I am a third year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Maryland, where I am advised by Jeff Lidz and Alexander Williams.

My work so far has focused on the following:

• How syntax interacts with semantics, particularly when it comes to quantification, ellipsis, and 'compositionality below the word level'.  Words like more and most allow investigation into all of these.

• How semantics interacts with extra-linguistic cognition (specifically, number cognition). I work on how we process quantificational adjectives and determiners like more and most in real time.

• Comparative Indic morphosyntax, and the syntax of Gujarati and Hindi specifically.

I currently organize Maryland's Syntax Lab meeting.

Before coming to Maryland, I read Philosophy and Linguistics BA, at St. Hugh's College, Oxford (2019-2022), for which I was awarded a Congratulatory First. I was advised by Matt Husband.

The best way to reach me is by email:

mpshah at umd dot edu

If I don't reply within a few days, please feel free to remind me!