October 2023. With Magdalena Covarrubias and Catherine Lee. Movement in the Rapa Nui DP. Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 30.

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May 2023. with Catherine Lee. Cross-linguistic variation in nominal licensing: DOM in Kodava takk. The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 36, UC Santa Cruz.

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May 2023. Invited Talk at USC S-Side Story. DOM in Kodava takk: empirical generalizations and theoretical consequences. 

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April 2023. with Catherine Lee. Cross-linguistic variation in nominal licensing: DOM in Kodava takk. The Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

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March 2023. with Catherine Lee. Differential Object Marking in Kodava takk: a complex interaction between multiple factors. (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 13.

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June 2022. with Aly Turrell. Negation in Nduindui: underlying structures & movements. Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 29.

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May 2021. with John Middleton. Revisiting T-to-C movement in Polynesian: an argument for a finer left periphery. Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 28. 

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May 2021. with Amelia Scharting. Multiple Auxiliaries and V->T movement in Madurese. International Symposium on Languages of Java 8.

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May 2021. with Karen McNairney. The distribution of yes/no particles in Madurese. International Symposium on Languages of Java 8.

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May 2021. with John Middleton. Madurese reflexive pronouns in subject position: neither logophors nor anaphors? International Symposium on Languages of Java 8.

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May 2021. with John Middleton. Understanding Madurese Sluicing, and what [it is not]. International Symposium on Languages of Java 8. 

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March 2021. with Ksenia Bogomolets. Negation and Agreement in Coorgi. (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 11. 

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November 2020. Invited Talk at The English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. Topic: Sluicing in wh-in-situ languages: two case-studies.

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November 2020. Invited Talk at BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Topic: An Overview of Elements and Structures inside the Nominal Unit.

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July, 2019. A simple solution to complex patterns in the Madurese DP: revisiting Davies and Dresser 2005. The 7th International Symposium on the Languages of Java, Banyuwangi, Java, Indonesia.

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May, 2018, with Brian Hsu. Co-occurence of non-article determiners as a window on variation in DP-structure. Cambridge Comparative Syntax 7, Cambridge, UK.

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April, 2018. with Brian Hsu. Variation in the co-occurrence of indexical elements: Evidence for split indexical projections in DPs. The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 36, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.

 

Jan 2018, with Brian Hsu. Cross-linguistic evidence for Split Indexical Projections. The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City.

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Jan 2018, with Ksenia Bogomolets. The curios case of the polar particle in Kyrgyz. The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City. (withdrawn because of unforeseen circumstances resulting in the inability to travel)

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March 2017. with Bhamati Dash. Kya high ki low? An investigation of the yes/no particle in Hindi, Bangla, and Odia. Formal Approaches to South Asian Linguistics (FASAL) 7, MIT. 

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Feb 2017. with Bhamati Dash. A unified account of the yes/no particle in Hindi, Bangla, and Odia. GLOW in Asia XI, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 

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Jan 2017. Genitive-marked arguments of the noun: their hieararchy, nature and linear relation in Bengali. The 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Austin.

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Dec 2016. With Andrew Simpson. The complex phasal architecture of nominal constituents. Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics 9, Brussels, Belgium. 

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2016. With Andrew Simpson. On the status of DP in Bangla nominal phrases. CLS 52, University of Chicago. 

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2016. With Andrew Simpson. On the existence of DPs and biphasal nominals in Bangla. WCCFL 34, University of Utah. 

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2016. With Andrew Simpson. On the NP/DP parameter in Bangla. Formal Approaches to South Asian Linguistics (FASAL) 6, UMASS. 

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2015. Definiteness in terms of Identifiability and Inclusiveness. CLS 51, University of Chicago. 

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2015. Why two is not six: is there a lexical distinction between lower and higher numerals in Bangla? Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) 5, Yale University. 

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2015. Decomposing Definiteness: arguments for a split-D domain in Bangla. WCCFL33, Simon Fraser University, Canada. 

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2014. With Elena Guerzoni. A compositional approach to M-possessives: a view from Bangla. GLOWinAsia X, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. 

 

2014. Focus-movement as last resort: evidence from Bangla. CLS 50, University of Chicago.

2014. Focus-movement within the DP: Bangla as a novel case. WCCFL 32, University of Southern California.

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2013. The semantics of –r in Bangla. Poster presentation, Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) 3, USC.

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2012. DP-internal Topic and Focus. Poster presentation, GLOW in Asia IX, MIE University, Japan.

2012. The syntax of I- and M-genitives in Bangla. Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) 2, MIT.

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2011. With Andrew Simpson. Finiteness, negation, and the directionality of headedness in Bangla. Finiteness in South Asian Languages (FiSAL). University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway.

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2011. Classification of the light verbs in Bangla. Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) 1, UMASS.

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2009. Light Verbs, Order and Intervention in Bangla.  Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI) 3, 2009, Jawaharlal Nehru University,Delhi, India