papers
Kidwai, S., & Sobolak, F. (2024). The unique functionality of Urdu light verb jaa and Voice head variation. In S. Basu, & A. Kulkarni (Eds.) Proceedings of (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 13. [link]
Kidwai, S. (2022c). A Survey of Urdu Subjects and their Properties. In E. Banerjee, A. Cairncross, S. Kidwai, & C. Triantafyllidou (Eds.), The Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 14(2), 27–70. [pdf]
Kidwai, S. (2022b). A Case for Bare Accusatives in Hindi-Urdu. In I. Guha, S. Kidwai, & M. Schwarz (Eds.), Proceedings of (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 10. [link]
Kidwai, S. (2022a). The Urdu Active Impersonal. In S. Alam, Y. Sinha, & S. Srinivas (Eds.), Proceedings of (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 11. [link]
Nguyen, L., Bryant, C., Kidwai, S., & Biberauer, T. (2021). Automatic Language Identification in Code-Switched Hindi-English Social Media Texts. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 7(7). [link]
Kidwai, S. (2020). Case-Mismatching in Urdu Sluicing. In A. Cairncross, & S. Kidwai (Eds.), The Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 12(2), 47–78. [pdf]
theses
| 2019 | Double Agents in Urdu Case: -ko and ∅. (MPhil thesis) University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [pdf] Supervisor: Theresa Biberauer |
| 2018 | Case-(Mis)Matching in Urdu Sluicing. (BA thesis) University College London, London, UK. [pdf] Supervisor: Klaus Abels Awarded: LAGB Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics |
talks and posters
Disclaimer: These are all works in progress. Many of these ideas have changed significantly since the time of presentation. Please contact me for a more updated version of these ideas.
| Jun 2023 | Investigating the v-related phase in Hindi-Urdu. Invited talk given at Workshop on Verbal Domains, Newcastle University. [handout] |
| Apr 2023 | Urdu light verbs reveal Voice head variation with Frances Sobolak. Talk given at (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 13 ((F)ASAL-13), University of Michigan. [abstract; handout] |
| Feb 2023 | DOM and related issues in Urdu. Talk given at SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge. [handout] |
| Oct 2022 | Intervention in Accusative Case Assignment in Urdu. Talk given at Syntax and Morphology Circle (SMircle), Stanford University. [handout] |
| Sep 2022 | Marked Anticausatives in Urdu. Talk given at Syntax and Semantics Circle (SSCircle), University of California, Berkeley. [handout] |
| Jun 2022 | What is a Subject? A Survey of Urdu Subjects. Poster presented at Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference 22 (LELPGC-22), University of Edinburgh. [poster; handout] |
| May 2022 | What is a Subject? A Survey of Urdu Subjects. Talk given at SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge. [handout] |
| Mar 2021 | The Urdu Active Impersonal. Poster presented at (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 11 ((F)ASAL-11), online. [poster; handout] |
| Feb 2021 | The Urdu Active Impersonal. Poster presented at 46° Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, online. [poster] |
| Feb 2021 | The Urdu Active Impersonal. Talk given at SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge. [handout] |
| Jun 2020 | Accusative case and the verbal domain in Hindi-Urdu. Talk given at SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [handout] |
| Mar 2020 | A case for bare accusatives in Hindi-Urdu. Poster presented at (Formal) Approaches to South Asian Languages 10 ((F)ASAL-10), online. [poster; handout] |
| Feb 2020 | Using Case as a Diagnostic in Urdu Sluicing. Poster presented at The Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics (COPiL) Poster Event 2020, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [poster] |
| Nov 2019 | Automatic Language Identification in Code-Switched Hindi-English Social Media Texts with Bryant, C., Nguyen, L., and Biberauer, T. Poster presented at Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [poster] |
| May 2019 | Resolving -ko in Urdu. Talk given at SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [handout 1; handout 2] |
funding awards
For the full list, see my CV.
| 2023 | Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Research Area Workshop Funding For When linguistic theory meets computational practice (LiTComP) As lead organiser, with Li Nguyen and Rami Aly. |
| 2020 | Linguistics Association of Great Britain Student Conference Sponsorship For The Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics Poster Event 2020 As co-lead organiser, with Alexander Cairncross. |
| 2019 - 2023 | Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship Fully funded PhD grant. |
| 2019 | Cambridge Language Sciences Incubator Fund As research assistant, with Li Nguyen (co-PI), Theresa Biberauer (co-PI), and Christopher Bryant. |
research assistantships
| 2019 | Automatic Language Identification in Code-Switched Hindi-English Social Media Primary Investigators: Li Nguyen, Theresa Biberauer. Funded by Cambridge Language Sciences Incubator Fund. |
| 2017 | Building Urdu numbers corpus for automatic speech recognition banking system Supervisors: Sahar Rauf, Sana Shams. Center for Language Engineering, University of Technology and Engineering, Pakistan. |
| 2017 | EVOTION: Towards a holistic management of hearing loss Supervisors: Stuart Rosen, Tim Green. Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL, UK. |