Research

Journal Papers

Accepted

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

Conference Proceedings

Submitted

  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, Submitted
    Draft

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
  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
    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