Aidan Sharma

I'm a second year PhD student in the Linguistics Department at Rutgers University. Before coming to Rutgers, I did my undergrad in math at UCLA, where I was also a member of the Russian Flagship Program. For the overseas portion of the program, I studied Russian for a summer then later a full academic year through Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. You can see a copy of my CV here.

As a linguist, I'm interested in less studied languages, particularly Turkic languages spoken in Central Asia and Indo-Aryan languages spoken in Bihar, India. My theoretical interests are primarily in syntax and semantics. Currently I'm working on the nominal domain and the relationship between classifiers and (in)definite expressions in Magahi. I have worked on phonology as well, currently on umlaut in Uyghur for my first Qualifying Paper supervised by Adam G. McCollum. I'm also a member of the Meaning Across Languages (MAL) lab here at Rutgers. Feel free to reach out via email at aidan.sharma@rutgers.edu!