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SUMMARY:Dr. Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)
DESCRIPTION:"Modality\, Veridicality\, and Bias"\n\nAnastasia Giannakido
u\, Ph.D.\n\nProfessor of Linguistics\n\nThe University of Chicago\n\nFr
iday\, November 3\n\n9:00–10:30 a.m. EDT\n\nFoster Auditorium\, 102 Pate
rno Library\n\nIn this lecture\, Anastasia Giannakidou will discuss thre
e empirical phenomena— polarity\, mood choice\, and modal sentences— aim
ing to show that the property of veridicality is central in properly und
erstanding and successfully analyzing them. She will argue that veridica
lity characterizes the state of knowledge\, and it represents epistemic
commitment of an agent to the truth of a proposition p. Modal verbs\, I
will argue following Giannakidou and Mari 2021\, are anti-knowledge mark
ers: they are indicators that speakers lack knowledge of p. Necessity mo
dals\, in addition\, convey bias towards p\, which is a preference of p
based on evidence\, yet not veridical commitment to it. The concept of b
ias is also useful for characterizing rhetorical effects in questions wh
ich will be discussed briefly at the end of the talk. The main languages
of illustration will be Greek\, English\, French\, and Italian.\n\nFor
more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/anastasia-giannakidou-univ
ersity-of-chicago/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:"Modality, Veridicality, and Bias"
Anastasia Giannakidou, Ph.D.Professor of Linguistics
The Universit
y of Chicago
Friday, N
ovember 3
9:00–10:30 a.m. EDT
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
In this lecture,
Anastasia Giannakidou will discuss three empirical phenomena— polarity,
mood choice, and modal sentences— aiming to show that the property of v
eridicality is central in properly understanding and successfully analyz
ing them. She will argue that veridicality characterizes the state of kn
owledge, and it represents epistemic commitment of an agent to the truth
of a proposition p. Modal verbs, I will argue following Giannakidou and
Mari 2021, are anti-knowledge markers: they are indicators that speaker
s lack knowledge of p. Necessity modals, in addition, convey bias toward
s p, which is a preference of p based on evidence, yet not veridical com
mitment to it. The concept of bias is also useful for characterizing rhe
torical effects in questions which will be discussed briefly at the end
of the talk. The main languages of illustration will be Greek, English,
French, and Italian.
For more details: https://even
ts.la.psu.edu/event/anastasia-giannakidou-university-of-chicago/
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