List of Publications:

  • (Co-)authored books:
    • Language history, language change, and language relationship: An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics, 2nd ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009. [Senior author, with Brian D. Joseph]
    • An early Upani?adic reader, with notes, glossary, and an appendix of related Vedic texts. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 2007. (pp. x, 203)

  • (Co-)edited volumes:
    • Vedic studies: Language, culture, and philosophy. (Proceedings of the 15th World Sanskrit Conference, 1.) New Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan and D. K. Printworld, 2014. (pp. viii, 244)

  • Refereed and invited journal articles and book chapters: (Papers in SLS tend to be ?lightly refereed?)
    • Analogical change. Handbook of historical linguistics, ed. by Brian D. Joseph and Richard Janda, 441-460. Malden, MA/Oxford/Melbourne/Berlin: Blackwell. 2003?.
    • On the historical interpretation of Vedic texts: A philological perspective. Contemporary views on Indian civilization: Proceedings of the WAVES Conference at Hoboken, NJ, ed. by BhuDev Sharma, 189-201. Meerut, India: Urvashi Press. 2003.?
    • Did Indo-European linguistics prepare the ground for Nazism? Lessons from the past for the present and the future. Language in time and space: A Festschrift for Werner Winter on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, ed. by B. L. M. Bauer and G.-J. Pinault, 167-187. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 2003.?*
    • Fish, push, and Greek R + y clusters: A return to Danielson 1903. Proceedings of the Fifteenth UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, November 7-8, 2003, ed. by Karlene Jones-Bley et al., 155-167. (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, No. 49.) Washington DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2004.*
    • Va?a?, v??, ve?: A new etymological account. Encyclopedia of Indian wisdom: Prof. Satya Vrat Shastri felictation volume, ed. by Ramkaran Sharma, 217-226. Delhi/Varanasi: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan, 2005.?
    • Philology and the historical interpretation of the Vedic texts. The Indo-Aryan controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history, ed. by Edwin F. Bryant and Laurie L. Patton, 282-308. Routledge, 2005.?*
    • How strict is Strict OV? A family of typological constraints with focus on South Asia. Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2005: 145-163, ed. by Rajendra Singh and Tanmoy Bhattacharya. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter: 2005.?*
    • The problem of time in South Asian convergence. Proceedings of the Murray B. Emeneau Seminar, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 2005. Electronic publication at http://www.ciil.org/Main/Announcement/MBE_Programme/frameset1.htm ? [Website has been discontinued.]
    • The Insular Celtic absolute : conjunct distinction once again: A prosodic proposal. Proceedings of the Sixteenth UCLA Indo-European Conference. Los Angeles, Nov. 5-6, 2005, ed. by Karlene Jones-Bley, Martin E. Huld, Angela Della Volpe, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, 153-172. (The Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph 50.) Washington: Institute for the Study of Man: 2006.*
    • Interaction of verb accentuation and utterance finality in Bangla [with Indranil Dutta]. CD-ROM Proceedings of Speech Prosody: 3rd International Conference, Dresden, May 2-5, 2006, ed. by Rdiger Hoffmann and Hansj”rg Mixdorff. (Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation, 40.) Dresden: TUDpress: 2006.*
    • Reflexivization in the Rig-Veda (and beyond). Themes and tasks in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan linguistics, Papers of the 2004 World Sanskrit Conference, v. 5, ed. by Bertil Tikkanen and Heinrich Hettrich, 19-44. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 2006.?*
    • Ta-participles with genitive agents in Vedic Sanskrit: Was P??ini right? Sanskrit Studies Centre Journal, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, vol. 2: 24-49. 2006.*
    • *[+ labial, + palatalized]. Studies in Basque and historical linguistics in memory of R. L. Trask, ed. by J.A. Lakarra. and J. I. Hualde, 439-448. (Annuario del Seminario de Filolog¡a Vasca ?Julio de Urquijo? 40: 1-2.) 2006. ?
    • Aspirate sonorants vs sonorants+[H] in Middle Indo-Aryan. Ny?ya-Vasi??ha: Felicitation volume of Prof V N Jha, chief ed. Manabendu Banerjee, 117-126. Kolkata: Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 2006.?
