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In Progress

• Jointly with Siddharth Misra. Negation in Magahi. Chapter for a volume on negation in Modern Indian languages.
• Pronominal System in Magahi. Chapter for a volume on The Pronominal Systems of the South Asian Languages.

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

2026

• Jointly with Ojaswee Bhalla. Allocutivity and the Syntax of Honorifics. Annual Review of Linguistics, Vol. 12. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-linguistics-041124-105611

2022

• Jointly with Bill Haddican. The formal heterogeneity of allocutivity. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). pp. 1–41. DOI: 10.16995/glossa.7670
• Jointly with Mark Baker. Person and honorification: Features and interactions in Magahi. Glossa 7(1). pp. 1–35. DOI: 10.16995/glossa.7675

2021

• Morphosyntax of Magahi Addressee Agreement. Syntax 24(3). pp. 263–296. DOI: 10.1111/synt.12213
• Jointly with Troy Messick. Stripping in Hindi: Does clause size matter? In Laszakovits & Shen (eds.), The size of things I: Structure building, pp. 247–263. Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5524296

2020

• Asymmetry in splitting of subject and object in Hindi and Magahi. Indian Linguistics 81(3–4). pp. 53–75.

2019

• Jointly with Atul Kr. Ojha and Sriniket Kumar Mishra. A corpus-based study of semantics of bare nominals in Magahi and Bhojpuri: The case of article-less languages. Linguistic Ecology of Bihar. Europa Publisher.

2017

• Jointly with Veneeta Dayal. Scope Marking at the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Oxford Research Encyclopedia.

2014

• The morpho-syntax of Nominal Particle -wa. Indian Linguistics 75(3–4), pp. 39–44. ISSN: 0378-0759.
• Magahi Nominal Particle -wa. Indian Linguistics 75(1–2), pp. 69–74. ISSN: 0378-0759.

Unpublished Manuscript

• 2018. Jointly with Mark Baker. On the Mechanics (Syntax) of Indexical Shift: Evidence from Allocutive Agreement in Magahi. Ms., Rutgers University.

Proceedings

• 2025. Jointly with Ojaswee Bhalla. The Hindi Discourse particle ji:, Honorificity and the Form-Meaning Interaction. In Proceedings of SICOGG-27, pp. 21–30. Korea Generative Grammar Circle, South Korea.
• 2025. Jointly with Ojaswee Bhalla. Re-visiting honorification in Hindi and the discourse particle ji. In Proceedings of FASAL-15, UT Austin.
• 2024. Jointly with Sourabrata Mukherjee, Atul Kr. Ojha, Akanksha Bansal, John P. McCrae, Ondřej Dušek. Multilingual text style transfer: Datasets & models for Indian languages. arXiv:2405.20805.
• 2022. Jointly with Pritha Majumdar, Akanksha Bansal, Atul Kr. Ojha, John Philip McCrae. Bengali and Magahi PUD treebank and Parser. Proceedings of WILDRE-6, LREC 2022, Marseille.
• 2021. The Syntax of Magahi Addressee Agreement. In Alok & Raghotham (eds.), Proceedings of FASAL-9, pp. 1–13.
• 2021. Jointly with Mohit Raj, Shyam Ratan, Ritesh Kumar & Atul Kr. Ojha. Developing Universal Dependencies Treebanks for Magahi and Braj. Proceedings of PAIL-2021, pp. 10–14.
• 2020. Jointly with Akanksha Bansal, Atul Kr. Ojha, Bornini Lahiri, Ritesh Kumar. KMI-Panlingua-IITKGP @SIGTYP2020: Exploring Rules and Hybrid Systems for Automatic Prediction of Typological Features. Proceedings of SIGTYP 2020, EMNLP.
• 2018. Jointly with Ritesh Kumar, Bornini Lahiri, Atul Kr. Ojha, Mayank Jain, Abdul Basit, Yogesh Dawar. Automatic Identification of Closely-related Indian Languages: Resources and Experiments. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation, LREC2018.
• 2016. The syntax of split: The case of Hindi and Magahi. In Menon & Syed (eds.), Proceedings of FASAL-6, pp. 53–61.
• 2013. Jointly with Bornini Lahiri and Ritesh Kumar. Bihari Hindi as a Mixed Language. Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Contact in India, Deccan College, pp. 199–208.
• 2012. Jointly with Bornini Lahiri and Ritesh Kumar. Developing a POS tagger for Magahi: A Comparative Study. Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, COLING, Mumbai.
• 2011. Jointly with Bornini Lahiri and Ritesh Kumar. Challenges in Developing LRs for Non-Scheduled Languages: A Case of Magahi. Proceedings of the 5th Language Technology Conference, Poznan, Poland, pp. 60–64.

