Prerna Nadathur
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
Publications
19
Citations
90
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
10
Publishing since 2016
Prerna Nadathur works in linguistic semantics, focusing on how meaning, causality, and event structure interact in sentences—for example why verbs like 'manage to' or constructions like 'enough' and 'too' imply that something actually happened. This research combines formal logical analysis of sentence meaning with close examination of naturally occurring language data, including understudied languages such as O'dam.
Publication counts were sparse and irregular from 2017-2022 (0-1 per year) but spiked sharply in 2023 with 12 outputs, likely reflecting a concentrated body of work such as a dissertation or book, followed by a return to a more modest pace in 2024-2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Reanalyzing frustration: Event maximality and inertia in two O’dam frustratives
Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory · 2025
- Implicative inferences and causality in enough and too constructions
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium · 2025
- Actuality Entailments
Annual Review of Linguistics · 2024
- Actuality Inferences
2023
- Causal Semantics for Implicative Verbs
Journal of Semantics · 2023
- Ability, actuality, and implicativity
2023
- Sources for naturally occurring examples
2023
- Causal dependence in implicative inferences
2023
- Conclusion
2023
- Notes on causal necessity
2023
- Aspect and actuality inferences
2023
- Variable implicativity in<i>enough</i>and<i>too</i>constructions
2023
- The semantics of<i>enough</i>and<i>too</i>constructions
2023
- Introduction
2023
- Setting the stage
2023
- Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory×3
- Glossa a journal of general linguistics×1
- Journal of Semantics×1
- Annual Review of Linguistics×1
- Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium×1
- Craige Roberts
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
- Emily A. Hanink
Arts and Humanities · Indiana University
- Laura Stigliano
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
- Andrea D. Sims
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
- Natsuko Tsujimura
Arts and Humanities · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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