I am third year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Maryland. I'm interested in syntax, semantics, and the philosophy of language, and my work uses both analytical and experimental methods. My advisors are Jeff Lidz and Alexander Williams.

My work so far has focused on the following:

• Syntax and semantics. Within syntax, I am particularly interested in quantification, ellipsis, and 'compositionality below the word level'.  Words like more and most allow investigation into all of these.

Within semantics, my analytical work is primarily about adjectives, degree, and how this interacts with quantification. I have also been interested in event semantics, tense and modality, and questions.

• 'Internalist' experimental semantics. I look at how meaning interacts with extra-linguistic cognition (e.g. vision and number cognition). I run psychophysical experiments to investigate how we understand quantificational elements like more and most.

• Comparative Indic linguistics, and the morphosyntax and semantics 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!