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Vrinda Chidambaram

e-mail:  vrinda -at- princeton.edu
program:  Linguistics (began 2004)
date of general exams:  January 2007
research interests:  Syntax and semantics
dissertation topic:  Relative clauses, comparatives, and superlatives
hometown:  Alexandria, VA
languages:  English, Tamil, Russian, Slovene, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech

education:

Bachelor's Degree (Cornell University, 2002)
Non-degree program in Theoretical Linguistics (University of California, San Diego)

teaching experience:

Introductory Slovene (Spring 2008)
LIN201 Introduction to Linguistics (Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006)

awards and fellowships:

Fulbright IIE Scholarship 2008-2009 to Slovenia


publications:

"The Subcategorization and Quantification Properties of Superlatives in Slovene."
in The Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. Vol. 16, the Stony Brook Meeting. Eds. A. Antonenko, J. Baylin, and C. Bethin. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 2008.
"Relative and Pseudo-Relative Clauses in Slovene."
in Slovene Linguistics Studies. Vol 6. Eds. M. Greenberg and M. Snoj. Ljubljana. Slovenia, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, 2007.
Conference paper: "Relative Clauses in Slovene: Resumptive Pronouns and Apparent Feature Mismatches."
at Slavic Linguistics Society: First Annual Meeting, September 2006.

A Linguist's Linguist: Studies in South Slavic Linguistics in Honor of E. Wayles Browne. 2009.


Steven Franks, Vrinda Chidambaram, and Brian Joseph, eds. Slavic Publishers. Bloomington, IN. 


conference papers:

"Kar Nekaj O Kar" 


University of Ljubljana Linguistics Circle, March 2009.
 "On the Kar Quantifier in Slovene"
University of Nova Gorica. October 29, 2008.


additional information:

Invited Presentation: "Eto-Clefting Revisited."
at Columbia Linguistics Society, Columbia University. October 26, 2007.


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