Aidan Sharma
PhD Student | Rutgers Linguistics
aidan.sharma@rutgers.edu
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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. Currently I'm working on determiner spreading in Magahi.
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. You can see a copy of my CV here.
Feel free to reach out via email at aidan.sharma@rutgers.edu!
Upcoming Talks:
Upcoming Talks:
2026, May 12-15. With Jiayuan Chen. Relating Anti-uniqueness and Non-honorificity to Definiteness Marking in Magahi. Talk at SULA-Triple A 2026. University of British Columbia.
2026, May 6-7. With Jiayuan Chen. Bare Nouns in Magahi: Quasi-names or Anti-uniqueness?. Poster at WCCFL44. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
2026, April 21-23. (In)Definiteness Spreading and Multiple Classifier Constructions. Poster at GLOW48. University of Siena.
2026, April 11-12. With Ariela Ye. A Binary Analysis of dep in Kazakh: Category V or C. Poster at Tu+ 11. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2026, April 10-11. Magahi (In)Definiteness Spreading. Talk at FASAL 16. University of Southern Carolina.
Recent News:
Recent News:
My paper Uyghur "Umlaut" as Vowel Reduction was accepted at Phonology.
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