Invited Talks | Refereed Conference Presentations



Talks and Conferences


Invited Talks


2013

  • Indian Englishes: From Post-Colonial to Late-Modern. Invited Plenary talk at the International Conference on Language Variation and Change in Post-Colonial Contexts, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy. April 18-19.

2012

  • Speaking with an accent: English across cultures. Invited talk at the Campus Honors Program, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. April 13.
  • Variability, Mobility, and Multilingualism. Invited talk at the University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics, March 30.
  • English in Late-Modernity. Invited talk given the Distinguished Colloquium on Theorizing English in the World at the annual conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, March 23-26, Boston, MA., USA.

2011

  • Script choice, language loss, and the politics of anamnesis: Kashmiri in diaspora. Invited Plenary talk presented at the conference on Mobility, Language, Literacy. Cape Town, South Africa, January 19-21.
  • Local articulations of post-colonial English: Indian English in Late-Modernity. Invited talk presented in the panel on Ex-colonial languages in a Global World, University of Illinois, Urbana, April 8.
  • Mobilizing Resources: Language Contact in Late-Modernity. Invited Keynote address at the 3rd annual meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, April 22-24.

2010

  • World Englishes, Globalization, and the Politics of Conformity. Invited Plenary at the Second Annual Purdue University Graduate Student Symposium on ESL Research, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, April 3.
  • Optimality theory and Hindi-English code-switching. Invited talk presented at the NSF- supported workshop on Collaborative Research: Creating a large Multilingual Multi Layered Representational Repository of Linguistic Code Switched data. Columbia University, New York, Dec 17-19.

2008

  • Migration, Minorities, and Identuty Politics: The Sociolinguistics of Kashmiri in Diaspora. To be presented at the India Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, November 14.
  • Voices from below: Minority languages, polices, and globalization. Presented in the symposium on “The World Language Curriculum Reform: Globalization and the Social Dimensions of Language Policies” at the 15th congress of the World Association of Educational Research, Marrakech, Morocco, June 2-6.
  • The Syntax of Code-switching. Presented at the NSF-supported workshop on Computational issues in Code-switching. Tampa, FL. April 11-12.

2007

  • Global Englishes, ELT Practices, and Critical Applied Linguistics. Presented at the Linguistics Forum of the Department of English, Central Connecticut State University, May 12.
  • Kashmiri Language Rights: Politics, Folk Beliefs, and Attrition. Presented in the Presidential Panel on Linguistic Human Rights at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL., April 9-12.

2006

  • Colonial Discourse, Alter-native Ideologies and the Politics of Linguistic Nostalgia. Plenary Address, presented at the conference on Dialogue Under Occupation: The Discourse of Enactment, Transaction, Reaction and Resolution. Chicago, IL November 7-11.

2005

  • Language Policy and Pedagogical Practices in South Asia. Presented in the series World Language Policies and Pedagogical Practices, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 10.

2004

  • In Other Words: Global Text, Local Contexts, and the Third Space. Forum Lecture given at the 10th meeting of the International Association for World Englishes, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, July 16-18.
  • Theoretical Perspectives on Teaching South Asian Languages: Heritage, LCTLs, or FLA? Given at the University of California, Berkeley, at the first SALRC (South Asian Language Resource Center) Workshop on Appropriate Pedagogy: Texts and Contexts of Teaching South Asian Languages, Feb 12-13.

2003

  • Vulnerable Edges: Phrase Structure in SLA, SLI, and AA. Plenary Address, presented at the International Seminar on Applied Linguistics in a Globalized World, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, December 12-14.
  • Crises in SALT (South Asian Language Teaching). Given at the University of Texas at Austin in the Special Symposium on Pedagogical Issues in Teaching South Asian Languages.

