Research

Journal Papers

Accepted

  1. Uyghur "Umlaut" as Vowel Reduction
    Aidan Sharma
    Phonology, Accepted
    Draft

Conference Proceedings

2026

  1. From converb to complementizer: On the syntactic flexibility of *dep* in Kazakh
    Ariela Ye and Aidan Sharma
    In Proceedings of the Linguistics Society of America, 2026
    PAPER

2025

  1. Familiar Definite Marking in Magahi
    Aidan Sharma
    In Proceedings of FASAL-14, 2025
    PAPER

Conference Presentations

2026

  1. Deriving Anti-uniqueness and Non-honorificity in the Magahi Definite Marker -wā
    Aidan Sharma and Jiayuan Chen
    Talk at SALT 36. July 29-31. University of Buenos Aires.
  2. Relating Anti-uniqueness and Non-honorificity to Definiteness Marking in Magahi
    Aidan Sharma and Jiayuan Chen
    Talk at SULA-TripleA 2026. May 12-15. University of British Columbia.
    Slides
  3. Bare Nouns in Magahi: Quasi-names or Anti-uniqueness?
    Aidan Sharma and Jiayuan Chen
    Poster at WCCFL 44. May 6-8. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
    Poster
  4. (In)Definiteness Spreading and Multiple Classifier Constructions
    Aidan Sharma
    Poster at GLOW 48. April 21-23. University of Siena.
    Poster
  5. A Binary Analysis of dep in Kazakh: Category V or C
    Ariela Ye and Aidan Sharma
    Poster at Tu+ 11. April 11-12. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    Poster
  6. Magahi (In)Definiteness Spreading
    Aidan Sharma
    Talk at FASAL 16. April 10-11. University of Southern Carolina.
    Handout
  7. From Converb to Complementizer: On the Syntactic Flexibility of dep in Kazakh
    Aidan Sharma and Ariela Ye
    Talk at LSA 2026. January 8-11. New Orleans.
    Slides

2025

  1. Magahi Determiner Spreading
    Aidan Sharma
    Talk at TripleA 12. September 10-12. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
    Slides
  2. Definiteness and Familiarity in Yemba
    Ariela Ye, Aidan Sharma, and Jiayuan Chen
    Talk at TripleA 12. September 10-12. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
    Handout
  3. Extra cái Definites in Vietnamese
    Aidan Sharma and Ariela Ye
    Talk at TEAL 14. March 18-20. University of Southern California.
    Handout
  4. Kazakh DP Reciprocals and Reciprocal Shift
    Aidan Sharma and Merlin Balkhash
    Talk at Tu+ 10. March 1-2. University of Southern California.
    Handout

2024

  1. Two Degree of Vowel Reduction in Uyghur: "Umlaut" as Moderate Reduction
    Aidan Sharma
    Talk at AMP 2024. November 1-3. Rutgers University.
    Slides
  2. Familiar Definite Marking in Magahi
    Aidan Sharma
    Talk at FASAL 14. April 4-6. Stony Brook University.
    Slides
  3. Uyghur Umlaut as Vowel Reduction
    Aidan Sharma
    Talk at Tu+ 9. March 22-24. Cornell University.
    Slides