De se attitudes
Clausal complementation
Epistemic modals, future tense, and evidentials
Classifiers and number marking
Case licensing
South Asian linguistic area
Akolkar, Shweta. 2024. Interpreting the shifty first person inclusive pronoun in Marathi. In Proceedings of SALT 34. [pdf]
Akolkar, Shweta and Sansan Claude Hien. To appear. De re readings of the Lobi logophoric pronoun: Results and diagnostics. In Proceedings of TripleA. [pre-print]
Akolkar, Shweta, Sansan Claude Hien, and Kang, Franco Liu. 2025. Two ways of licensing subjects: Switch reference & wh/focus fronting in Lobi. In Proceedings of WCCFL 41. [pre-print]
Akolkar, Shweta. 2023. Co-occurring plural marking and classifiers in Bishnupriya Manipuri. In Proceedings of NELS 53, Volume One, pp. 15-28. [pre-print]
Various chapters in Hannah Sande and Sansan Claude Hien (eds.), Aspects of Lobi Grammar. Submitted. Berlin: Language Sciences Press.
Hien, Sansan Claude, Hannah Sande, and Shweta Akolkar. Background on the Lobi language, pp. 13-26.
Akolkar, Shweta, Anna Macknick, Hannah Sande, and Mingyu Yuan. Nominal morphology and noun phrase word order, pp. 69-102.
Akolkar, Shweta, Kang Franco Liu, and Hannah Sande. Verbal morphology and argument structure, pp. 103-122.
Akolkar, Shweta, Kang Franco Liu, and Hannah Sande. Clause types and multi-clause constructions, pp. 141-162.
Akolkar, Shweta. Focus and its morphosyntactic reflexes in Lobi, pp. 315-336.
Akolkar, Shweta and Sansan Claude Hien. Postpartum taboos text, pp. 393-398.
2025. Asymmetries in the expression of modality in Bishnupriya Manipuri. (With Uttam Singha.) Talk at TripleA 12, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
2025. Two structures for modal clauses in Marathi and implications for case. Talk at Syntax and Morphology Circle, Stanford University.
2024. De re readings of the Lobi logophoric pronoun. (With Sansan Claude Hien.) Talk at TripleA 11, Nantes Université.
2024. An unexpected case of indexical shift in Marathi. Talk at the Varieties of Perspective Shift Workshop, École normale supérieure - Paris. (handout)
2024. Shifty first person inclusive and de re-free domains in Marathi. Poster at SALT 34, University of Rochester. (poster)
2024. Documenting languages in the urban diaspora: Lessons from a New York non-profit. With the Endangered Language Alliance. Panel presentation at the LSA Annual Meeting. New York, NY.
2023. Relativization in Lobi. (With Rebecca Jarvis & Sansan Claude Hien.) Talk at SASAL 3, Goethe-University Frankfurt.
2023. Morphological RE-alization of focus in Lobi. With Sansan Claude Hien and Kang Franco Liu. Talk at ACAL 54, UConn. (handout)
2023. Two ways of licensing subjects: Switch reference & wh/focus fronting in Lobi. With Sansan Claude Hien and Kang Franco Liu. Talk at WCCFL 41, UC Santa Cruz. (similar handout)
2023. Co-occurring plural marking and classifiers in Bishnupriya Manipuri. Talk at NELS 53, University of Göttingen. (handout)