Presentations

Conference Presentations:

(Feel free to drop me a mail for the handouts/slides of any of these):

1. Kumari, Preeti & Chandni Dutta. (2024). Classifier Reduplication in Maithili. Western Conference on Linguistics. California State University, Fresno.

2. Galbriath, Matthew, Preeti Kumari & Martina Wiltschko. (2024). Grammar Plays a Role in Human-Computer Interaction, Huh? Eutopia workshop - Beyond Words…Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Approaches to Language, Contexts, and Modalities. University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 

3. Galbriath, Matthew, Preeti Kumari & Martina Wiltschko. (2024). Grammar Plays a Role in Human-Computer Interaction, Huh? The Seoul International Conference on Linguistics. Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.

4. Kumari, Preeti & Martina Wiltschko. (2024). Politeness: At the Crossroads of Mind and Culture. The 10th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

5. Kumari, Preeti & Martina Wiltschko. (2024). AI’s truth is not my truth and what language has to do with it. The 10th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

6. Kumari, Preeti & Yash Sinha. (2024). Honorific mismatches can be morphological: Evidence from Maithili. 2nd Charting Honorific and Allocutive Morphosyntactic Processes Conference.  University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.

7. Kumari, Preeti & Martina Wiltschko. (2023). There is more than one way to be formal: Evidence from pronominal typology. 2nd International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics. Zhejiang International Studies University, Hangzhou, China. 

8. Kumari Preeti, Miok Pak & Pritha Chandra. (2023). Allocutive and Object Agreement Complementarity: The FinP in Maithili. 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of California, Santa Cruz, US.

9. Kumari, Preeti & Martina Wiltschko. (2023). Against a Uniform Approach to Allocutives and Vocatives. 1stCharting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes Conference. University College London, London, UK.

10. Chandra, Pritha & Preeti Kumari. (2022). Asymmetry of Possessor Agreement in Maithili. Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia, XIII. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 

11. Kumari, Preeti. (2022). Honorificity in the Nominal Spine – A DP-Internal Account. 30th Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE), Université de Nantes, Nantes, France. 

12. Kumari, Preeti. (2021). The Differential Status of Honorificity in the Indo-Aryan Languages. International Conference on Hindi Grammar and Lexicon, INALCO, Paris, France. 

13. Chandra, Pritha, Chandni Dutta & Preeti Kumari. (2021). Plural Inflection in a Classifier Language. The 36thAnnual Conference of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics (IATL), Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel. 

14. Chandra, Pritha, Preeti Kumari & Miok Pak. (2021). 3rd Person is Person too: Evidence from Honorific Constructions. 23rd Seoul International Conference of Generative Grammar (SICOGG), Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. 

15. Kumari, Preeti. (2020). Plural/Honorific Contrast: A Comparison between Germanic and EIA DPs. 5th Naxos Summer School on Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 

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

17. Kumari, Preeti. (2020). Honorificity in Syntax: An Expression in Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages. 2nd Workshop on Approaches to Language Variation. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India. 

18. Chandra, Pritha & Preeti Kumari. (2019). Plural Licensing & Meso-variation. Workshop, Ling2: Number and Plurality: Cross-linguistic Variation in the Nominal Domain. University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. 

19. Kumari, Preeti. (2019). Micro-level Gender Restrictions in Maithili. 41st International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI). Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, India.  

20. Kumari, Preeti. (2019). Comparing Honorificity Agreement in Maithili and Bangla. ICSSR-IITD Workshop on Approaches to Linguistic Variation. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India. 

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

22. Kumari, Preeti. (2018). Meso and Micro Level Gender Restrictions in Eastern Indo-Aryan. Utrecht- IITD Symposium on Linguistic Variation. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India. 

23. Kumari, Preeti. (2016). An Enquiry into the History of Maithili Language Policy, Its Politics and Turn of Events in the Age of Technology. 4th International Endangered and Lesser-known Languages Conference. Department of Linguistics, K.M. Institute of Hindi and Linguistics, Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Agra, India. 

Invited Talks 

1.  Kumari, Preeti & Chandni Dutta. (2024). Classifier Reduplication and Plurality in Maithili. GLiF Seminar. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. 

2.  Kumari, Preeti. (2024). Agreement in the CP Domain. IIT Delhi Generative Grammar Reading Group.

3.  Kumari, Preeti. (2023). Politeness in Pronouns: the Honorificity Feature. GLiF Seminar. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. 

4. Kumari, Preeti. Honorificity licensing and its repercussions in Maithili DPs. (2019). Conference on Syntax- semantics interface, SynSem@the4thPot. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.