Papers & Presentations

Journal Papers

Accepted

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

Conference Proceedings

2026

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

2025

  1. Sharma, Aidan. 2025. Familiar Definite Marking in Magahi. Proceedings of FASAL 14.
    Paper

Conference Presentations

2026

  1. Sharma, Aidan. 2026. A Split Scope Semantics for Determiner Spreading. Talk at NELS 57. October 16-18. CUNY.
    Handout
  2. Sharma, Aidan & Jiayuan Chen. 2026. Deriving Anti-uniqueness and Non-honorificity in the Magahi Definite Marker -wā. Talk at SALT 36. July 29-31. University of Buenos Aires.
    Slides
  3. Sharma, Aidan & Jiayuan Chen. 2026. Relating Anti-uniqueness and Non-honorificity to Definiteness Marking in Magahi. Talk at SULA-TripleA 2026. May 12-15. University of British Columbia.
    Slides
  4. Sharma, Aidan & Jiayuan Chen. 2026. Bare Nouns in Magahi: Quasi-names or Anti-uniqueness?. Poster at WCCFL 44. May 6-8. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
    Poster
  5. Sharma, Aidan. 2026. (In)Definiteness Spreading and Multiple Classifier Constructions. Poster at GLOW 48. April 21-23. Università di Siena.
    Poster
  6. Ye, Ariela & Aidan Sharma. 2026. A Binary Analysis of dep in Kazakh: Category V or C. Poster at Tu+ 11. April 11-12. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  7. Sharma, Aidan. 2026. Magahi (In)Definiteness Spreading. Talk at FASAL 16. April 10-11. University of Southern Carolina.
    Handout
  8. Sharma, Aidan & Ariela Ye. 2026. From Converb to Complementizer: On the Syntactic Flexibility of dep in Kazakh. Talk at LSA 2026. January 8-11. New Orleans.

2025

  1. Sharma, Aidan. 2025. Magahi Determiner Spreading. Talk at TripleA 12. September 10-12. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
    Slides
  2. Ye, Ariela, Aidan Sharma & Jiayuan Chen. 2025. Definiteness and Familiarity in Yemba. Talk at TripleA 12. September 10-12. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
    Handout
  3. Sharma, Aidan & Ariela Ye. 2025. Extra cái Definites in Vietnamese. Talk at TEAL 14. March 18-20. University of Southern California.
    Handout
  4. Sharma, Aidan & Merlin Balkhash. 2025. Kazakh DP Reciprocals and Reciprocal Shift. Talk at Tu+ 10. March 1-2. University of Southern California.
    Handout

2024

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

Other Presentations

  1. Sharma, Aidan. Maximal Readings of Numerals with Additive Morphemes. Poster at MACSIM 12.
    Poster
  2. Sharma, Aidan. Uniform (In)Definiteness Spreading in Magahi. Talk at Yale SynRG.
    Handout