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. 

• 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. 

Articles & Reviews 

• Preeti Kumari, Pritha Chandra and Miok Pak. 2025. '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, Roberta D'Alessandro and Michael Putnam. 2025. 'Ethical concerns for theoretical research in Linguistics:  Issues and Best Practices'. Linguistics: Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences. Mouton de gruyter.

• Banerjee, Arka and Pritha Chandra. 2024. 'Economy Constraints on Phrasal Causatives'. in Victor Junnan Pan et al (eds). Proceedings of the 14th Generative Linguistics of the Old World in Asia. Hongkong University.

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

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

• 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/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.