Malhaar P. Shah

Journal papers

Quantified Partitives are derived by Extraposition plus NP-deletion. Linguistic Inquiry, accepted.

Under review

Cross-Categorial Anomaly. Submitted to Linguistic Inquiry.

Under revision

Malhaar Shah, Tyler Knowlton, Robert Hopkins, Justin Halberda, Paul Pietroski, and Jeffrey Lidz. Individual differences reveal underlying similarities in meaning: quantifier-dependent choices in verification procedure are consistent across individuals. Under revision.

Alex Chabot, Anna Grabovac, and Malhaar Shah. Gujarati intensification-by-gemination is a degree-infix. Under revision.

Proceedings papers

Malhaar Shah and Tonia Bleam. PP-Complexes and Shell Structure. Proceedings of NELS 56. Submitted version

Future/epistemic ambiguities as height-relativity: evidence from Gujarati. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 30. Submitted version

Recursion in NP: pseudopartitive measures require complementation, not specification. Proceedings of WCCFL 43 (2025). Submitted version

Hindi-Urdu wh-scope markers license sluices: a new argument for indirect dependency. Proceedings of FASAL 14 (2025). Submitted version

Book Reviews

Review of Jim Wood's (2023) Icelandic Nominalizations and Allosemy (LINGUIST List).

Other (typesetting, 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]