Shrayana Haldar
Shrayana Haldar
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Shrayana
Haldar

Research Interests

Broad: Theoretical syntax, syntax-semantics interface, semantics, pragmatics

Narrow: Bengali, ellipsis, Verb-stranding VP Ellipsis (VVPE), structure-building, Merge, Multidominance, reconstruction, quantification, binding, Binding Theory, relativization, parasitic gaps, scalar implicatures, exhaustification, presupposition, modality, weak necessity, homogeneity

Undergraduate alma mater: UMass Amherst.

2024:

  • "Of Neglect". Submitted to Linguistic Inquiry. Available for download from Lingbuzz here.
  • "Towards a Middle Ground between Engdahl and Heim on Functional Readings of Wh-Questions". Submitted to Natural Language Semantics. Available for download from Lingbuzz here.

 

2022:

  • "Dissolving Matching". In Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XIII. Published here. Download here.
  • "Bengali Verb-stranding VP Ellipsis and Ellipsis Identity Conditions". In Proceedings of (F)ASAL-11. Published here.

 

2020:

  • “Bengali Verb-stranding VP Ellipsis and Ellipsis Identity Conditions”. Unpublished manuscript. Available here.

 

Unpublished manuscripts:

  • "Stranding Classifiers: Interactions between Antilocality and Cyclic Linearization in Bengali". Unpublished manuscript; term paper Contact me for draft.
  • "Ninanian Desires". Unpublished manuscript; term paper. Contact me for draft.
  • "To Do or Not to Do Mortgage Binding: a Quest to "Tuck Tucking-In out"". Unpublished manuscript; term paper Contact me for draft.

2024:

  • "Threefold Ambiguities between Permission, Weak Necessity, and Strong Necessity in Bengali". CLS 60, University of Chicago. April 26-28, 2024. Download poster here.
  • "Threefold Ambiguities between Permission, Weak Necessity, and Strong Necessity in Bengali". FASAL 14, Stony Brook University. April 4-6, 2024. Download poster here.

 

2023:

  • "Linearizing Disintegrating Traces". Invited talk given at the workshop "How Many Mothers? Multidominance in Syntax" at the LSA Summer Institute at UMass Amherst, June 24, 2023. Download handout here.

 

2022:

  • "Dissolving Matching". GLOW in Asia XIII, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, August 4-7, 2022. Download handout here.
  • "Dissolving Matching". ECO-5, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 16, 2022. Download handout here.
  • "Feature Gluttony in Bengali Copular Infinitivals". (F)ASAL-12, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, April 9-10, 2022. Download handout here.

 

2021:

  • “Bengali Verb-stranding VP Ellipsis and Ellipsis Identity Conditions”. (F)ASAL-11, Institute of Linguistics at the University of Minnesota, March 26-28, 2021. Download handout here.