{"id":14415,"date":"2022-02-22T06:08:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T11:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14415"},"modified":"2022-02-27T19:48:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T00:48:36","slug":"linglunch-02-24-madeline-bossi-uc-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/02\/22\/linglunch-02-24-madeline-bossi-uc-berkeley\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 2\/24: Madeline Bossi (UC Berkeley)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Madeline Bossi (UC Berkeley)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Thursday February 24, 12:30-1:50pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461, <a href=\"https:\/\/mit.zoom.us\/j\/94474505971\">https:\/\/mit.zoom.us\/j\/94474505971<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Negative bias and pragmatic reasoning in Kipsigis belief reports<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Much work has explored how belief reports of the form\u00a0<em>x V-att p<\/em>\u00a0function pragmatically not just as reports of\u00a0<em>x<\/em>\u0092s internal state, but as devices for indicating the status of\u00a0<em>p<\/em>\u00a0with respect to the Common Ground (CG). In addition to the well-studied case of factive verbs, which presuppose\u00a0<em>p<\/em>, recent work has explored negatively biased belief verbs, which suggest that\u00a0<em>p<\/em>\u00a0cannot or should not be added to the CG (e.g. Kierstead 2013, Hsiao 2017, Anvari et al. 2019, Glass 2020). Drawing from original fieldwork, I show that the negatively biased belief verb\u00a0<em>p?r<\/em>\u00a0\u0091think\u0092 in Kipsigis (Kalenjin; Kenya) is best modeled as contributing, in addition to its basic belief semantics, an instruction for CG management:\u00a0<em>p<\/em>\u00a0is not to be added to the CG. Together with context-sensitive pragmatic reasoning, this instruction explains the curious case of a verb that can be used both to suggest that\u00a0<em>p<\/em>\u00a0is false and to remind the addressee that\u00a0<em>p<\/em>\u00a0is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Madeline Bossi (UC Berkeley) Date and time: Thursday February 24, 12:30-1:50pm Location: 32-D461, https:\/\/mit.zoom.us\/j\/94474505971 Title: Negative bias and pragmatic reasoning in Kipsigis belief reports Abstract: Much work has explored how belief reports of the form\u00a0x V-att p\u00a0function pragmatically not just as reports of\u00a0x\u0092s internal state, but as devices for indicating the status of\u00a0p\u00a0with respect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14548,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions\/14548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}