Hello! I am Madhusmitha [mədʰʊsmɪt̪ɑ]. 

I recently defended my PhD dissertation at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. At present, I am an Ad-hoc faculty member at the School of Humanities and Management, National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh. 

A generative syntactician in the making, my current work focuses on the structural configurations underlying gender features with a specific focus on asymmetrically bilingual grammars. 

My research questions focus on understanding the syntax of heritage grammars from the perspective of stability  and change. In my PhD dissertation, I explored core syntax as a resilient grammatical phenomenon in heritage grammars, and how it displays stability despite acquisition under restricted primary linguistic data and potential cross-linguistic influence. You can find a copy of my dissertation here.

I am part of the SynDaC Research Group at IIT Delhi, headed by Prof. Pritha Chandra, where I was jointly supervised by  Pritha Chandra and Roberta D'Alessandro. 

You can download my CV here.