Variation in South Asian Languages

Introducing Language Variation Pritha Chandra 
A Panorama of South Asian Relatives: A case of Structural Convergence, Divergence, Innovation and Syntactic Change K. V. Subbarao 
Negation in select South Asian Languages Rajesh Kumar, Sansuma Brahma, Sh. Francis Monsang, and Mayuri Dilip 
Effect of non-canonical word order and argument proximity on processing of SOV languages Apurva and Samar Husain 
A correlative typology mixing syntactic and semantic parameters Rahul Balusu 
A Comparative Study of the Lexicalization of the Bangla Polar Question Particle ki and the Assamese Polar Question Particle ne Ambalika Guha 
Comparing Honorificity Agreement in Maithili and Bangla Preeti Kumari 
Towards an Understanding of Microvariations: Decoding the Hierarchical Module of Variation and the Correlates of Mappila Malayalam Thapasya Jayaraj and Rajesh Kumar 
Dialect Variation and Dialect Change: A social-dialectological approach Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi 
Parametrizing Ergativity: Insights from Western Indo-Aryan languages Usha Udaar 
Cross-linguistic Variations in the Processing of Ergative Case: Evidences from Punjabi Mahima Gulati and Kamal Kumar Choudhary 
On Gender Micro-variation Pritha Chandra

Pritha Chandra is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, USA. Her research is mainly centered around the theoretical constructs of case, agreement and formal features in South Asian languages; her more recent publications are on feature variation and language change in Indo-Aryan languages. She has been collaborating with researchers from both Indian and international universities. Her supervisees now hold faculty and postdoctoral positions in reputed universities in India and abroad.