Publications 

Books/Volumes (Authored/Edited)

• Chandra, Pritha. (ed.). 2023. Variation in South Asian Languages: From Macro to Micro Differences. Singapore: Springer Nature. 

• Chandra, Pritha and Richa Shristi (eds.) 2014. The Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian Languages. Netherlands: John Benjamins. 

• Chandra, Pritha. 2011. (Dis)Agree: Agreement Mechanisms Explored. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

Book Chapters, Journal Articles, Reviews & Proceeding Papers

• Preeti Kumari, Pritha Chandra and Miok Pak. Forthcoming. 'Allocutive and Object Agreement Complementarity: The FinP in Maithili' In Yağmur Kiper, Larry Lyu, Richard Wang, and Niko Webster (eds.) Proceedings of the West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics 41. Cascadilla Press. 
  
  

• Chandra, Pritha. 2023. ‘Introducing Language Variation’ in Chandra, Pritha. (ed.) Variation in South Asian Languages: From Macro to Micro Differences, Springer Nature. 

• Chandra, Pritha. 2023. ‘Gender Micro-variation’ in Chandra, P. (ed.) Variation in South Asian Languages: From Macro to Micro Differences. Springer Nature. 

• Dutta, Chandni, Pritha Chandra, and Preeti Kumari. 2023. ‘Plural inflection in a classifier language.’ Proceedings of Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics. (Concurrently to be published in MIT Working Papers).
  
  

• Chandra, Pritha. 2023. ‘Language Evolution: Theories and Evidence’ In Rajesh Kumar et al (eds.). Language Studies in India: Cognition, Structure and Variation. Springer Nature.
  
  

• Chandra, Pritha, Miok Pak and Preeti Kumari. 2021. ‘3rd person is person too: Evidence from honorific constructions’ In Tae Sik Kim and Suyoung Bae (eds) A comparative approach to the syntax-semantic interface: Proceedings of Seoul International Conference of Generative Grammar.

• Chandra, Pritha., Gurmeet Kaur and Anindita Sahoo. 2021. ‘Non-active voices in South Asian languages’ In Kleanthes Grohmann, Akemi Matsuya and Eva-Maria Remberger (eds) Passives. Netherlands: Leiden: Brill. 

• Chandra, Pritha. and Gurmeet 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.

• Chandra, Pritha. 2019. Remarks on ‘On Linguistic history and language diversity in India: Views and counter-views by Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi’. Special Issue of the Journal of Biosciences, Indian Academy of Sciences. Springer.  

• Chandra, Pritha. 2019. ‘Urdu: A Minority Language?’ In Rajesh Kumar and Om. Prakash (eds.). Language Identity and Contemporary Society, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

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

• Chandra, Pritha, Gurmeet Kaur and Usha Udaar. 2017. ‘Optional Ergativity with Unergatives in Punjabi’. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics17:2.

• Chandra, Pritha and Gurmeet Kaur. 2017. ‘Differential Subject Marking and Person Licensing Condition’. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 43.1. National Taiwan Normal University. Published by John Benjamins from 2019. 

• Chandra, Pritha. 2016. ‘Feature-values and the expression of variation.’ In Anna Maria di Sciullo (ed.). Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty. Netherlands: John Benjamins. 

• Chandra, Pritha and Gurmeet Kaur. 2016. ‘The Perfect Nominative’.  In M. Menon and S. Syed (eds) FASAL 6 Proceedings. Journal of South Asian Languages. In University of Konstanz https://ojs.ub.unikonstanz.de/jsal/index.php/fasal/issue/view/1

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

• Chandra, Pritha and Anindita Sahoo. 2015. ‘Ditransitive Active-passives in Malayalam’ International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics. 

• Chandra, Pritha and Anindita Sahoo. 2014. ‘Learning Puzzles with Indian English Tags’. Language and Language Teaching, Azim Premji University and Vidya Bhavan Society, Vol 3.2. 

• Udaar, Usha, Gurmeet Kaur and Pritha Chandra. 2014. ‘Revisiting Morphological Ergativity in Hindi-Urdu’. Acta Linguistica Vol. 8: 1. Eurasia Publishing House. 

• Chandra, Pritha and Richa Shristi. 2014. ‘The Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Some Issues’. In P. Chandra and R. Shristi (eds.) The Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian Languages. Netherlands: John Benjamins. 

• Chandra, Pritha. 2014. ‘Middles in the Syntax’. In Chandra, P and R. Shristi (eds.) The Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian Languages. Netherlands: John Benjamins. 

• Chandra, Pritha. 2014. ‘English Language Teaching in Indian Madrasas: Accommodation Or Complicity?’ In Proceedings of the 7th Free Linguistics Conference, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  

• Chandra, Pritha. and Anindita Sahoo. 2013. ‘Passives in South Asian Languages’. Acta Linguistica Asiatica. Vol 3:1. 9-28, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.

• Chandra, Pritha. 2013. 'Hindi as L2/L3: Language Assessment in Schools'. In A.J. Kunnan (ed.) The Companion to Language Assessment, Vol. 4. Massachusetts: Wiley- Blackwell.  

• Chandra, Pritha 2013. Review of Lydia White. Language and Language Teaching. Vol. 2:1, 62-64. Azim Premji University and Vidya Bhavan Society.

• Chandra, Pritha and Rajesh Kumar. 2013. ‘Urdu Possession: An instance of Ezafe.’ Indian Linguistics. 74 (3-4). 101-109.

