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Recent and Ongoing Research ​​​

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• Monographs: 

  • Under Contract. The Syntax of Perspectival Anaphora, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, OUP. 

  • In Prep. A new theory of indexical shift. 

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• Peer-reviewed articles: 

  • 2025. Perspectival anaphora: A case study from Tamil. In R. Amritavalli and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Dravidian Languages. Oxford University Press. 

  • In Press/To Appear. The syntactic limits of probe-goal (a)symmetries (with Hedde Zeijlstra). In Kleanthes Grohmann and Evelina Leivada (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of the Minimalist Program. Cambridge University Press. 

  • In Press/To Appear. Allocutive agreement and indexicals Shift Together, but not always (with Thomas McFadden). Proceedings of WCCFL 43. 

  • To Appear. Toward a syntax of indexical shift. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society 61. 

  • To Appear. On the nature of crosslinguistic variation: Insights from anaphora (with Thomas McFadden & Hedde Zeijlstra). Constellations. 

  • Under review. Deriving assimilation and dissimilation in syntax: Phi vs. case. 

  • Under review. The ingredients of hyperraising: Insights from Tamil (with Daniel Greeson). [draft]

  • Under review. A unified rubric for varieties of C-agreement (with Thomas McFadden). 

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• Edited volumes:

  • To Appear. Glossa: The Grammar of Agree(ment) and Reference (with Hedde Zeijlstra).​

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• Grants: 

  • 2025-2026. $45,000. PI (with Co-PIs: Thomas McFadden & Owen Rambow). Project #: 1198371. Modelling Shifty Hierarchies In Formal Theory (SHIFT): Anchoring syntactic hierarchies in theory of mind. Award #: 93214. OVPR Seed Grant Program.​ Stony Brook University. ​

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Teaching (Fall 2025) 

Office hours: M: 3.30-5pm; W: 11.15am-12.45pm

• ​LIN 431 (MW: 9:30-10.50am): Structure of an uncommonly taught language (Sorani Kurdish)

• LIN 625 (MW: 2-3.20pm): Semantics I (graduate)

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Co-Organized Reading Groups

 

• ​​​​SynFL, Syntax meetings; every other M: 12.30-1.30pm

• SHIFT, Meetings related to shifty phenomena in syntax and cognitive modeling; every other M: 12.30-1.30pm

 

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Recent & Upcoming presentations ​

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• October 2025. ​Toward a syntax of indexical shift. Syntax and Morphology Circle (SMircle). Stanford University. (invited)

• November 2025. TBD. Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-Meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation. University of Göttingen, Germany. (invited)

• September 2026. TBD. South Asian Language Analysis (SALA) Roundtable 40. University of Bielefeld, Germany. (keynote)

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For more information, check out my CV. You can reach me at:  sandhya.sundaresan@stonybrook.edu