Selected Papers (see CV for full list)
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In Prep The syntax of perspectival anaphora in Dravidian. The Oxford Handbook of Dravidian Language
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In Prep On the interaction between allocutivity & indexical shift (with Thomas McFadden).
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Under review On the nature of cross linguistic variation: a case study with respect to anaphora (with Thomas McFadden & Hedde Zeijlstra).
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Under review The syntactic limits of probe-goal (a)symmetries (with Hedde Zeijlstra). Submitted to Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism.
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Under review An alternative model of indexical shift: variation & selection without context-overwriting.
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To Appear. Unifying species of C-agreement (with Thomas McFadden), Proceedings of NELS 51.
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2021 Shifty attitudes: indexical shift vs. perspectival anaphora. Annual Review of Linguistics, Vol. 7.
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2021 Proxy Control: Extending the typology of control in language (with Aaron Doliana). Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
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2020 Distinct featural classes of anaphor in an enriched person system”. Agree to Agree: Agreement in the Minimalist Programme: 425–461. Eds. Katharina Hartmann, Johannes Mursell and Peter W. Smith. Open Generative Syntax series. Language Science Press, Berlin. [PDF]
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2018. Perspective is syntactic: evidence from anaphora. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3(1): 128. 1-40, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.81 [PDF]
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2018 Reducing PRO and pro to a single source” (with Thomas McFadden). The Linguistic Review 35 (3, GLOW Issue): 463-518. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2018-0003. [PDF]
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2018 What the EPP and comp-trace effects have in common: Constraining silent elements at the edge” (with Thomas McFadden). Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1), 43. 1-34. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.419. [PDF]
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2017 The articulated v layer: evidence from Tamil. (with Thomas McFadden). The Verbal Domain: 153- 178. Eds. Roberta d’Alessandro, Ángel Gallego, and Irene Franco. Oxford University Press. [PDF]
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2016 Anaphora vs. agreement: a new kind of Anaphor Agreement Effect in Tamil. The Impact of Pronominal Form on Interpretation: 77-106. Eds. Patrick Grosz and Pritty Patel-Grosz. Studies in Generative Grammar, de Gruyter, Mouton. [preprint, PDF]
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2016 Perspectival reflexivity and the kol morpheme. Proceedings of Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) 5: 123-142. [PDF]
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2014 Making sense of silence: Finiteness and the OC PRO vs. pro distinction. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 32: 59-85. [preprint, PDF]
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2014 Finiteness in South Asian Languages: an introduction (with Thomas McFadden). Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 32:1-27. [preprint, PDF]
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2011 A phase-based account of the PRO/anaphor distinction. Proceedings of ConSOLE XVIII. [PDF]
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2009 DP distribution and finiteness in Tamil and other languages: selection vs. Case” (with Thomas McFadden). Journal of South Asian Linguistics 2:5-34. [PDF]
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2006 Verbal alternations in Tamil: a non-derivational approach. Proceedings of WCCFL 25: 390-398. [PDF]