Papers and presentations

Papers

Do dependency lengths explain constraints on crossing dependencies? Himanshu Yadav, Samar Husain and Richard Futrell. Linguistics Vanguard. 2021. 7(s3): 20190070. [pdf]

Barla, Tanuj. “Orthography as evidence for Schwa Epenthesis in Hindi”. Paper presentation at SALA-36: 36 South Asian Language Roundtable Analysis, Kathmandu, Nepal. (Upcoming)

Banerjee, Sayantani. ‘Optionality and Referentiality’ at the proceedings of Northwest Linguistic Conference 37. 2021. (submitted)

Banerjee, Sayantani. and Dutta, Chandni. ‘Case Stacking in Bangla’ at the proceedings of 42nd International Conference of Linguistics in India. 2021. (submitted)

Banerjee, Sayantani. ‘Nominative Case and TP’ at the proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Indigenous Languages: Towards Sustainable Multilingualism 2021 (selected and to appear)

Banerjee, Sayantani. ‘Why case’ at the proceedings of the International Conference on Communication, Computation and Cognition. 2021. (selected and to appear)

Sanyal, Paroma, et al. "Hindi Root Allomorphy: Insights from phonological and morpho-syntactic theory". Trends in South Asian Linguistics, edited by Sharma, Ghanshyam and Lowe, John J. De Gruyter Mouton, 2021 (To appear)

Sanyal, Paroma and Tanuj Barla. "Optionality in Hindi schwa deletion: interaction between weighted prosodic constraints." Proceedings of Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (9), 16-17 March 2019, Portland, Oregon, eds. Deepak Alok and Sreekar Raghotham, published on 26 March, 2021.

Sanyal, Paroma, et al. "Hindi Root Allomorphy: Insights from phonological and morpho-syntactic theory". Trends in South Asian Linguistics, edited by Sharma, Ghanshyam and Lowe, John J. De Gruyter Mouton, 2021 (To appear)

Prasad, Ankita. "Fortition in Marked on Marked Contexts: Velar Stopping in Sylheti" Proceedings of FASAL 9 (16-17 March, 2019). Alok, Deepak and Sreekar Raghotham (eds.). Published by University of Konstanz, Germany. 2021

Kumari, Preeti. “Honorificity feature: A Reanalysis of Number in Bangla and Maithili”. Readings in South Asian Linguistics, edited by Ghanshyam Sharma (INALCO, Paris) and John Lowe (Oxford) and published by LINCOM-Europa, Munich, Germany (forthcoming), 2021.

Kumari, Preeti. “Comparing Honorificity Agreement in Maithili and Bangla”. Variation in Approaches to Language Variation, edited by Pritha Chandra (Under review), 2021.

Thirukovela, Nikhilesh (2021). Semantic mismatch and microvariation in Telugu psych-PC predicates: Event structure of ‘-ki’ and ‘-gaa’. In proceedings of (Formal) Approaches to Asian Languages, (F)ASAL-11. Institute of Linguistics, University of Minnesota. Minnesota-Minneapolis. USA. (forthcoming).

Chandra, Pritha, Preeti, Kumari, and Miok Pak. “3rd Person is Person too: Evidence from Honorific Constructions”. Proceedings of the 23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (forthcoming), 2021.

Chandra, Pritha, Chandni, Dutta and Preeti Kumari. "Plural inflection in a Classifier Language". MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, edited by Gabi Danon (forthcoming), 2021.

Kumari, Preeti. “Portmanteau Honorificity Agreement in Maithili”. Proceedings of the Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages- 11 (forthcoming), 2021.

Apurva and Husain, Samar. Parsing errors in Hindi: Investigating limits to verbal prediction in an SOV language .(2021) Springer (In Submission)

Apurva and Husain, Samar. "Revisiting Anti-locality Effects: Evidence Against Prediction-Based Accounts". (2021) Journal of Memory and Language. (Published)

Chandra, Pritha, Dutta, Chandni and Kumari, Preeti. "Plural inflection in a Classifier Language". (2021). MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, edited by Gabi Danon (forthcoming).