    • South Asia and Turkic: The Central Asian connection? Old and new perspectives on South Asian languages: Grammar and semantics, ed. by C. P. Masica, 65-90. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2007.?
    • Morphology and i-apocope in Slavic and Baltic. Proceedings of the Eighteenth UCLA Indo-European Conference. Los Angeles, Nov. 3-4, 2006, ed. by Karlene Jones-Bley, Martin E. Huld, Angela Della Volpe, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, 65-76. (The Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph 53.) Washington: Institute for the Study of Man: 2007*
    • Privileged languages and others in the history of historical-comparative linguistics. History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1?5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, ed. by Douglas A. Kibbee, 274-287. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. 2007?*
    • Dravidian Syntactic typology: A reply to Steever. Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, ed. by Rajendra Singh, 164-198. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.?
    • Early Germanic agreement with mixed-gender antecedents: with focus on the history of German. Proceedings of the 19th Indo-European Conference, UCLA, ed. by Karlene Bley-Jones et al., 151-169. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2008.?*
    • Default, animacy, avoidance: Diachronic and synchronic agreement variations with mixed-gender antecedents. Grammatical changes in Indo-European languages, ed. by Vit Bubenik, John Hewson, and Sarah Rose, 29-42. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2009.?*
    • *my (*)ny in Greek and Italic: Common innovation, parallel development, or fortuitous similarity? SLS 2009: 3. (Online publication http://sls.linguistics.illinois.edu)
    • Labiopalatalization in Indo-European languages. Proceedings of the 20th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, ed. by Stephanie W. Jamison, H. Craig Melchert, and Brent Vine, 69-78. Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2009.
    • Middle Indo-Aryan ?aspirate clusters? revisited. Anantam ??stram: Indological and Linguistic Studies in Honour of Bertil Tikkanen, ed. by Klaus Karttunen. 87-102. (= Studia Orientalia 108.) Helsinki, 2009.?
    • St„mme oder Wurzeln im Sanskrit? ?Prim„re vs. sekund„re Verbalstammbildung und das Kausativ. International Conference on Morphology and Digitisation, ed. by Jost Gippert, 63-80 = ?stav srovn vac¡ jazykov?dy ? Chatre??ar 2009. Prague, 2009.
    • Suprasegmental and prosodic historical phonology. Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, ed. by Vit Bubenik and Silvia Luraghi, 106-113. London/New York: Continuum Books, 2010.?*
    • Typology and universals. Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, ed. by Vit Bubenik and Silvia Luraghi, 59-69. London/New York: Continuum Books, 2010.?*
    • Prosody vs. syntax: Prosodic rebracketing of final vocatives in English [with Indranil Dutta]. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, ed. by Mark Hasegawa-Johnson. CD-publication (see also http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/mark-hasegawa-johnson/proceedings-of-speech-prosody-2010/paperback/product-11603457.html) 2012
    • A rejoinder to Steever 2009 (Indian Linguistics 70: 411-423). Indian Linguistics 72: 123-128, 2011.*
    • Sanskrit and P??ini ? Core and periphery. Sa?sk?ta Vimar?a N.S. 6: 85-102. (World Sanskrit Conference Special.) New Delhi, 2012.?
    • Phrasal prosody and the Indo-European verb. The Indo-European verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, ed. by H. Craig Melchert, 115-126. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2012.*?
    • Issues in Sanskrit agreement. Indic across the millennia: From the Rigveda to Modern Indo-Aryan, ed. by Jared S. Klein and Kazuhiko Yoshida, 49-58. (14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto, Japan, September 1st-5th, 2009, Proceedings of the Linguistic Section.) Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2012.*?
    • Proto-Indo-European verb finality: Reconstruction, typology, validation. Proto-Indo-European syntax and its development, ed. by Leonid Kulikov and Nikolaos Lavidas, 49-76. (Journal of Historical Linguistics 3: 1). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2013.*?
    • Prosodic incorporation of English utterance final vocatives. [With Indranil Dutta] The EFL Journal 4: 2. 1-20. (Hyderabad: The English and Foreign Languages University.) 2013
    • Predicate order in Vedic Prose. Vedic studies: Language, culture, and philosophy, ed. by H. H. Hock, 5-17. Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan and D. K. Printworld, 2014


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