Talks, Presentations & Panels 

• 2025. Duality of semantics and the left periphery. Lecture at the CHAMP Summer School on the Syntax of Discourse. IIT Delhi.

• 2025. The Syntax of Politeness in Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages. Invited Talk at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 

• 2025. Language as a Cognitive System: Reflections on Nature and Mind. Invited lecture at 'Summer School on Mind, Brains and Machines', Krea University, India.
  
  

• 2025. Migration, Skill Complementarity and Linguistic Justice. Paper presentation at 'People on the Move' conference, BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus.
  
  

• 2025. Third Factor Principles-motivated Syntactic Doubling: Evidence from Heritage Tamil. Paper presentation with Madhusmitha V. at the 'Third Factor for Language Design: The view from Heritage Languages', University of Paris and CNRS.

• 2024. The Emergence of Politeness: Evidence from Dialects. Invited talk at the 'Rethinking Dialect Syntax Talks' (REEDSTALKS). Meersten Institute, Amsterdam.
  
  

• 2024. The role of Object Marking in Alignment Shift. Invited talk with Roberta D'Alessandroat the 'Lectures on Iranian Linguistics in Arizona'. University of Arizona.  

• 2024. Reference in Visual Language. Paper presentation with Subir Dey. Visual Language Conference. Tilburg University in the Netherlands. 

• 2024. Economy Constraints on Phrasal Causatives. Poster presentation with Arka Banerjee. GLOW in Asia Conference. Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

• 2024. Can Object Agreement Constraint be extended to Honorific Agreement? Paper presentation with Jana Willer-Gold. 'Charting Mechanisms and Processes Underlying Honorifics', Gottingen University. 

• 2024. Panelist. Building Inclusive AI in the era of LLMs. 7th International Conference on 'Data Science and Management of Data'. Indian Institute of Information Technology Bangalore. 

• 2024. Reference in Visual Language. Paper presentation with Subir Dey at the 'Visual Language' Conference. Tilburg University in the Netherlands. 

• 2024. Economy Constraints on Phrasal Causatives. Poster presentation with Arka Banerjee. GLOW in Asia Conference. Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

• 2024. Can Object Agreement Constraint be extended to Honorific Agreement? Paper presentation with Jana Willer-Gold. 'Charting Mechanisms and Processes Underlying Honorifics', Gottingen University. 

• 2023. NEP 2020 in Higher Education Institutions: From Policy to Practice. Invited Talk at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Delhi.
   

• 2023. Parameter Clustering in Bangla Dialects. Invited talk given at REEDS Workshop. Meertens Instituut. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

• 2023. The Visuality of Humour in the comics of Nonte-Fonte. Paper presentation with Subir Dey. DN29 Visiolinguistics: Panoramas of Languaging and Visuality. DiscourseNet and Open University, UK. 

• 2023. Allocutive and Object Agreement Complementarity. Paper presentation with Preeti Kumari and Miok Pak. West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 41, Santa Cruz, USA. 

• 2023. Honorificity Change and Loss in Maithili-Bangla Bilinguals, Paper presentation at the Purdue Linguistics Symposium, Purdue University, USA. 

• 2023. Reporting Honorifics from the field: The Rajbanshi-Bangla Bilinguals. Paper presentation with Andrew Nevins and Yasutada Sudo. Charting Mechanisms and Processes underlying Honorifics, University College London. 

• 2022. Ergativity, phi-agreement and alignment - When things start going Accusative. Invited talk with Roberta D’Alessandro at Morpho-Syn Syndicate. Penn State University. 

• 2022. Asymmetry in Possessor Agreement in Maithili.  Paper presentation with Preeti Kumari. Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) in Asia. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

• 2021. Plural Inflection in a classifier language. Paper presentation with Chandni Dutta and Preeti Kumari. 'Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics'. 

• 2021. 3rd person is person too: Evidence from honorific constructions. Paper presentation with Miok Pak and Preeti Kumari. 'Seoul International Conference of Generative Grammar'.

