I am a PhD Candidate (dissertation expected 2027) in Linguistics at the University of Maryland. My advisors are Jeff Lidz and Alexander Williams. I work on

• Syntax and semantics.
  I am especially interested in quantification, ellipsis, and degree constructions.
  Comparative quantifiers (like more and most) involve all of these.
  I have also worked on (pseudo)partitives, event semantics, tense and modality, and questions.

• 'Internalist' experimental semantics.
  I run psychophysical experiments to investigate how we understand quantifiers.
  This work builds on what is known in the cognitive science of visual perception and number.
  This is all done in service of a view of word- and sentence-meaning as a mental representation.

• Indic linguistics.
  I have worked on Gujarati and Hindi.
  Here I have looked at auxiliaries, degree-modifiers, ellipsis, infixation, tense and modality, and questions,.

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 am still very interested in issues in philosophy of language and philosophy of cognitive science.

My advisor during my undergraduate degree was 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!