Dissertation
My 2017 dissertation - Evidentiality and Questions: Bangla at the Interfaces - has two central foci: (i) it examines the behavioral contrasts of perspective- sensitive elements such as evidentials in questions and assertions; (ii) it investigates the connection between alternative questions and the clausal disjunction-embedder whether. The overall theme of the dissertation is an exploration into the interaction of questions and doxastic domains, set within formal syntactic, semantic and pragmatic theories.
Publications and Manuscripts
- Evidentials
To Appear in D. Altshuler (ed.), Linguistics Meets Philosophy, Cambridge University Press
- Evidentials are syntax-sensitive: the view from Bangla
Accepted in Glossa
- Flipping Evidentials
Under Review in Journal of Semantics [email me for a draft]
- Questioning speech acts
with Jess Law and Haoze Li
To Appear in the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22
- Evidentials come in two shapes
To Appear in the Proceedings of the 48th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society
- 2016. Uttering evidentials without evidence
Proceedings of ConSOLE XXIV
- 2016. Bangla Negative Polarity Items: A Detailed Study
with Bidisha Bhattacharjee, Madhumanti Datta and Yangchen Roy
Indian Linguistics
- In prep. Epistemic Modals, Attitudes and Questions
- 2014. The syntax of question particles in Manipuri Wh-questions
Second Qualifying Paper, Rutgers University [email me for a draft]
- 2011. Participials, 'Wala', Unaccusativity and Unergativity in Dhundari
Masters' thesis, Jawaharlal Nehru University [email me for a draft]
Invited Talks
Refereed Presentations
- 2018. Embedded Alternatives and Alternative Questions
FASAL 8, Wichita State University
- 2017. Questioning speech acts
with Haoze Li and Jess Law
talk, Sinn und Bedeutung 22, ZAS Berlin
- 2017. Evidentials come in two shapes
poster, NELS 48, University of Iceland
- 2017. Questioning speech acts
with Haoze Li and Jess Law
talk, NELS 48, University of Iceland
- 2017. Evidentials in Biased Questions
poster, PLC 41, University of Pennsylvania
- 2017. Evidentiality, Bias, and Questions
talk, Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL)-7, MIT
- 2016. To Flip or Not to Flip: Evidentials in Interrogatives
talk, Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA)-3, University of Tubingen
- 2016. Accessing non-accessible content: The case of the Bangla 'nishchoi'
talk, ConSOLE XXIV, University of York
- 2015. One Modal can Affect the Presupposition of Another
poster, 2nd UCL Graduate Conference in Linguistics, University College London
- 2015. The syntax of question particles in Manipuri Wh-questions
poster, Formal Approaches to South-Asian Languages (FASAL)-5, Yale
- 2013. Bangla biased questions with 'naki'
MACSIM, University of Maryland.
- 2013. The semantics of epistemic bias in Bangla 'naki' questions
talk, Formal Approaches to South-Asian Languages (FASAL)-3, USC
- 2012. Restricted Null Object parameter and V-stranding VPE in Bangla
talk, South Asian Languages: Theory, Typology, and Diachrony, Yale
- 2011. Reduplication in Bangla
talk, South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA)-29, CIIL Mysore
- 2011. Grammatical Aspect and Reduplication in Bangla
talk, Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI)-5, University of Hyderabad
- 2010. A Comparative Study of Bangla and Assamese Classifier Systems
with Madri Kakoti
talk, Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI)-4, University of Mumbai