Articles
2002
Structural Minimality, CP and the Initial State in Second Language Acquisition (with Barbara Hancin-Bhatt). Second Language Research, 18.4. 348-392.
Experts, Dialects, and Discourse. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 12.1. 74-109.
2001
World Englishes. Annual Review of Anthropology, 30. 527-550.
2000
Optimal Expressions in Indian English. English Language and Linguistics, 4.1. 69-95.
1997
Constraints, Code-Switching and Optimal Grammars. Lingua, 102.4 123-151.
Code-Switching and the Functional Head Constraint. World Englishes, 16.1. 171-176.
Optimal L2 Syllables: Interactions of Transfer and Developmental effects. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 19.3. 331-378. (Co-authored with Barbara Hancin-Bhatt).
1996
Introduction. Symposium on Constraints on Code-Switching. World Englishes, 15.3. 359-360.
On the Grammar of Bilingual Code-Switching. World Englishes, 15.3. 369-375.
Transfer in L2 Grammars: Commentary on Epstein, Flynn and Martohardjono's 'Second language acquisition: theoretical and experimental issues in contemporary research'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19.4. 715-716. (Co-authored with Barbara Hancin-Bhatt).
1995
Prescriptivism, Creativity, and World Englishes. World Englishes, 14.2. 247-260.
The Uprooted, The Indentured, and The Segregated: South African Indian English. Review article, Journal of Pidgins and Creoles, 10.2. 381-396.
1994
On Experiencers and Subjects of Perfect Predicates. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 24.1/2. 73-84.
1993
On Hindi Agreement. South Asian Language Review, 3.1. 65-78.
1992
Language Identity, Conflict and Convergence in South Asia. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 22.1. 1-21.
1989
Language Planning and Language Conflict. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 75. 73-85.
The Problem of MT Maintenance in Multilingual Setting: The Kashmiri Case. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 18.2. 40-50.
Good Mixes and Odd Mixes: Implications for the Bilingual's Grammar. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 19.1. 165-168.