**Q&A:** Wednesday, July 22, 10.30 am CEST
[**Video also on YouTube**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBIFLRFkKkc)
The expression *yinna'ang* in Tibetan is (a) a discourse particle expressing counterexpection (‘however’), (b) a concessive scalar particle and (c) forms universal free choice items together with wh-words. Morphologically, *yinna'ang* is a transparent combination of a copula, conditional ending, and ‘even.’ In this talk, I document these uses of *yinna'ang* from original fieldwork and propose a compositional semantics which derives this range of uses. I also discuss the extension of this analysis to similar expressions in Dravidian languages (Balusu 2019, 2020) and with Japanese demo, which cover the range of uses in (a–c) and also derive from similar ingredients.