• 2020. What causes micro-variation in language? Invited talk given at University of Hyderabad, India. 

• 2020. Phi-features: A biolinguistic investigation. Invited talk given at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. 

• 2020. The Politics of Language Types & Linguistic Identities. Plenary Talk at the 'Conference on Indigenous Languages: Towards Sustainable Multilingualism'. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.

• 2020. 5-day Invited Lecture Series on Agreement in Indian Languages. Mumbai University.

• 2020. Linguistic Variation: Generation & Actualities. Invited talk given at the Workshop on Approaches to 'Language Variation 2: From Field to Theory'. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

• 2019. The form and function of Meiteilon nominalizers. Invited talk given at the 2nd International Workshop on 'noun modifying constructions and nominalization'. Deccan College, Pune and National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo. 

• 2019. Panelist on ‘Word and the World’, Invited by Syn Talk, Mumbai. Available at https://syntalk.wordpress.com/episodes/turn-six/twatw/

• 2019. Searching for the Dialectic in Language, In ‘Thinking like a Linguist Session 1’. Invited talk given at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

• 2019. Knowing the Limits of Language Sciences. Thinking like a Linguist Session 2’  Invited talk given at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. 

• 2019. Unraveling the Genotype of Language. Invited talk delivered at Hyderabad Central University. 

• 2019. The Science of Mind & Intelligence. Open House Lecture, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. 

• 2019. Optionality in Grammar. In ICSSR sponsored workshop on ‘Approaches to Language Variation’, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

• 2019. Plural Licensing & Meso-variation. Paper presentation with Preeti Kumari for a 'Workshop on Number and plurality: cross-linguistic variation in the nominal domain', University of Gottingen, Germany.

• 2018. Gender-induced categories and Cognition. Invited talk given at ‘Symposium on Linguistics across Disciplines.’ Dept. of Linguistics. Aligarh Muslim University. 

• 2018. Invited Participant in discussion meeting on ‘Human Diversity and Ancestry’, organized by the Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani and Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Research, Bangalore. Supported by the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore. 

• 2018. Proto-structures: Tracing People and Languages. Talk given at the Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani. 

• 2018. Hindi’ Ergativity: Constraining Optionality in Grammar.  Linguistic Microvariation. The IITD-Utrecht University jointly organized symposium (via skype). IITD/Utrecht Univ, New Delhi/Netherlands.  

• 2018. Macro Differences in Dialects. Paper presentation with Gurmeet Kaur at the Penn Linguistics Conference. University of Pennsylvania, USA. 

• 2018. Braj in the Ergativity Hierarchy. Poster presentation with Gurmeet Kaur. Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages. Wichita University, USA.

• 2017. Language evolution: A view from now-time. Invited Talk given at the ‘Seminar on Language Structure and Variation’. Indian Institute of Technology Madras. 

• 2017. Multi-layered Variation: Indo-Aryan Ergativity and its remnants. Invited Talk given at the ‘Seminar on Language Structure and Variation’. Indian Institute of Technology Madras. 

• 2017. On some passive strategies in natural language. Paper presentation with Anindita Sahoo and Gurmeet Kaur. International Conference of the Indian Society of Linguistics. Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar. 

• 2017. Realizing Gender. Paper presentation at Biolinguistic Conference on Interface Asymmetries. New York University. USA. 

• 2017. On Braj Ergativity: Person through the Ages. Paper presentation with Gurmeet Kaur at the 19th Diachronic Syntax Conference. University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

• 2016. Gender in Language: The I-/E-Language Distinction. Invited Talk given at the ‘Seminar on Applied Linguistics’. Indian Institute of Technology Madras. 

• 2016. An Ergativity Parameter in the Mind? Invited Talk given at the ‘Panel on Language Variation: Theoretical and Processing Perspectives’. National Brain Research Center- IIT Delhi workshop on Cognitive Science. 

