{"id":18263,"date":"2026-09-28T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=18263"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:38:08","slug":"lfrg-prarthanaa-bharadwaj-goethe-university-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/09\/28\/lfrg-prarthanaa-bharadwaj-goethe-university-frankfurt\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG - Prarthanaa Bharadwaj (Goethe University, Frankfurt)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Speaker<\/b>: Prarthanaa Bharadwaj (Goethe University, Frankfurt)\u00a0<\/div>\n
Title:<\/b>\u00a0Polyfunctionality of the Particles -oo<\/i>\u00a0and -uu<\/i>: The Indeterminate sytem in Kannada\u00a0<\/div>\n
Time: <\/b>Wednesday, September 30, 1-2pm\u00a0<\/div>\n
Location:<\/b>\u00a032-D461<\/div>\n
Zoom link: <\/b>https:\/\/mit.zoom.us\/j\/<\/b><\/a>92053685079<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n
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Abstract:\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
In his seminal typology, Haspelmath (1997) observed that indefinite pronouns in many languages are built from interrogatives combined with focus-sensitive particles, and that the same building blocks yield negative polarity items (NPIs) and free choice items (FCIs). Work on such indeterminate systems has shown that they also extend to question formation (Kuroda, 1965; Kratzer & Shimoyama, 2002; Cable, 2010) and relative clauses (Slade, 2011; Dayal, 1997; Caponigro, 2003; Balusu, 2021). In this talk, I examine indeterminates in Kannada (Dravidian) from the perspective of the particles that license them. I present the paradigm of the disjunctive particle -oo<\/i> and the inclusive particle -uu<\/i> across coordination, indefinites, questions, inclusive focus, and relative clauses, and show that both the presence of a wh-word and the particle\u0092s height of attachment determine its interpretation: -oo can occupy the clause-typing position, where it forms questions, whereas -uu never can. I then assess how far two existing accounts\u0097Uegaki\u0092s (2018) unified semantics of the Japanese Q-particle ka and Balusu\u0092s (2022) analysis of Dravidian NPIs\/FCIs as unconditionals can jointly account for the Kannada paradigm.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Prarthanaa Bharadwaj (Goethe University, Frankfurt)\u00a0 Title:\u00a0Polyfunctionality of the Particles -oo\u00a0and -uu: The Indeterminate sytem in Kannada\u00a0 Time: Wednesday, September 30, 1-2pm\u00a0 Location:\u00a032-D461 Zoom link: https:\/\/mit.zoom.us\/j\/92053685079 \u00a0 Abstract:\u00a0 In his seminal typology, Haspelmath (1997) observed that indefinite pronouns in many languages are built from interrogatives combined with focus-sensitive particles, and that the same building blocks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18264,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18263\/revisions\/18264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}