Table of Contents

Introducing Language Variation.- A Panorama of South Asian Relatives: A case of Structural Convergence, Divergence, Innovation and Syntactic Change.- Negation in select South Asian Languages.- Effect of non-canonical word order and argument proximity on processing of SOV languages.- A correlative typology mixing syntactic and semantic parameters.- A Comparative Study of the Lexicalization of the Bangla Polar Question Particle ki and the Assamese Polar Question Particle ne.- Comparing Honorificity Agreement in Maithili and Bangla.- Towards an Understanding of Microvariations: Decoding the Hierarchical Module of Variation and the Correlates of Mappila Malayalam.- Dialect Variation and Dialect Change: A social-dialectological approach.- Parametrizing Ergativity: Insights from Western Indo-Aryan languages.- Cross-linguistic Variations in the Processing of Ergative Case: Evidences from Punjabi.- On Gender Micro-variation.

About the Author

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.