Banerjee, Sayantani and Dutta, Chandni. “Case Stacking in Bangla”. Proceedings of 42nd International Conference of Linguistics in India (ICOLSI 42). (submitted).

Presentation

Barla, Tanuj. “Nasal Assimilation in Hindi: Encoding the consonants”, Online paper presentation at the 42nd International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, 10-12 December, 2020, hosted by Department of English, GLA University, Mathura in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore.

Sharma, Vyom. "Non-veridicality in Habitual Context." Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages, 2021.

Semantic mismatch and microvariation in Telugu psych-PC predicates: Event structure of ‘-ki’ and ‘-gaa’. In (Formal) Approaches to Asian Languages, (F)ASAL-11. Institute of Linguistics, University of Minnesota. Minnesota-Minneapolis. USA. 26-28th March 2021.

Kumari, Preeti. “Person and Honorificity Agreement: A Comparison between Maithili and Bangla”. Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) - 11, 2021

Kumari, Preeti. “Honorificity Feature Licensing: Evidence from Bangla and Maithili”. UNC Linguistics Spring Colloquium, 2021.

“Phonological Analysis of Tone Inducing Consonants in Punjabi”- Research Paper presented at (F)ASAL 11 (Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages),2021 at University of Minnesota, USA on 27-29 March 2021.

Chandra, Pritha, Chandni, Dutta and Preeti Kumari. "Plural inflection in a Classifier Language". 36th Annual Conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, 2021.

Banerjee, Sayantani. 'Optionality and Referentiality'. Northwest Linguistic Conference 2021 (NWLC37), 2021

Banerjee, Sayantani. 'Case change in Eastern Indo-Aryan languages'. 17th Linguistics Conference for PhD Students (STaPs17). 2021

Banerjee, Sayantani. ‘Subject marking variation in Eastern Indo-Aryan languages’. 5th Norwegian Graduate Student Conference in Linguistics and Philology (NoSLiP 2021). 2021

Papers

Target complexity modulates syntactic priming during comprehension. Samar Husain and Himanshu Yadav. Frontiers in Psychology-Language Sciences. 2020.

[pdf]Word order typology interacts with linguistic complexity: a cross-linguistic corpus study. Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya, Vishakha Shukla, and Samar Husain. Cognitive Science. 2020. [pdf]

Clause final verb prediction in Hindi: Evidence for noisy channel model of communication. Kartik Sharma, Niyati Bafna and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) 2021. [pdf]

What determines the order of verbal dependents in Hindi? Effects of efficiency in comprehension and production. Kartik Sharma, Richard Futrell and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) 2020. [pdf]

Chandra, P., G. Kaur and A. Sahoo. In print. ‘Non-active voices in South Asian languages’ In Kleanthes Grohmann, Akemi Matsuya and Eva-Maria Remberger (eds) Passives. Netherlands: Leiden: Brill.

Chandra, P. and G. Kaur. 2020. ‘Braj in the Ergativity Hierarchy’. In Bhamati Das and Gurmeet Kaur (eds). Fasal 7 Proceedings, Journal for South Asian Languages, hosted by University of Konstanz.

Selective Acquisition of Malayalam. (2020). Special issue of Language and Language Teaching (LLT) on Language Acquisition in Non-Tutored Settings. Guest ed. R. Amritavalli, Vol 17. January 2020.

Prasad, Ankita. "Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Spirantization in Sylheti: Changing the Story". Tariq, Khan (ed.) Queries in the Structure of Language.2020, CIIL, Mysuru (260-275) (Select Papers from ICOLSI-40)

Interaction of Voice, Aspiration and Tone in Punjabi: An Optimality Theoretic Account”, published in the book ‘Queries in the Structure of Language’, edited by Tariq Khan, published in 2020 by CIIL Mysore and Linguistic Society of India.

