Presentations and Talks

Structural Height of Nominalization: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Gerundive Nominals in Three South Asian Languages  with Biswanath Dash at the 16th Formal Analysis of South Asian Languages (FASAL-16), University of South Carolina, April 18

Exploring Stability and Change in Heritage Grammars: Derived Adjectives in Heritage Tamil at the Syntax Interface Lectures, Utrecht University, March 26
[Invited Talk]

Biological Gender, nP and the Syntax of Predicative Possession in Tamil at the GLOW in Asia the 2nd Workshop for Young Scholars, Nanzan University, Nagoya, March 13-15

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, February 12-13

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

• Student Presentation Excellence Award

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

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

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

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