- Generative Syntax
- Sntax-pragmatics interface
- Grammar of politeness
- Human-machine interaction
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- Sep 2023 - Nov 2024: Postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Worked on the naturalness of human-machine interaction
- Nov 2022 - Apr 2023: Assistant Professor at the Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
- I am interested in understanding the interface of syntax and pragmatics through the lens of 'honorificity' (politeness) in Indian languages, specifically of the Eastern Indo-Aryan sub-family. I am also interested in other aspects of these languages, such as classifiers, reduplication, and differential subject marking.
- I also work on the linguistic aspects of human-machine interaction, such as the naturalness of human-machine interaction for human users and AI hallucinations.
- 2017 - IIT Delhi Institute Fellowship for PhD.
- 2015- UGC Net
- Kumari, Preeti, Shreya Mehta, Anusuya Nayak, Yangchen Roy, Vyom Sharma. A Grammar of Gaddi. (Forthcoming from UCL Press).
- Kumari, Preeti, Miok Pak & Pritha Chandra. Allocutive and Object Agreement Complementarity: The FinP in Maithili. In the proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 41. Cascadilla Press. (2025)
- Kumari, Preeti. Comparing Honorificity Agreement in Maithili and Bangla. In Language Variation in South Asia – Theories and Methods, (ed.) Pritha Chandra. Springer Nature. DOI- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1149-3. (2023).
- Kumari, Preeti. Honorificity feature: a reanalysis of number in Bangla and Maithili. In Advances in South Asian Linguistics, (eds.) Ghanshyam Sharma & John L. Loewe. LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 99. ISBN: ISBN 9783969391242. (2023).
- Dutta, Chandni, Preeti Kumari, & Pritha Chandra. Plural Inflection in a Classifier Language. In the Proceedings of the 36 th Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics and MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. (2023).
- Kumari, Preeti & Pritha Chandra. Asymmetry of Possessor Agreement in Maithili. In the Proceedings of the 13 th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia Conference. (2022).
- Kumari, Preeti. Honorificity in the Nominal Spine – A DP Internal Account. In the Proceedings of the 30 th Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe. (2022).
- Kumari, Preeti. Portmanteau Honorificity Agreement in Maithili. In the Proceedings of the 11 th Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages, (eds.) Samir Alam, Yash Sinha, Sadhwi Srinivas. (2022).
- Chandra, Pritha, Preeti Kumari & Miok Pak. 3 rd Person is Person too: Evidence from Honorific Constructions. In the proceedings of the 23 rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG). (2021).
- E-mail id: preeti.k@srmap.edu.in