Apurva and Husain, Samar. Anti-locality effects in Hindi suggests a shallow parsing strategy. (2020) In Proceedings of the First South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL-1), Potsdam, Germany .(Abstract)

Apurva and Husain, Samar. Parsing Errors in Hindi. (2020) In Proceedings of the First South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL-1), Potsdam, Germany . (Abstract)

Chaursiya K. "Laryngeal Co-occurrence Restrictions in Hindi" at ICOLSI-42 (2020) (Submitted)

Barla, Tanuj. “Nasal Assimilation in Hindi: Encoding the Consonants”. Proceedings of 42nd International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, 2020, hosted by Department of English, GLA University, Mathura in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore. (submitted)

Presentations

Odud M.W. & Husain S. "Limits to Syntactic Priming". (2020). First South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL-1).

Banerjee, Sayantani. ‘Why case’. International Conference on Communication, Computation and Cognition. 2020

Banerjee, Sayantani. ‘Ergative Case Loss’. 42nd International Conference of Linguistics in India (ICOLSI-42). 2020

Banerjee, Sayantani. and Dutta, Chandni. ‘‘Case Stacking in Bangla’. 42nd International Conference of Linguistics in India (ICOLSI-42). 2020

Banerjee, Sayantani. ‘Nominative case and Optionality: Evidence from Old Bangla’. 2020 workshop on Case and Related Issues as a part of Seoul National University’s International Conference on Linguistics (SNU-ICL), 2020

Banerjee, Sayantani. ‘Nominative Case and TP’. 2nd International Conference on Indigenous Languages: Towards Sustainable Multilingualism (ICOIL 2).2020

Dutta, Chandni and Banerjee, Sayantani. “Non-nominative Case Assignment in Bangla subjects.” Accepted at the 36th South Asian Language Roundtable Analysis conference (SALA-36). 2020

Chaursiya K. & Sanyal P. "Laryngeal markedness: Evidence from Native Hindi Speaker’s Intuitions" is selected for presentation at SALA-36 2020, Kathmandu (Nepal). (Delayed due to Covid)

Sanyal, Paroma and Ankita Prasad. "Metathesis and Spirantisation in Sylheti: A Duke of York Gambit" at the 42nd International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-42) at GLA University, Mathura (Virtual) on December 10-12 2020

Odud M.W. & Husain S. "Limits to Syntactic Priming". (2020). First South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL-1).

Kumari, Preeti. “Plural/Honorific Contrast: A Comparison between Germanic and EIA DPs”. 5th Naxos Summer School on Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe, 2020.

Kumari, Preeti. “Honorificity Feature: A Reanalysis of Number in EIA languages.” 2nd International Conference on Indigenous Languages: Towards Sustainable Multilingualism. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2020.

Banerjee, Sayantani. ‘Phenomenon of Optional Ergativity’ presented in the 2nd Workshop on Approaches to Language Variation (WALV 2). 2020

“Interaction of Voice, Aspiration and Tone in Punjabi: An Optimality Theoretic Account” – Research paper presented at ICOLSI-40 (40th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India) at CIIL, Mysore on 3-4 December 2018.

Dutta, Chandni “Comparative Study Between Chinese and EIA Classifiers.” (2020). at 2nd Workshop on Approaches to Language Variation (WALV II), IIT Kanpur, India.

Dutta, Chandni “Genitive Case in Bangla.”(2020). At 2nd International Conference on Indigenous Languages (ICOIL-2), IIT Madras, India. (Presented).

Banerjee, Sayantani and Dutta Chandni. “Case Stacking in Bangla”(2020). At 42nd International Conference of Linguistics in India (ICOLSI 42). (presented).

Dutta, Chandni; Banerjee, Sayantani “Non-nominative Case Assignment in Bangla subjects.” Accepted at the 36th South Asian Language Roundtable Analysis conference (SALA-36) 2020.

Papers

Are formal restrictions on crossing dependencies epiphenomenal? Himanshu Yadav, Samar Husain and Richard Futrell. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, Paris. 2019. [pdf]

Can Greenbergian universals be induced from language networks? Kartik Sharma, Kaivalya Swami, Aditya Shete and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, Paris. 2019. [pdf]

Book Review of What kind of creatures are we? By Noam Chomsky, Columbia University Press (2015) and Tulika Books (2018) (with Jobin Thomas) (2019) The JMC Review (ISSN: 2456-9550).

Chandra, P. 2019. 'Commentary On Linguistic history and language diversity in India: Views and counterviews By Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi’. Special Issue of the Journal of Biosciences, Indian Academy of Sciences. Springer.

