Sandhya Sundaresan. Linguist.

 

I am a syntactician and fieldworker. One of the languages I focus on is Tamil, a Non-IndoEuropean language of the Dravidian family, which I also speak natively. 

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Curriculum Vitae (August 2020)

 

 

Ongoing Research: 

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• Monograph (under contract). The Syntax of Perspectival Anaphora, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, OUP. 

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• Journal article (under review). A new theory of indexical shift. [draft, PDF]​​​

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• Handbook article (invited, in prep). Probes & Goals. Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism. CUP.

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• Journal article (in prep). “The AAE and its consequences for the syntax of agreement and anaphora” (with Hedde Zeijlstra). Glossa Special Collection: The Grammar of Agree(ment) and Reference.

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• Edited volume (in prep). Glossa Special Collection: The Grammar of Agree(ment) and Reference (with Hedde Zeijlstra).

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•  Journal article (in prep). "Unifying species of complementizer agreement" (with Thomas McFadden). 

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• Research collaboration (in prep). Selective opacity and selectional asymmetries,  with Thomas McFadden,  Robert Truswell & Hedde Zeijlstra. [University of Cambridge, Guest-Course Slides, PDF]. 

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• Research collaboration (in prep). Anaphor Agreement Effect (phase II), with Hedde Zeijlstra. ​

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Recent & Upcoming Papers: ​

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• Survey Article (invited, To Appear (2021)). Shifty attitudes: indexical shift vs. perspectival anaphora. Annual Review of Linguistics. Vol. 7. [draft, PDF] ​

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• Journal article (accepted). Proxy Control: a new species of control in grammar ​(with Aaron Doliana). NLLT. 
  
  
   

Recent & Upcoming Presentations: ​

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• Flash Talk (November 6, 2020): Unifying species of C agreement (with Thomas McFadden). NELS 51, UQAM, Montreal. [Abstract: PDF; Slides: soon!]

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• Invited Discussant (December 3, 2020): Flash-mob discussion on anaphora (with Eric Reuland). Linguistics Flash-Mobs. Epic battles in history.

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• Keynote Talk (December 10-11, 2020):  TBD. Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles (WASSAP5).  Research Center on Basque Language (IKER), CNRS.  Bayonne, Basque Country. 

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• Keynote Talk (May 6-8, 2021): TBD. 57th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 57). University of Chicago. 

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I received my Ph.D. in 2013, jointly from the University of Tromsø and the University of Stuttgart. From October 2013- early January 2020,  I worked as Assistant  Professor (Juniorprofessorin)  in Syntax at the University of Leipzig. I live in Berlin, but travel to India whenever I can.

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You can reach me at:  sandhya@sndrsn.org                                                                                                                

​   My research program explores two broad questions: 

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1. 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?

2. What can dialectal and crosslinguistic variation tell us about how a given phenomenon should be syntactically modelled?