Sharvit is known for her work on tense, including embedded tense (Sharvit 1999), or bound tense (Alxatib & Sharvit 2017), tense in
free indirect discourse (Sharvit 2008) and cross-linguistic typologies of tense. She has also contributed to the semantics of questions (Sharvit 2002),
relative clauses (Sharvit 1997), attitude reports (Charlow & Sharvit 2014),
negative polarity items (Guerzoni & Sharvit 2007),
resumptive pronouns (Sharvit 1999), and
superlatives (Sharvit & Stateva 2002, Bumford & Sharvit 2022). == Honors and distinctions ==