Chandra, P. 2019. ‘Urdu: A Minority Language?’ In R. Kumar and O. Prakash (eds). Language Identity and Contemporary Society, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Chandra, P. and G. Kaur. 2019. ‘Macro Differences in Dialects’. 42th Penn Linguistics Conference Proceedings, Penn Linguistics Working Paper, University of Pennsylvania.

Apurva and Husain, Samar. Local Coherence and Case-Marker Exchange Cause Parsing Errors in Hindi. (2019). In Proceedings of the Sixth Annual conference of the Association for Cognitive Science in India (ACCS), Goa. India. (Paper)

Apurva and Husain, Samar.Cost of Ungrammatical Predictions During Online Comprehension. (2019). In Proceedings of the Psycholinguistics in Iceland -- Parsing and Prediction (PIPP) conference, Reykjavik, Iceland. 2019. (Abstract)

Apurva and Husain, Samar.Cost of Ungrammatical Predictions During Online Sentence Processing: Evidence Against Surprisal ? (2019). In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY -2019), UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER, U.S.A. 29th-31st March 2019. (Abstract)

Sanyal P. & Chaursiya K. "Palatal Dissimilation in the Context of Paradigm Uniformity", ICOLSI-41 (2019) (Submitted)

Presentations

Barla, Tanuj. “Underapplication of Nasal Assimilation in Hindi and its Implications”, Bridging Research On Cognition And Speech (BROCAS),13-14 December 2019, IIT Ropar, Punjab.

"An Orthographic Analysis of the Fricative-Stop Alternation in Sylheti: Evidence for Underspecification in the Input" to Bridging Research On Cognition And Speech (BROCAS 2019 ) held at IIT-Ropar, on 14th December 2019.

Exponents of the adjectival (a)-categorizer in Telangana Telugu. In 41st International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-41). Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU), Amarkantak, MP, India. 13-15th November 2019.

Chaursiya K. & Sanyal P. "OCP Effects in Hindi Syllabification" at BROCAS 2019 at IIT, Ropar from 13th to14th December, 2019.

Chaursiya K. et al. "Laryngeal Cues in Hindi and Bangla" at BROCAS 2019 at IIT, Ropar from 13th to14th December, 2019.

“Tone and Aspiration correspondence in Punjabi”- Research paper presented at BROCAS (Bridging Research on Cognition and Speech) 2019 at IIT Ropar on 13-14 December 2019.

Chandra, Pritha and Preeti, Kumari. “Plural Licensing & Meso-variation”. Workshop, Ling2: Number and Plurality: Crosslinguistic Variation in the Nominal Domain. University of Göttingen, Germany, 2019.

Kumari, Preeti. "Micro Level Gender Restrictions in Maithili." 41st International Conference of Linguistic Society of India. Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, 2019.

Sanyal, Paroma; Chaurasiya, Krishna; Dutta, Chandni; Banerjee, Sayantani. “Laryngeal cues in Hindi and Bangla: An exploratory study.(2019) at Bridging Research On Cognition And Speech (BROCAS) 2019, IIT Ropar, India.

Chaursiya K. & Sanyal P. "Dataset for French Syllable Structure’ on topic: The Balance Between Universals and Variation in Grammar” for presentation in Phonological Theory Agora, Nice (Paris, France), 2019.

Papers

Apurva and Husain, Samar.How Good Is Prediction In Head-Final Languages? (2018). In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP-2018), Berlin, Germany. 6th-8th September 2018. (Abstract)

Apurva and Husain, Samar. Working Memory Constraints Override Prediction In Processing Hindi Center-embedded Constructions. (2018). In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP-2018), Berlin, Germany. 6th-8th September 2018. (Abstract)

Apurva and Husain, Samar. Investigating prediction processes in Hindi through Entropy, Surprisal and Ungrammaticality. 2018. In Proceedings of the Bridging Research On Cognition And Speech (BROCAS), IIT Ropar, India. 17th-18th February 2018. (Abstract)

Presentations

Barla, Tanuj. “Burzio’s Generalization and Split-Ergativity in Hindi”, 40th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, 3-9 December, 2018, CIIL Mysore, Karnataka.

