Aidan Sharma
PhD Student
Rutgers Linguistics
aidan.sharma@rutgers.edu
I’m a fourth year Linguistics PhD student at Rutgers University. I’m primarily interested in Eastern Indo-Aryan languages and Central Asian Turkic languages. My theoretical interests are mostly in syntax and semantics, but I have done some P-side work as well.
At Rutgers, I’m a member of the Meaning Across Languages Lab run by Dorothy Ahn and the Fieldwork Lab run by Maria Kouneli and Ryan Walter Smith.
Before 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.
Upcoming
- I’ll be presenting a poster on (In)Definiteness Spreading and Multiple Classifier Constructions at GLOW 48.
- I’ll be presenting with Jiayuan Chen at WCCFL 44, SULA-TripleA 2026, and SALT 36 on anti-uniqueness and non-honorificity in the Magahi definite marker -waa.