{"id":2154,"date":"2017-10-04T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T00:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/?page_id=2154"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:26:06","slug":"chidambaram","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/chidambaram\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty: Vrinda Chidambaram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3ph022-95174c5aaf376e0d5f67a90d8b283867\">\n.flex_column.av-3ph022-95174c5aaf376e0d5f67a90d8b283867{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-3ph022-95174c5aaf376e0d5f67a90d8b283867 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-2fuc96-e68a433c04d06a7ff561f222869a6313\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-2fuc96-e68a433c04d06a7ff561f222869a6313{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-2fuc96-e68a433c04d06a7ff561f222869a6313 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-2fuc96-e68a433c04d06a7ff561f222869a6313 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-2fuc96-e68a433c04d06a7ff561f222869a6313 av-special-heading-h2  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Faculty<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9w7owa-43aea773f740c584939b71f07bdda981\">\n.flex_column.av-9w7owa-43aea773f740c584939b71f07bdda981{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-9w7owa-43aea773f740c584939b71f07bdda981 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-7buxje-1d82ef4fc0526a5b723490d8d6f75a66  avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-2156 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-2156 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/chidambaram.jpg\" alt='Vrinda Chidambaram'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"271\" width=\"200\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name '  itemprop=\"name\" >Vrinda Chidambaram<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title '  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >Associate Professor, <em>Comparative Literature\/Slavic, Linguistics<\/em><\/div><div class='team-member-description '  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>Joint Ph.D. in Slavic and Theoretical Linguistics, Princeton University, 2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office:<\/strong> HMNSS 2608<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:vrinda.chidambaram@ucr.edu\">vrinda.chidambaram@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" >UCR | Department of Comparative Literature and Languages<\/span><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-6kf29m-24c77d6bed64b6c987f3601812b75fb8\">\n.flex_column.av-6kf29m-24c77d6bed64b6c987f3601812b75fb8{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 20px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-6kf29m-24c77d6bed64b6c987f3601812b75fb8 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-3nwf0q-e7e017af5dcc3c8d01e617be6d5f3712 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>My primary research interest is syntax and particularly the morphosyntactic properties of Slavic Languages. Although I extend my research to include typologically diverse languages, my expertise is in the South Slavic subgroup (especially Slovene, B\/C\/S, and Macedonian). 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