Prasad, Ankita. "Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Spirantization in Sylheti: Changing the Story" 40th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-40) held at CIIL, Mysuru, on 5-7 December 2018

Paroma et al. "Hindi Root-Allomorphy: A counter-evidence to the Subset Principle?" 41st International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-41) held at Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, on 15th November 2019.

Kumari, Preeti. “Variation in Aspect-based Split Ergativity in Indo-Aryan Languages”. 40th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-40). Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 2018.

Papers

Paroma Sanyal's paper titled - 'Prosodically conditioned harmony in Bangla'- has been accepted for 'PHONOLOGY Workshop' at GLOW - 41, Budapest, 10-14 April 2018.

Paroma Sanyal and Manujata's co-authored paper titled - Glottal phonation in Punjabi: tone or aspiration- has been accepted for 'South Asian Languages session' at 175th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 7, 2018.

5 abstracts (3 paper presentations and 2 posters) from the Psycholinguistics Lab @ IIT Delhi have been accepted for the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing - Asia (AMLaP-Asia) Conference 2018.

• Working-memory constraints influence prediction processes in Hindi. Apurva and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing - Asia (AMLaP-Asia), University of Hyderabad, India. 2018. (to appear)

• Locality effect in a head final language: Evidence from Hindi. Samar Husain and Himanshu Yadav. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing - Asia (AMLaP-Asia), University of Hyderabad, India. 2018. (to appear)

• Crosslinguistic comparison of crossing dependencies using psycholinguistically motivated measures. Vishakha Shukla, Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing - Asia (AMLaP-Asia), University of Hyderabad, India. 2018. (to appear)

• Role of prediction and memory constraints in processing crossing dependencies in Hindi (Poster). Himanshu Yadav and Samar Husain. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing - Asia (AMLaP-Asia), University of Hyderabad, India. 2018. (to appear)

• Forgetting effects in a head-final language: Evidence from Hindi (Poster). Samar Husain and Sakshi Bhatia. In Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing - Asia (AMLaP-Asia), University of Hyderabad, India. 2018. (to appear)

Defense

Usha Udaar defended her PhD thesis 'Ergativity in Western Indo-Aryan languages' successfully.

Gurmeet Kaur defended her PhD thesis 'Person in Punjabi: Investigating Argument and Clitic Licensing' successfully.

Publications

Ashem, R. and Sanyal, P. 2016. Inflectional Paradigm in Meiteilon. Swanimam News Journal volume (2). Phonetics Laboratory: University of Kerela.

Kaur, G. (in print) ‘Person based ergativity in Punjabi: Comparing transitive and unergative 1st/2nd person subjects’. Indian Linguistics, vol. 77

Chandra, P., Kaur, G. and Udaar, U. (in print) Optional Ergativity with Unergatives in Punjabi'. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics

Ashem, R., Kaur G. and Udaar, U. (eds.) (accepted, under contract). Structures and Syntax: Exploring South Asian Languages. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Safavi, M. S., Husain, S. and Vasishth, S. Dependency resolution difficulty increases with distance in Persian separable complex predicates: Evidence for expectation and memory-based accounts. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 2016. Special Issue on Encoding and Navigating Linguistic Representations in Memory. [pdf | code]

Presentations

Reena presented a talk titled 'An account of Optimal Paradigm in Meiteilon' at 22nd Himalayan Linguistics Symposium held at Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, Assam (8th to 10th, June)

Gurmeet presented a talk titled 'Clitic licensing as a side-effect of 1st/2nd person licensing: the case of -suu in Punjabi' at the Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL6) held at UMass, Amherst, USA (12-13 March)

Pritha and Gurmeet presented a poster titled 'The Perfect Nominative' at the Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL6) held at UMass, Amherst, USA (12-13 March)

Reena and Paroma presented a poster titled 'Scopal effects of Reduplication' at the Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL6) held at UMass, Amherst, USA (12-13 March)

Samar Husain and Shravan Vasishth. Processing Hindi relative clauses: Evidence against expectation-based theories. Poster presentation at the 29th CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. 2016.

