Publications/Proceedings


(i)  'Non-canonical nominative case assignment' (2022) in the Bulletin of the Department of Linguistics, Calcutta University [ISSN 2310-6165] (to appear).

(iv) ‘Case Stacking in Indo-Aryan languages’ (2021) (with Chandni Dutta) in Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics. pp. 30-49. Kashmir University Press 

(ii) Optionality and Referentiality’ (2021) in the Proceedings of the North-West Linguistics Conference: Working papers in Linguistics (UBCWPL). pp. 1-15. Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL

(iv) ‘Why case’ (2021) in the Proceeding of International Conference on Communication, Computation and Cognition (Jadavpur Journal of Language and Linguistics). pp. 86-100

(vi) 'Number and Gender in Kishtwari: a Morphological Study' (2017) (co-authored), in Literary Herald 3:1. ISSN: 2454:3365. pp. 352-359

(v) 'Graph Theoretic interpretation of Bangla traditional grammar' (2016) (co-authored) in the Proceedings of the 13th International conference on Natural Language Processing, 2016 (ICON) at IIT, BHU, (ACL anthology). pp. 129-136.

Select Presentations/ Workshops


2023| “Grammaticalization and phi-features”. AG7 “Economy, routine and creativity in syntactic change”.  the 45th Annual Conference of the DGfS-Conference “Linguistic creativity and routine” at Cologne, Germany (8-10th March)


2022 | “Ergativity Loss in Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages”. (poster) Third AMC Symposium: Change in Syntax and Phonology. University of Edinburgh, UK. (5-7th December)


2022 | “Plural inflection in a classifier language? the case of ‘-Te’ inflection in Bangla” (co-authored). Flexible and Multiple Plural Marking in Language Contact and Creolization: Social and Situational Correlates at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Berlin. (28-29th November)


2022 | “Nominative case change in Indo-Aryan diachrony”. 36th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable and 43rd Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal joint international conference at Madan Bhandari Memorial College, Kathmandu. (26-29th November)


2022 | “Genitive Case Assignment in Bangla subjects”. (co-authored and poster) 36th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable and 43rd Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal joint international conference at Madan Bhandari Memorial College, Kathmandu. (26-29th November)


2022 | “Case and aspect in Bangla non-finite conditional”.  International Conference on Tense and Aspect in Conditionals at National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris, France. (2-4th November)


2022 | “Case change and Features”. 18th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (WOSSP 2022) at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. (20-21st October)