Publications
Peer-reviewed
Venkatesan, M. Anti Locality in Bilingual Grammars: The View from Gender Agreement in L2 Hindi-Urdu. To appear in Lin Zhu (ed) Exploring Bilingualism: Methodology and Empirical Research . Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
In Edited Volumes
Venkatesan, M. 2025. The Syntax of Attributive and Predicative Adjectives in Tamil in Keira Colleluori (ed) Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth Western Conference on Linguistics.
Venkatesan, M. 2025. An Agree-based Analysis of Nominal Agreement: Evidence from Hindi-Urdu in Daniel Greeson, Shrayana Haldar, Anushree Mishra and Aidan Sharma (eds) Proceedings of the 14th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages.
Venkatesan, M. 2025. Keeping the Syntax of Predication and Modification Distinct: The View from Tamil in Papers from the International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification.
Venkatesan, M. 2023. Gender Agreement in a Tamil-Hindi Bilingual Situation: The Role of Feature Valuation in Samopriya Basu and Aaditya Kulkarni (eds) Proceedings of the 13th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages.
Conference Presentations
2026 Core Syntactic Aspects of Gender Show Stability in Heritage Grammars: Evidence from Heritage Tamil in New Delhi at the Workshop on Migration and Linguistic Heritage: Theoretical Frameworks and Methodological Approaches, Lausanne University
2025 Gender as a Derivational Constraint in Predicative Possession: The Case of Heritage Tamil at the 6th Heritage Language Syntax Conference, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Türkiye, November 6-7
Syntactic Doubling as Innovation in Heritage Tamil with Pritha Chandra at the 6th Heritage Language Syntax Conference, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Türkiye, November 6-7
Third Factor Principles-motivated Syntactic Doubling: Evidence from Heritage Tamil with Pritha Chandra at the Third factors in language design: the view from Heritage Languages, INALCO, Paris, June 6
Deriving Adjectives in Heritage Tamil: Stability and Change at the 15th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages FASAL-15, University of Texas, Austin, April 11-13
Deriving Adjectives in Heritage Tamil: Stability and Change at the 47th Generative Linguistics in the Old World, GLOW-47, Goethe University, Frankfurt, March 25-27
Attrition of Discourse-based Biological Gender: Evidence from Heritage Tamil at the 15th Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India SCONLI-15, University of Delhi, New Delhi, January 29-31
2024 Keeping the Syntax of Modification and Predication Distinct: The View from Tamil at the International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification, Nihon University, Tokyo, November 16-17
The Syntax of Attributive and Predicative Adjectives in Tamil at the Western Conference on Linguistics, California State University, Fresno, November 16-17
An Agree-based Analysis of Nominal Agreement: Evidence from Hindi-Urdu at the 14th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages FASAL-14, Stony Brook University, New York, April 4-6
2023 Grammatical Gender in a Tamil-Hindi Bilingual Situation: The Role of Feature Valuation at the 13th (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages (f)-ASAL-13, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 31-April 2
2020 Point of View: An Important Feature of Reflexivity in Tamil at the 42nd International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India ICOLSI-42, GLA University, Mathura, December 12-14