Samar Husain and Dave Kush. Linear proximity effects in Hindi reciprocal resolution. Poster presentation at the 29th CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. 2016.

Molood Sadat Safavi, Samar Husain, and Shravan Vasishth. Dependency resolution difficulty increases with distance in Persian complex predicates: Evidence against the expectation-based account. Poster presentation at the 29th CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. 2016.

Reena presented a poster titled 'Tones in Meiteilon: A link with voicing?' at the Workshop on Tone and Intonation 3 held at IIT Guwahati from 7th to 8th January, 2016.

Gurmeet presented her paper titled 'LDA in Punjabi: the nature of 'want'' at the International Conference of South Asian Languages and Literature (ICOSAL 12) held at the University of Hyderabad from 7th to 9th January, 2016.

Lalit Rajkumar and Reena presented a paper titled 'Nominalization: a strategy for honorific enchancement' at the International Conference of South Asian Languages and Literature (ICOSAL 12) held at the University of Hyderabad from 7th to 9th January, 2016.

Presentations

October, 2015: Gurmeet presented her paper 'Transitive and unergative 1st/2nd person subjects: A comparison' at the International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-37) held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India.

October, 2015: Reena presented her paper 'Phonological phrase in Meiteilon' at the International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-37) held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India.

Publications

Husain, S. and S. Vasishth and N. Srinivasan. 2015. Integration and prediction difficulty in Hindi sentence comprehension: Evidence from an eye-tracking corpus. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 8(2):1-12.

PhD defense

August, 2015: Anindita Sahoo defended her PhD thesis titled 'Passives in some South Asian Languages: A comparative investigation'. She was supervised by Dr. Pritha Chandra.

Publications

Chandra, P. and A. Sahoo. 2015. ‘Ditransitive Active-passives in Malayalam’ International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics.

Chandra, P. and U. Udaar. 2015. ‘Ergative Case and Verbal Agreement: Explaining Dialectal Variations in Nepali’. Acta Linguistica 9:1.

Husain, S. and S. Vasishth. 2015. Non-projectivity and processing constraints: Insights from Hindi. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependency Linguistics. Uppsala.

Kaur, G. 2015. Defective intervention and phi-agreement: a puzzle from Punjabi. In Proceedings of the Ninth Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (Sconli-9), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Available at https://sites.google.com/site/sconli9iitd/sconli-9-proceedings

Udaar, U. 2015. Nature of Ergative case: A study of ergativity in Haryanavi. In Proceedings of the Ninth Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (Sconli-9), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Available at https://sites.google.com/site/sconli9iitd/sconli-9-proceedings

MTech/PhD completion

May 2015: Sidharth Ranjan (Dept. of Electrical Engineering) successfully finished his MTech thesis on "Investigating Locality Effects in Hindi Production". Dr. Rajakumar Rajakrishnan (HSS, Linguistics) and Dr. Sumeet Agarwal (Dept. of Electrical Engineering) were Sidharth's guide.

Presentations

March, 2015: Gurmeet presented her paper 'Defective intervention and phi agreement: A puzzle from Punjabi' at the Ninth Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (Sconli-9) held at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.

March, 2015: Usha presented her paper 'Nature of ergative case: A study of ergativity in Haryanavi' at the Ninth Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (Sconli-9) held at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.

April, 2015: For her Research Plan Presentation, Reena talked about ' Phonological Phrases in Meiteilon: a syntax-phonology interface account' before her SCR members (Dr. Paroma Sanyal, Dr. Pritha Chandra and Dr. Tanmoy Bhattacharya).

May, 2015: Gurmeet and Pritha presented their paper 'On the nature of objects in Unergatives' at the South Asian Languages Analysis at Lancaster University, UK.

May, 2015: Gurmeet presented her paper 'Conjunct Agreement: Patterns and role of the person feature' at the South Asian Languages Analysis at Lancaster University, UK.

May, 2015: Pritha presented her work on 'Agreement Variations without Uninterpretable Features' in ‘What Drives Syntactic Computations: Alternatives to Formal Features’ at Leipzig, Germany.