2000

  • Regarding English–Orphan Varieties and Language Politics. Talk given at the Linguistics Seminar of the Department of English, East Carolina University, November 16.
  • Homogeny, Hegemony, and History: Standard English in Non-standard Contexts. Talk given at the Linguistics Seminar of the Department of Linguistics, North Eastern Illinois University, October 25.
  • Vulnerable Edges in Second Language Acquisition. Talk given at the colloquium on ‘SLA and Linguistics’ at the annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2000) held in September 7- 10, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
  • Codeswitching in Optimality Theory. Focus Lecture, given at the conference ‘Linguistics at the Millennium in Southern Africa’, held in January 12-14, 2000, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

1998

  • The Case of Grammatical Relations in South Asian languages. Given at the Special symposium on Discourse and Grammar in Multilingual South Asia, University of Illinois, IL., 7-8 November.

1997

  • Second Language Acquisition Paradigms and World Englishes. Given at the National University of Singapore conference on Three Circles of English, December 17-19.
  • Optimal Expressions in the Grammar of Indian English. Given at the University of South Carolina, Program in Linguistics, Columbia, 7 November.

1996

  • The Syntax of Contact Varieties: An Optimality-Theoretic Approach. Given at the University of Utah, Program in Linguistics, Salt Lake City, 18 February.

1995

  • Codeswitching, Constraints, and Optimal Grammars. Given at the University of Delhi, Department of Linguistics, New Delhi, India, 12 December.
  • Codeswitching, Constraints, and Optimal Grammars. Given at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics, Philadelphia, 2 November.

1993

  • Creativity in Bilinguals’ Language Use: Issues and Implications of Multilingualism in South Asia. Given at the University of Utah, Program in Linguistics, Salt Lake City, 19 October.


Refereed Conference Presentations


2013

  • Mobility, mixing, and multilingualism. International Symposium on Bilingualism 9, Singapore, June 10-13.

2012

  • The creative linguistic chaos in a global city. Sociolinguistic Symposium 19, Berlin, Germany, August 21-24.

2011

  • Script ideologies and language loss in a multilingual setting: Kashmiri in Diaspora. International Symposium on Bilingualism 9, Oslo, Norway, June 15-18.
  • The creative potential of the local-global dialectic. 56th International Linguistic Association, Rutgers University, N.J. April 15-17.
  • Differential Case Marking in Hindi Heritage Speakers. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA), University of Washington, Seattle, March 25-27. (With S. Montrul, R. Girju, A. Bhatia)

2010

  • Morphological errors in Hindi, Spanish and Arabic Heritage speakers.” Invited colloquium on the linguistic competence of heritage speakers. Second Language Research Forum, University of Maryland, October, 14-17. (with S. Montrul and E. Benmamoun)
  • Reading gender in Indian English newspapers: Global, local, or liminal? Sociolinguistics Symposium 18, University of Southampton, U.K. Sept. 1-4.
  • Longing, belonging, and discontent: Kashmiri language in diaspora. Colloquium on Language and Diaspora Identities, American Association of Applied Linguistics, Atlanta, GA., March 6-9.

2009

  • Longing, belonging, and discontent: Kashmiri language loss in diaspora. 11th meeting of the International Pragmatics Association, July 12-17, Melbourne, Australia.

2008

  • Code-switching and optimal grammars. Presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 24-26, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. (with Agnes Bolonyai)

2007

  • Gender ideologies, code-switching, and the politics of nostalgia. Presented at the conference on Language Ideologies and Media Discourse: Texts, Practices, Policies, University of Leeds, U.K., September 3-5.
  • An optimal grammar of bilingual language use. Presented at the 6th meeting of the International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Hamburg, Germany, May 30-June 2. (with A. Bolonyai)
  • Code-switching and the optimal grammar of bilingual language use. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, April 21-24. (with A. Bolonyai)

2005

  • In other words: code-switching in the third space. Presented at the International Conference on Interrogating Third Spaces in Language Teaching, Learning and Use, June 27-28, University of Leicester, U.K.
  • Language alternation, multicultural space and identity representation. Presented at the First Midwestern Conference on Language, Culture and Cognition, Northwestern University, May 15- 16.

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.




Image from the cover of World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistics Varieties (Cambridge Africa Collection), Rajend Mesthrie and Rakesh M. Bhatt.