Presentations
2025
NP-deletion and extraposition in English quantified partitives. Invited talk at Syntax Brown Bag, New York University. [handout]
Malhaar Shah and Tonia Bleam. PP-complexes and shell structure: a binary-branching analysis of multiple-PP constructions. Poster presented at NELS 56, New York University. [poster]
Future/epistemic ambiguities as event-relativity: evidence from Gujarati. Talk presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 30, Goethe University Frankfurt. [handout]
Malhaar Shah, Tyler Knowlton, Justin Halberda, Paul Pietroski, and Jeffrey Lidz. 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. [poster]
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.
2024
Hindi-Urdu wh-scope markers license sluices: a new argument for indirect dependency. Poster presented at Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 14, Stony Brook University, New York.
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.
