We focus on a sui generis grounding move in Hindi-Urdu dialogue, namely voh hi na. A
dataset consisting of minimal pairs of dialogues is presented to get a better sense of the …

This paper investigates the prosody of polar questions (PolQs) in comparison to alternative
questions (AltQs) in Urdu. Inspired by [1], who claim that Urdu/Hindi AltQs are disjunctions of …

This paper focuses on the syntactic distribution and corresponding interpretative possibilities
of Urdu/Hindi polar kya 'what'. Building on previous work on prosodic and pragmatic …

Russian questions with the particle'razve'appear to convey negative bias in conflicting
evidence scenarios, thus bearing superficial resemblance to English questions …

This study aims to address the following question: what are the licensing conditions for the
Urdu/Hindi polar question particle kya's multiple concept selection behaviour? More …

This paper extends LFG's abilities to include information coming directly from the speech
signal (Bogel 2015, 2022; Butt & Biezma 2022). We do this by developing an analysis and …

This paper presents a study into the Hindi-Urdu'na'as a sentence-final particle. Although
also used as a topic marker and negation,'na'occurs sentence-finally across clause-types. In …