List of Published Papers in Linguistics

1. Books
   1. Grammar of Tangkhul (jointly with Thangjam Hindustani Devi), CIIL Revisiting Grammar Series.
   2. Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 2005. Mouton. (Edited)
   3. Linguistic Theory and South-Asian Languages - Essay in honour of K.A. Jayaseelan. Edited by Bayer, Josef, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and M.T. Hany Babu; John Benjamins, Linguistik Aktuell Series (2007)
   4. Argument Structure edited by Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Eric Reuland and Giorgos Spathas; John Benjamins (2007)

2. Books under Preparation

   1. DP-internal NP Movement: evidence from a “Head-Final” Language (North Holland)
   2. Grammar of Mising (with Atreyee Sharma), CIIL Revisiting Grammar Series
   3. Grammar of Bhumij (with Kamal Chaudhary), CIIL Revisiting Grammar Series
3. Papers
   1. (forth) Sluicing in Indo-Aryan: An Investigation of Bangla and Hindi (with Andrew Simpson), in Sluicing edited by Jason Merchant, John Benjamins.
   2. (2007) Now you see it, now you don’t: Superiority and Sluicing in Bangla, in Argument Structure, John Benjamins
   3. (forth) With Eyes Wide Shut: Sharing as Freedom. Cognitive Science, eds Rama Kant Agnihotri and Tista Bagchi, Sage, Delhi. (Hindi)
   4. (forth) India not as a Linguistic Area: An insight from Minimalism. In Emeneu Centenary Celebration Volume, CIIL, Mysore.
   5. (2008) There is a flower on the table. In Bangla Linguistics edited by Niladri Dash and Pabitra Sarkar, Toddler Publications, Calcutta.
   6. (2008) Auxiliary Selection and Aspect in Bangla. 25th Special volume of Indian Journal of Linguistics.
   7. (2006) Seeking Alternative Truths: A Postmodern Reading of Minimalism. Alochona Chakra (Special issue on Chomsky)
   8. (forth) Review of Consequences of Antisymmetry: Headed Relative Clauses by Valentina Bianchi, in Language
   9. (forth) Review of Syntactic Structures Revisited by Howard Lasnik, in Language
   10. 2006 Butterpillar or Caterfly? The Bangla Passive in a Minimalist Parser. Proceedings of the 1st National Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages (MSPIL). IIT, Mumbai.
   11. 2006 Identification of RC as Nominal Dependency Relation (with Nguyen Chi Duy Khuong), Proceedings of the 1st National Symposium on Modeling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages (MSPIL). IIT Mumbai.
   12. 2005 With Eyes Wide Shut: Sharing as Freedom. Proceedings of Conference on Construction of Knowledge, Vidya Bhavan society, Udaipur.
   13. 2004 Why Cleft? (jointly with Thangjam Hindustani Devi), CSLI Publications, Stanford.
       Wh Movement in a Wh in-situ language in Linguistics Inquiry 34.1 (jointly with Andrew Simpson)
   14. Minimal Look-Ahead in Yearbook of SA Languages and Linguistics, vol 5, ed. by Rajendra Singh, SAGE.
   15. Auxiliaries as light verbs: evidence from south Asian languages (with  Hanybabu M.T., Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet, Jena and  Kalyanmalini Sahoo, University of Trondheim) in SKY Journal of Lingusitics, Helsinki
   16. Peripheral and Clause-internal Complementizers in Bangla: A Case for Remnant Movement. Western Conference in Linguistics (WECOL), 2001, edt by Vida Samiian, Fresno.
   17. Auxiliaries as Heavily Grammaticalized Light Verbs: Evidence from South Asian Languages (Jointly with M.T. Hanybabu and Kalyanamalini Sahoo). Western Conference in Linguistics (WECOL), 2001, edt by Visa Samiian, Fresno, CA.
   18. The puzzle of the Bangla Comp-Internal clauses  Snippets 3, 2001
   19. Wh-Movement in a Wh-in-situ language  Proceedings of NELS 30, GLSA, Amherst
   20. Feature-Percolation, Pied Piping, and Transparency Proceedings of the North-West Centre for Linguistics International Conference on QUESTIONS, Manchester
   21. Feature-Percolation, Pied Piping, and Transparency, SOAS Working Papers in Lingusitics and Phonetics, vol 9.
   22. NUM/Q-CLA as a Complex Head  (2001) in Semi-Lexical Heads, eds. Henk van Riemsdijk & Norbert Corver, Mouton de Gruyter
   23. In Search of the Vague 'One'  ConSOLE 7; University of Leiden.
   24. Weak Possession and Deixis inside the DP (jointly with Ara Shah) ConSOLE 7; University of Leiden.
   25. The Bangla Subjunctive  (forthcoming) in Syntax and Semantics of Mood and Tense, edt. by Alessandra Giorgi, Jim Higginbotham and Fabio Pianesi, OUP.
   26. Bangla; Bengali (2000) Encyclopedia of World's Languages: Past and Present ed. by Jane Gary and Carl Rubino, WW Wilson, New York.
   27. Gerundial Aspect and NP Movement Yearbook of SA Languages and Linguistics, vol 3, ed. by Rajendra Singh, SAGE.
   28. Specificity in the Bangla DP; in Yearbook on South Asian Languages and Linguistics, vol 2, ed. Rajendra. Singh, SAGE Publications. (1999)
   29. DP-internal NP Movement (1998) UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, vol 10.
   30. Modality Operators in Bangla (1998) PILC Journal of Dravidic Studies vol 8.2. 153-166
   31. Kinship Inversion in Bangla PLUM Series, vol 7.
   32. A Review of Logical Form and Directionality by Josef Bayer; (1998) in Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics vol 1, Sage Publications.
   33. Principle-Based Parsing: Its Application to MT; (jointly with Probal Dasgupta) in The NLP Reader edt by Rajiv Sangal, BN Patnaik and V Chaitanya, Prentice Hall (India).
   34. Classifiers, Word Order and Definiteness; (jointly with Probal Dasgupta), 1996 in Word Order in Indian Languagesedt by Aditi Mukherjee and P. Swarajya Laxmi, Booklinks.
   35. Politeness as a Social Phenomenon Journal of the M.S. University of Baroda vol 43, no 2, 1995
   36. DPs in Bangla, Journal of the M.S. University of Baroda vol 43, no 1, 1995
   37. Politeness Strategies in Korean: A Reduced Gricean Framework, PILC Journal of Dravidic Studies vol 4, no 2,1994
   38. Classifiers and the Bangla DP;(jointly with Probal Dasgupta) in Select Papers from SALA XV, ed by A. Davison and F. Smith, Univ of Iowa, 1994
   39. Review of Language Development and Planning: A Pluralistic Paradigm by UN Singh in South Asian Language Review vol 4, no 1, 1994
   40. Machine Translating DPs across Bangla and Hindi; in Proceedings of the National Seminar on Applied Linguistics, Bharathiyar Univ, 1993
   41. Head Internal Relative Clause Climbing in Korean; in Indian Journal of Linguistics, vol 18, 1991

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