Written work
Papers
Hindi-Urdu wh-scope markers license sluices: a new argument for indirect dependency. In press; Proceedings of FASAL 14 (2024). Submitted version.
Book Reviews
Review of Icelandic Nominalizations and Allosemy (LINGUIST List).
For a full list of my work, see my CV.
Presentations
2025
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 marking involves many interpreted A'-chains.
Poster presented at Formal Approaches to South Asian Linguistics 14 (FASAL 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.
Other
LaTeX for syntacticians: an overview document for a workshop at the University of Maryland Language Science Center in January 2024.
Outreach
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I was President of the Oxford University Linguistics Society. I organized some interviews with linguists and philosophers of language, conducted over Zoom.
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]