• Chandra, Pritha and Rajesh Kumar. 2012. ‘Alienable/Inalienable Possession: From Syntax to Semantics’, Indian Linguistics. Vol 73 (1-4): 35-45.

• Chandra, Pritha. 2011. 'Redundant Agreement, Phases and Memory'. In R. K. Mishra & N. Srinivasan (eds.). Language-Cognition Interface: State of the Art. Munich: Lincom Europa.

• Chandra, Pritha. 2011. 'Left Dislocation in Hindi-Urdu: Movement or Construal?' In O. N. Koul (ed). Indo-Aryan Linguistics. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.  

• Chandra, Pritha and Anindita Sahoo. 2010. 'Gradience in Oriya Ditransitives and Morphological Specificities', AICL Pre-conference Proceedings, Lucknow University.     

• Chandra, Pritha. 2009. 'Tense Dependency and A-movement Reconstruction' In Khuong, Richa and Sinha (ed.) The Fifth Asian GLOW: Conference Proceedings (2005), CIIL, Mysore and FOSSIL.

• Chandra, Pritha. 2009. 'Intervention Effects in Agreement: Comparing Hindi-Urdu with Tsez'. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Vol. 42: 2/2006 (pp: 169-182)

• Chandra, Pritha. 2008. Review of Carruthers, P (2006), The Architecture of the Mind. Oxford University Press. Minds and Machines. 18(1): 133-139, Springer.

• Chandra, Pritha. and Atakan Ince. 2008. 'Genitive Subject Induced Derivational Islands' In Proceedings of the 38th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS), USA.

• Chandra, Pritha. and Shiti Malhotra. 2007. 'A short note on wh-scope marking' In University of Maryland Working Papers 16, University of Maryland, College Park. 

• Chandra, Pritha. 2007. 'Tsez Long Distance Agreement: A Reappraisal' In University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics 15, University of Maryland, College Park.

• Chandra, Pritha. 2007. Review of Dabrowska, Ewa (2004) Language, Mind and Brain: Some Psychological and Neurological Constraints on Theories of Grammar. Edinburgh University Press. Cognitive Systems Research  8(1): 53-56, Elsevier.

• Chandra, Pritha. 2007. Review of K. Wali’s Marathi: A Study of Comparative South-Asian Languages. South Asian Language Review, Indian Institute of Language Studies, Vol. XVII: 1.

• Chandra, Pritha. 2006. Review of Gentner, Dedre and Susan Goldin-Meadow (eds.) (2003) Language in Mind: Advances in the study of language and thought. Cambridge, MA: the MIT Press. Minds and Machines 16(2): 225-230, Springer.

• Rus, Dominik and Pritha Chandra. 2006. 'Child Slovenian Imperatives: Root Infinitive Analogues?' Adriana Belletti, Elisa Bennati, Cristiano Chesi, Elisa Di Domenico, and Ida Ferrari (eds), Language Acquisition and Development, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

• Rus, Dominik and Pritha Chandra. 2006. 'Child Language Imperatives: Questioning the 'Imperative as an RI-analogue' Hypothesis' In David Bamman, Tatiana Magnitskaia & Colleen Zaller (eds) Proceedings of the 30th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Massachusetts: Cascadilla Press.

• Rus, Dominik and Pritha Chandra. 2005. 'Bare Participles are not Root Infinites: Evidence from Early Child Slovenian' In Alejna Brugos, Manuella R Clark-Cotton & Seungwan Ha (eds) Proceedings of the 29th annual Boston University Conference of Language Development (BUCLD), Massachusetts: Cascadilla Press.

• Chandra, Pritha. 2004. 'Case-Theta Role Relation in Kurux: Critical Analysis of the Classical Theory.' In Omkar N. Koul and Imtiaz Hasnain (eds) Linguistics: Theoretical & Applied (A Festschrift for Ruqiaya Hasan). Indian Institute of Language Studies, New Delhi. 

• Chandra, Pritha. 2002. Case-Theta Role Relation in Kurux: Critical Analysis of the Classical Theory. South Asian Language Review Vol. XII, No. 1&2., IILS.

• Chandra, Pritha. 2002. Review of Jackendoff, Ray (2002) Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution.Oxford University Press. Linguist List 13.1241

• Chandra, Pritha. 2001. Review of Singleton, David (2000) Language and the Lexicon: An Introduction. Arnold Publishers. Linguist List 12.2761.

• Gupta, R.S. and Pritha Chandra. 2001.'Language Maintenance and Shift: Some Basic Questions in the Context of Kurux'. In Omkar N. Koul and P. Umarani (eds) Sociolinguistics and Language Education (A Festschrift for Dr. D.P. Pattanayak). Creative, New Delhi.

• Gupta, R.S. and P. Chandra, 1999. Language Maintenance and Shift: Some Basic Questions in the Context of Kurux. South Asian Language Review Vol. IX, No. 1&2, IILS. 

Working Papers, Technical Reports and Workshop Proceedings

• Chandra, Pritha. 2020. Report of the Workshop on Approaches to Language Variation. Submitted to the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. 

• Chandra, Pritha. 2019. Report on Braj: Microvariation and Grammar Change in Hindi ‘dialect. Submitted to the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. 

• Chandra, Pritha, Tomohiro Fujii, Usama Soltan and Masaya Yoshida (eds.) 2004. University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics (UMWPIL) 13, University of Maryland, College Park.