Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 4, Rutgers University. 1 Multiple Focus in Hindi-Urdu 1 Sakshi Bhatia University of Massachusetts, Amherst 30 th March 2014 sakshibhatia@linguist.umass.edu  Bound focus readings involving association with a distant focus 2 show that sɪrf and other adverbial focus particles can attach on the clausal spine.  There is a subject versus non-subject asymmetry with respect to the bound readings.  Multiple focus particles in a single construction can give rise to both single and multiple exclusive readings. The interaction of postpositional and adverbial focus particles raises the question of when single exclusive meanings are available and necessary.  The class of adverbial focus particles is non-uniform - sɪrf and bəs differ in their syntactic distribution and associated meanings. 1. Introduction Focus particles corresponding to only in Hindi-Urdu A. Postpositional - hi (1) [rita]F hi ayi Rita only come.perf.fs ǮOnly RITA came.ǯ B. Adverbial - sɪrf, bəs, kewal, matr, khali (2) sɪrf/ bəs/khali/kewəl/matr [rita]F ayi only Rita come.perf.fs ǮOnly RITA came.ǯ 1 Thanks are due to Sjef Barbiers, Rajesh Bhatt, Kyle Johnson, Ayesha Kidwai, participants of the Syntax Reading Group at UMass for their helpful comments and insights, and to the Hindi speakers at LISSIM 7 for the initial discussion of the data. Transcriptions and glosses have been unified. 2 All usages of foĐus iŶ this paper refer to ďig/ĐoŶtrastive FOCUS