Sandhya Sundaresan
I am an Assistant Professor & the Anandavalli & Dr. G. Swaminathan Endowed Research Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University.
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My research program explores two broad questions:
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For a given grammatical phenomenon, what is the nature of interaction and division of labor between syntax and its interfaces with morphology and semantics, within a modular grammar?
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What can dialectal and crosslinguistic variation tell us about how a given phenomenon should be syntactically modelled?
At a glance
Research
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Under review. On the grammar of allocutivity and indexical shift (with Thomas McFadden).
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Journal article (under review). A new theory of indexical shift. [draft, PDF]
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Edited volume (To Appear). Glossa: The Grammar of Agree(ment) and Reference (with Hedde Zeijlstra).
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Handbook article (in prep): "Perspectival anaphora in Dravidian". Oxford Handbook of Dravidian Languages.
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Monograph (in prep). The Syntax of Perspectival Anaphora, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, OUP.
Teaching (Spring 2023, Office hours: T/Th 1-2.30pm):
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LIN 431: Structure of an uncommonly taught language (Tamil), co-taught with Thomas McFadden
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LIN 621: Syntax II
Upcoming invited talks & guest teaching:
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April 2023. TBD. NYU Syntax Brown Bag Speaker Series.
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September 2023. TBD. Morphology as Syntax Workshop (MaS3). University of Montreal, Canada.
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Summer 2024. 1 week course on Agree(ment), DGFS Summer School. University of Goettingen. Germany.