For a full list of my work, see my CV.
Papers
Hindi-Urdu wh-scope markers license sluices: a new argument for indirect dependency. Proceedings of FASAL 14 (2025). Submitted version.
For a full list of my work, see my CV.
Papers
Hindi-Urdu wh-scope markers license sluices: a new argument for indirect dependency. Proceedings of FASAL 14 (2025). Submitted version.
Book Reviews
Review of Icelandic Nominalizations and Allosemy (LINGUIST List).
Presentations
2025
Malhaar Shah, Tyler Knowlton, Justin Halberda, Paul Pietroski, and Jeffrey Lidz. (2025). Uniformity of sentence verification strategies within and across individuals supports a subtraction-based meaning of 'most'. Poster presented at Society for Philosophy and Psychology 51, Cornell University.
Recursion in NP: pseudopartitive measures require complementation, not specification. Poster presented at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 43 (WCCFL43), University of Washington, Seattle.
Malhaar Shah, Tyler Knowlton, Justin Halberda, Paul Pietroski, and Jeffrey Lidz. Uniformity of verification strategies within and across individuals: predicting performance with most-sentences from performance with more-sentences. Poster presented at Human Sentence Processing, University of Maryland.
Malhaar Shah and Sebastian Mancha. Affix-hopping without affixes hopping: Spanning eliminates the need for T-to-V lowering [slides] Talk given at LSA Annual Conference, Philadephia.
Alex Chabot, Anna Grabovac, Malhaar Shah. Intensification via gemination: Support for indirect infixation [slides] Talk given at LSA Annual Conference, Philadephia.
2023
Malhaar Shah & Veronika Gvozdovaite. Allosemy and complex heads: Architectural issues. Poster presented at The Fifth CreteLing.
Against quantificational event semantics: Evidence for “late” event binding from argument structure nominalizations and sub-event-relations. Poster presented at Mid-Atlantic Colloquium for Studies in Meaning (MACSIM), University of Pennsylvania.
Coming Soon
Malhaar Shah (2025). Future/epistemic ambiguities as event-relativity: evidence from Gujarati. Talk to be given at Sinn und Bedeutung 30, Goethe University Frankfurt.
Malhaar Shah and Tonia Bleam. (2025). PP-complexes and Shell Structure. Poster to be presented at The 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 56), New York University.
Other (LaTeX, interviews)
LaTeX for syntacticians: an overview document, written originally for a workshop at the University of Maryland Language Science Center in January 2024.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was President of the Oxford University Linguistics Society. I organized interviews with linguists and philosophers of language, available online.
Interviews (in alphabetical order):
Hagit Borer [link]
Emma Borg [link]
Robyn Carston [link]
Noam Chomsky [link]
Janet Dean Fodor [link]
John Goldsmith [link]
Heidi Harley [link]
Norbert Hornstein [link]
Richard Kayne [link]
Angelika Kratzer [link]
Aditi Lahiri [link]
Paul Pietroski [link]
David Poeppel [link]
Tony Thorne [link]