Anaphoric variability in Kannada bare nominals

–For instance, contrastive topics may be taken to be in the topic situation by accommodating a suitable sub-QUD:(31) a. The interlocutors have a pet mouse and a pet cat. Each pet has been roaming around in one of the rooms of the house since morning. Question: Who is roaming where since morning? Sub-QUD: Where is the mouse roaming since morning? b. room-alliF room-LOC iliCT mouse oDaaDtide. roaming. COP (Matte and aDugemane-alli kitchen-LOC bekku cat oDaaDtide.) roaming. COP “The mouse is roaming in the room (and cat in the kitchen).”