• 2016. A Parameter Hiearchy for Indo-Aryan Ergativity. Paper presentation. Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference. University of Cambridge, UK. 

• 2016. The Perfect Nominative. Poster presentation with Gurmeet Kaur at Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 6. University of Massachusetts, USA. 

• 2016. Dialects and Structural Reallocation. Paper presentation. Seminar on Languages in Contact. Deccan College. Pune.

• 2015. Ergativity and the Macro/Microvariation Debate, Invited Talk given at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab. 

• 2015. On the nature of objects in Unergatives. Paper presentation with Gurmeet Kaur at the South Asian Languages Analysis. Lancaster University.  

• 2015. Agreement Variations without Uninterpretable Features. Paper presentation. What Drives Syntactic Computations: Alternatives to Formal Features. Leipzig, Germany.

• 2014. Variation in Internal Language. Invited Talk given at the Department of Linguistics, Kolkata University, India.. 

• 2014. Ergativity and the Macro/Microvariation Debate. Invited Talk given at the Department of Linguistics, Jadavpur University, India.

• 2014. A phase-based approach to Differential Subject Marking in Punjabi. Poster presentation with Gurmeet Kaur. Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) in Asia, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. 

• 2014. Two nominative cases in Punjabi?, Poster presentation with Gurmeet Kaur. Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 4. Rutgers University, USA.  

• 2014. Ergativity as Control?, Paper presentation with Gurmeet Kaur and Usha Udaar at South Asian Language Analysis 30. Hyderabad Central University, India.

• 2014. ‘Hit’and ‘Fall’ in Punjabi. Poster presentation with Gurmeet Kaur. International Conference for South Asian Languages 11. Banaras Hindu University, Banaras, India .

• 2013. Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Case and Agreement (with K. Choudhary, IIT Ropar). Talk given at the ‘Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Grammar’ at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. 

• 2013. Nepali Unergatives and Case Morphology, Paper presentation with Usha Udaar. 34th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Nepal. Kathmandu University, Nepal.

• 2013. English Language Teaching in Indian Madrasas: Accommodation or Complicity? Paper presentation. Free Linguistics Conference 2013, Hong Kong University.

• 2013. Split Ergativity in Punjabi: The case of defective heads and light verbs. Poster presentation with Gurmeet Kaur and Usha Udaar. Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 4. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA – originally accepted for paper presentation.

• 2012. Urdu Izafat. Invited Talk with Rajesh Kumar given at the ‘National Seminar on the Structure of Contemporary Urdu’ at the Dept. of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

• 2012. Indo-Aryan Ergativity: A Case of Syntactic Inertia. Poster presentation with Usha Udaar at the 14th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference. Lisbon, Portugal. 

• 2012. Passives or Anti-Causatives? Paper presentation. Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. 

• 2011. 4 Invited Guest Lectures at the Center for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

a. The Story of Recursion in Natural Language

              b. Minimal Phrase Markers

              c. Agreement, Phi-Features and Agree

              d. Agree and LDA

• 2011. Alienable/Inalienable Possession: Inquiries at the syntax-semantics interface. Invited Talk with Rajesh Kumar given at the ‘International Seminar on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Semantics’. Dept. of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University. 

• 2011. Scope Puzzles in Oriya Ditransitives. Paper presentation with Anindita Sahoo. South Asian Languages Analysis (SALA) 29. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India. 

• 2011. Passive: A Comparative Concept or a Descriptive Category?, Paper presentation with Anindita Sahoo. All India Conference of Linguists (AICL) 33. Chandigarh University, India. 

• 2010. Invited Response to Nirmalangshu Mukherjee's Paper on 'Reference and Singular Terms, at the ‘International Seminar of Language, Mathematics, Music and Society’ Vidya Bhavan Society, Udaipur. 

• 2010. To be or not to be: Error Analysis of Second Language Learners, Paper presentation with Anindita Sahoo and Seema Tandon. 9th International Conference of South Asian Languages, Patiala University. 

