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I am Professor of Linguistics in Â鶹ӰԺ, Director of the , andÌýFellow of theÌýInstitute of Cognitive Science. My research areas include semantics-pragmatics, first language acquisition, and the language-cognition interface from a crosslinguistic perspective with a focus on Hindi and Tamil.ÌýDuring my tenure at the Max Planck Institute, I constructed two large-scale longitudinal, audio-visual corpora of child-caregiver interactions in Hindi and Tamil that form the basis for a long-running project on the acquisition of word meaning and argument structure in the two languages.Ìý

I have co-edited a book and special issues in journals includingÌýEvents of Putting and TakingÌý(with Anetta Kopecka, John Benjamins, 2012),ÌýThe Linguistic Encoding of Multiple-Participant EventsÌý(with Sonja Eisenbeiss and Penelope Brown, Special Issue ofÌýLinguistics,Ìý2007),ÌýThe Acquisition of Information StructureÌý(with Christine Dimroth, Special Issue ofÌýLinguistics Vanguard, 2018), andÌýEmbodied Cognition and LanguageÌý(with Mutsumi Imai and Eliana Colunga, Special Issue ofÌýLanguages, 2019). My work also appears in a variety of journals includingÌýCognition, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Journal of Child Language, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Linguistics,ÌýandÌýLingua.