Presentations

Invited Talks

• 2026. Discussant, Seminar on South Asian Syntax: In memory of Prof. Probal Dasgupta (1953–2026). Online, August 1, 2026.
• 2026. Allocutivity and the Syntax of Honorifics: Lessons for Syntax-Discourse Relations. Joint Seminar, GKNU Institute of Humanities and SMOG Syntax Circle, Korea, January 2026.
• 2025. Allocutivity and the Syntax of Honorifics. Linguistics Colloquium, IIT Delhi, March 25, 2025.
• 2025. Morpho-Syntax of Agreement. Online, Amity Institute of English Studies and Research, AUUP, Noida. March 24, 2025.
• 2024. The clause linker ki and the Negator in Hindi: Insight from Big Ellipsis. Workshop at ICON-2024, AU-KBC Chennai, December 19, 2024.
• 2024. Negation in Magahi. Round Table, Linguistic Traditions and Structure of Negation in Modern Indian Languages, IIT Madras, September 30 – October 1, 2024.
• 2024. Formalization of Agreement in Natural Language. Online, Dept. of Linguistics, Manipur University, June 10, 2024.
• 2022. Speaker and Addressee in Natural Language: Honorificity and Indexicality in Magahi. YJHD Lecture Series, JNU, June 2022.
• 2022. The discourse particle -waa in the Magahi nominal domain. Language Diversity, Linguistic Theory and Cultural Identity in South Asia, New Haven, CT, April 2022.
• 2019. Indexical Shift and Addressee Agreement: The Case of Magahi. NYU Syntax BB Talk, April 5, 2019.

