 7). Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. February 2013. [Talk]

30. A Nanosyntax approach to Hindi Case and Path Expressions. (with Jyoti Iyer). Students’ Conference on Linguistics in India 6 (SCONLI 6). Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. February 2012. [Talk]

31. Case in Hindi (with focus on Dative Case). Students’ Conference on Linguistics in India 5 (SCONLI 5). Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad, India. February 2011. [Talk]