Archna Bhatia
List of John Benjamins publications for which Archna Bhatia plays a role.
Articles
2020 Chapter 10. Comprehension of Differential Object Marking by Hindi heritage speakers The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking, Mardale, Alexandru and Silvina Montrul (eds.), pp. 261–281 | Chapter
We investigated the comprehension of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Hindi heritage speakers who are second generation immigrants in the United States. In Hindi, DOM is marked with the postposition -ko, which is also a marker of dative case with indirect objects. Studies of Hindi heritage… read more
2012 Erosion of case and agreement in Hindi heritage speakers Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:2, pp. 141–176 | Editorial
Recent research has identified several vulnerable areas in heritage language grammars, among which morphosyntax is among the most affected. In this study, we report on the morphosyntactic competence of Hindi heritage speakers living in the U.S and show that these speakers have representational… read more
2009 Closest conjunct agreement in head final languages Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2009, van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen (ed.), pp. 67–88 | Article
We discuss the phenomenon of closest conjunct agreement with a special focus on head-final languages; we present data from two such languages, Hindi and Tsez, which allow agreement with the rightmost conjunct when the verb follows the conjoined phrase. This contrasts with head-initial languages,… read more