Jyoti Iyer will speak in Semantics Workshop this week (Wednesday, 12:25 PM). The title of her talk is: Tamil additive –um and negative polarity.

“I will address the distribution of Tamil wh-NPIs and the issues it raises for existing frameworks. These NPIs are formed from a wh-phrase (with an additive particle) and therefore part of a larger crosslinguistically well-attested pattern. The puzzles here are to do with pinning down the contribution of the additive particle.”