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?
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Ongoing 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 (under review). 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 (Fall 2022):
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This Fall, I'll be teaching a graduate syntax seminar on Topics in A-syntax. Check out the course website here.
Upcoming invited talks & guest teaching:
- October 21, 2022. Proxy control (joint work with Aaron Doliana). Arizona Linguistics Colloquium.
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November 3, 2022. Determining (away) indexical shift. Workshop on nominal determination: Form, Function & Else. Maceio, Brazil.
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Nov. 29-Dec. 2, 2022. MIT extended visit.
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Nov. 29-Dec.1. Modelling subset-superset relations in shifty variation. MIT Linguistics Mini-Course.
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Dec. 2. Reconciling replicative & non-replicative processes in syntax. MIT Linguistics Colloquium.
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April 2023. NYU Linguistics Syntax BrownBag.
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Spring 2023. TBD. Newcastle Language & Linguistics Visiting Speaker Series.
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Summer 2024. 1 week course on Agree(ment), DGFS Summer School. University of Goettingen. Germany.