Conference Presentations
2004
Critical Paradigms in Discourse Analytic research. Discussant note for the colloquium on Ideological-Theoretic Perspectives on Critical Discourse Analysis at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland, Oregon, May 1-4.
2002
Accusative DPs in Kashmiri. Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), November 1-3, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Domesticating coloniality: English in South Asia. Presented at the International Sociology Conference, July 7-13, Brisbane, Australia.
Accusative Case. Presented at the South Asian Language Analysis (SALA) roundtable, June 21-23, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Subverting power: Language movements in South Asia. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, April 6-9, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2001
Roots of language shift: Competing languages, contesting ideologies and functional diglossia. Presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Bilingualism, April 18-20, The University of the West of England, Bristol, U.K.
Naturalizing Standard English: Anatomy of "Expert" Discourse. Paper presented at the International Congress on World Languages and Multilingual Contexts, Jan 3-7, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India.
2000
Interface Constraints in L2 Acquisition. Presented at the 5th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA), Mar 30-Apr 1. MIT, Cambridge, Mass. (with Larry Lafond and Rachel Hayes).
Constraint Demotion and Null Subjects in Spanish L2 Acquisition. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Feb 20-24, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida (with Larry LaFond and Rachel Hayes).
1999
Competition, Conflict and Optimality in Second Language Acquisition. Presented at the annual Second Language Research Forum meeting, University of Minnesota, MN, Sept. 24-26 (with Larry LaFond and Rachel Hayes).
Ethical questions and the applied linguist, Discussant's note presented in the panel on Ethical Issues in Applied Linguistics. American Association of Applied Linguists, 6-8 March, Stamford, CN.
1998
Anatomy of an ideology: Standards for WE. Presented at the VI meeting of the International Association of World Englishes, University of Illinois, 5-7 November 1998.
Optimal questions in L2A. Presented at the annual meeting of the Second Language Research Forum, University of Hawaii, 15-18 October.
Optimal acquistion of L2 questions. Presented at the 4th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition., University of Pittsburg, PA, 23-25 September.
AgrP in UG: Elimination or Special Dispensation. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, 8-12 January.
1997
On the Absence of CP in Adult L2 Syntax. Presented at the 1997 Second Language Research Forum, Oct. 16-18, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Co-authored with Barbara Hancin-Bhatt.
Optimality in L2 Syllable Structure. Presented at the New Sounds 97 Symposium, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, September 8-12. Co-authored with Barbara J. Hancin-Bhatt.
Functional Projections in Adult Second Language Acquisition. Presented at the 19th annual South Asian Language Analysis (SALA) roundtable, 6-8 January, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
1996
Minimal Projections and Derivations in Second Language Acquisition. Presented at the 21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1-3 November, Boston, Mass. Co-authored with Barbara Hancin-Bhatt.
Phrase Structure Acquisition and the Status of CP in early adult syntax. Presented at 1996 Second Language Research Forum, Oct. 24-27, University of Arizona, Tucson, Az. Co-authored with Barbara Hancin-Bhatt.
Optimality and the Syntax of Language Variation. Presented at the 25th meeting of NWAVE, 17-19 October, Las Vegas, Nevada.
SLA, World Englishes, and the Paradigm Trap. Discussion note, presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Chicago, IL, March 23-26.
1995
Optimality, Crosslanguage Transfer, and L2 phonology. Presented at the 1995 Second Language Research Forum, Sept. 27-Oct. 1, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Co-authored with Barbara Hancin-Bhatt.
On the Syntax of Language Variation: Towards an Optimality-Theoretic Account. Presented at the Third International Conference on World Englishes, Nagoya, Japan, May 25-28.
Syntactic Constraints on Language Mixture: Patterns, Problems, and Prescriptions. Presented at the annual conference of the American Association of Asian Studies, Washington D.C., April 6-8.
On the Grammar of Bilingual Code-Switching. Presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Long Beach, CA, March 26-28.
Constraints, Optimality, and Code-Switching. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America; New Orleans, LA, January 5-8.
1994
Code-Switching and the Functional Head Constraint. Presented at the Eastern States Conference on Linguistics; University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Sept. 30- Oct. 2.
Experiencers and Subjects of Perfect Predicates. Presented at the Formal Linguistic Society of MidAmerica; University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, May 22-24.
Code-Mixing and Linguistic Theory. Presented at the sixteenth annual South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, May 26-28.
Form, Function, and the Grammar of Indian English. Presented at the First International Conference on World Englishes; University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, March 31-April 2.
Meaning in Deviation: Responding to the Writings of Nonnative English Speakers. Presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication; Nashville, Tennessee, March 17-19.
1993
Psyched Out- Analyzing Quirky Constructions Presented at the 29th Chicago Linguistic Society Meeting, University of Chicago, Chicago, April 22-24.
The Case of Quirky Constructions. Presented at The Formal Linguistic Society of Mid-America Meeting (FLSM) IV, University of Iowa, Iowa City, April 16-18.
On Describing World Englishes. Presented at the Colloquium on World Englishes; University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, March 30.
Nominative Objects in Kashmiri. Presented at the Linguistic Society of America meeting, Los Angeles, CA, January 7-10.
1992
On the Nature of L1 Filter and Cross Language Transfer Effects. Presented at the New Sounds ‘92 Symposium, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, April 13-16. Co-authored with Barbara J. Hancin-Bhatt.
Phonological Constraints in Second Language Production: A Model-Theoretic Approach. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguists, Seattle, WA, Feb. 28-Mar. 2. Co-authored with Barbara J. Hancin-Bhatt.
1991
Dative Subjects and Retreats in UG. Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., November 8-9.
On Hyphenated Identities and Liberation Linguistics. Presented at 3rd Annual Illinois TESOL/BE Graduate Student Conference, Nov. 7, Normal, IL.
Case and Agreement in Kashmiri. Presented at the 20th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Nov. 3-5.
1990
Phrase Structure Order and V2 in Kashmiri. Presented at the 12th Annual Conference on South Asian Language Analysis, University of California- Berkeley, Jun. 13-15.
Why Language Planning Fails in India. Presented at the Mid-America Linguistics Conference, University of Northern Iowa, Iowa, October 18.
1988
Dative Subjects in Kashmiri. Presented at the 17th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Nov. 2-4.
1986
Language Maintenance and Language Shift: The Case of Kashmiri. Presented at the 8th Annual Conference on South Asian Language Analysis, University of Illinois, May 13-15.