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.
Embedded Files
Book Reviews
Review of Icelandic Nominalizations and Allosemy (LINGUIST List).
For a full list of my work, see my CV.
Presentations
2025
Recursion in NP: pseudopartitive measures require complementation, not specification. Poster presented at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 43 (WCCFL43), University of Washington, Seattle.
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 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
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]
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