Refereed Conference Presentations

• 2026. Jointly with Hariprasad Doley. Argument Structure in Mising: A Decompositional Analysis of Voice, Cause, and Applicatives. FASAL-16, University of South Carolina, USA.
• 2025. Jointly with Ojaswee Bhalla. Re-visiting honorification in Hindi and the discourse particle ji. FASAL-15, UT Austin.
• 2024. The Syntax and Semantics of Honorific Mismatches in Magahi. SALA-38, Nagaland University, Kohima, November 28–30.
• 2022. Jointly with Pritha Majumdar, Akanksha Bansal, Atul Kr. Ojha & John P. McCrae. Bengali and Magahi PUD Treebank and Parser. WILDRE-6 at LREC2022, Marseille.
• 2021. Jointly with Mohit Raj, Shyam Ratan, Ritesh Kumar & Atul Kr. Ojha. Developing Universal Dependencies Treebanks for Magahi and Braj. PAIL-2021, December 16–19. Online.
• 2021. Grammar of Honorification. Poster, WCCFL-39, University of Arizona, April 8–11. Online.
• 2021. Jointly with Bill Haddican. On some parameters of allocutive marking. CamCoS-9, February.
• 2021. Jointly with Mark Baker. Person and Honorification: Features and Interactions in Magahi. LSA Annual Meeting, January 7–10. Online.
• 2021. Jointly with Bill Haddican. Cross-linguistic differences in embedded/root asymmetries in allocutive marking. LSA Annual Meeting, January 7–10. Online.
• 2019. 2nd person pronoun bound by Hr: Evidence from Magahi Addressee Agreement. Poster, Workshop on Person and Perspective, Los Angeles, May 3–4.
• 2019. Morphosyntax of Magahi Addressee Agreement. FASAL-9, Portland, Oregon, March 16–17.
• 2019. Jointly with Mark Baker. On the Syntax of Addressee Agreement and Indexical Shift in Magahi. LSA Annual Meeting, New York, January 3–6.
• 2016. Jointly with Ritesh Kumar, Atul Kr. Ojha, Bornini Lahiri. Developing Resources and Tools for some Lesser-known Languages of India. Regional ICON 2016, IIT-BHU, Varanasi, December 16.
• 2016. The syntax of split: The case of Hindi and Magahi. FASAL-6, UMass Amherst, March 12–13.
• 2014. On two forms of Magahi nouns. FASAL-4, Rutgers University, March 29–30.
• 2013. Jointly with Mustafa Al-humari. Agreement and Feature Inheritance. Poster, Faculty of Language Design Interfaces, IIT Delhi, February 11–12.
• 2013. The morpho-syntax of Nominal Particle -wa. SCONLI-7, Aligarh Muslim University, February 8–10.
• 2012. Jointly with Sriniket Kumar Mishra. What do Indian Languages have: DP or NP? 18th Himalayan Languages Symposium, BHU, Varanasi, September 10–12.
• 2012. Magahi Spatial Postposition. SCONLI-6, BHU, Varanasi, February 17–19.
• 2011. Case in Magahi. Poster, Essex, England.
• 2011. Causative Construction in Magahi. SCONLI-3, JNU Delhi, February 19–20.
• 2008. Honorificity in Magahi. SCONLI-2, Delhi University, February 9–10.
• 2006. Jointly with Anil Thakur and Ravi Prakash. Some Socio-Psycho-Linguistic Aspects of Abusive Words in Hindi-Bhojpuri. 28th All India Conference of Linguists, BHU, November 2–4.

As Post Doctoral Supervisor

• Ojaswee Bhalla. 2024–2026. Honorification and particle ji in Hindi.

As Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor

• MD Abul Afzal Mubashshir. 2026. Syntax and Semantics of Noun Phrases (proposed title). Ongoing.
• Vansh. 2026. Information Structure in Hindi-Urdu (proposed title). Ongoing.
• Sharon Valui. 2025. The Morpho-Syntax of Tangkhul (proposed title). Ongoing.
• Ishita Agrawal. 2024. Hindi Multi-Word Expressions: Benchmark Revision, LLM Evaluation, and Multimodal Disambiguation (proposed title). Ongoing.
• Joynal Ali. 2024. Honorification in the Grammar: The Syntax of Discourse Participants and Honorificity in Karbi Hills (proposed title). Ongoing.
• Siddharth Misra. 2024. Split Constructions in Natural Language (proposed title). Ongoing.
• Sudipta Saha. 2024. The Architecture of Silence: Deriving Stripping, Verb-stranding Ellipsis and Sluicing in Bangla (proposed title). Ongoing.

As Doctoral Dissertation Internal Expert

• Sagar Boro
• Alokesh Majumder
• Gyandeep Chetia
• Pallab Basu
• Lugai Daphne Kamei

Doctoral Dissertation External Expert

• Sonal Sinha. 2023. Conjunct Agreement Hierarchy in Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages. Ongoing.

MSc. Cognitive Science Project Supervision

• Mojum Kamduk. 2026. Does Verb Agglutination Shape How We Segment Events? A Cross-Linguistic Study of Hindi and Galo.
• Chinmayee Mohapatra. 2026. Understanding Event Boundary in Hinglish.

• Upcoming Himalayan Languages Symposium, IIT Delhi, 30 October – 1 November 2026 (co-organizer).
• Linguistic Summer School in the Indian Mountains, IIT Delhi Sonipat Campus, 1–7 June 2026 (co-organizer).
• Discourse Particles in South Asian Languages, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, 22–23 December 2025 (convener).
• Workshop on "The Left Periphery of Interrogatives", IIT Delhi New Delhi, 12 July 2024 (co-organizer).

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