• 2010. Gradience in Ditransitives and Morphological Specificities. Paper presentation with Anindita Sahoo. All India Conference for Linguists 32 (AICL), Lucknow University.

• 2009. On Kluges, Agreement and Nature's Oddities. Talk given at the seminar on ‘Language-Cognition Interface: State of the Art’, Center for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Allahabad University. 

• 2009. Mind, Machines and Transformational Grammar. Invited Talk given at Delhi University.

• 2009. Innate Mind and Language Instincts. Invited Talk given at Delhi University.

• 2009. Yes-no questions: Probing the Structure of Indian English. Paper presentation with Anindita Sahoo at the All India Conference for Linguists 31 (AICL). University of Hyderabad.

• 2008. A Chomskyan Program for Semantics: Taking the ‘Middle’ Way. Invited Talk given at the ‘National Seminar on Chomsky’. Pondicherry University, India .

• 2008. Sentential Expletives inside Verb-Phrases, Paper presentation with Shiti Malhotra. Seminar on New Perspectives in Linguistics. Kashmir University, Srinagar.

• 2008. Movement out of ‘islands’: A Case of Finite Embedded Clause, Paper presentation with Shiti Malhotra. West Coast Conference in Linguistics (WECOL). University of California Davis, USA.

• 2008. Language and Computations: Modularity Revisited, Paper presented with C.A. Tomy. ‘Asia-Pacific Conference on Computations and Philosophy’ (AP-CAP). National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.  

• 2007. Genitive Islands and Sluicing in Hindi-Urdu, Poster presentation with Atakan Ince. West Coast Conference in Linguistics (WECOL). University of California, San Diego, USA. 

• 2007. Sluicing in the Underspecification/Overspecification Debate at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. 

• 2007.  Reflections on Minimal Syntax at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. 

• 2007. Genitive Subject Induced Derivational Islands, Paper presentation with Atakan Ince. ‘38th Meeting of the Northeast Linguistic Society (NELS). Ottawa, Canada.

• 2006. Intervention Effects in Agreement: Comparing Hindi-Urdu with Tsez. Paper presentation. ‘42nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society’, University of Chicago. USA

• 2006. Yet another approach to Hindi-Urdu wh-expletives, Paper presentation with Shiti Malhotra at the ‘South Asian Languages Analysis (SALA) 26, Kannada University, Mysore.

• 2005. Child Language Imperatives: Questioning the 'Imperative as an RI-analogue' Hypothesis, Paper presented (with Dominik Rus) at ‘Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 30’, Boston University, USA. 

• 2005. Hindi-Urdu Agreement Under Control, Paper presented at the ‘South Asian Languages Analysis (SALA) 25’, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. 

• 2005. Child Slovenian Imperatives: Root Infinitive Analogues?, Paper presentation with Dominik Rus. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA), Siena, Italy. 

• 2005. Tense Dependency and A-movement Reconstruction, Paper presentation. Generative Linguistics of the Old World (GLOW) in Asia 5. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

• 2005. Agree & Derivational Barriers, Paper presentation. Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting. Oakland, California, USA.

• 2004. On Hindi Left Dislocation & Successive Cyclic Movement, Paper presentation. South Asian Languages Analysis (SALA) 24, Stony Brook University, USA.

• 2004. Bare Participles are not Root Infinitives: Evidence from Early Child Slovenian, Paper presentation with Dominik Rus. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 29, Boston University, Boston, USA.

• 2002. Dative Subjects in Hindi, Paper presentation at the International Conference on the Architecture of Grammar, Jointly organized by Universiteit Leiden Centre for Linguistics (ULCL) & Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) in Hyderabad, India. 

• 1999. Logico-Syntactic Analysis of Case-Semantic Role Relationship, Paper presentation. ‘XXI All India Conference of Linguists (AICL). Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

• 1999. Complex Predicates and Argument Structure. Paper presentation. Dialogue: Forum for Academic Research. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.