Todor Koev
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 992977 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Todor Koev |
| PRENOMES | Todor |
| SOBRENOME | Koev |
| ASSINATURA | KOEV T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5510-1501 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Biased Questions Project Answers to Resolve Issues
The previous literature has distinguished between two types of bias in polar questions: “original bias”, which reflects the speaker’s prior belief regarding the truth of the answers, and “contextual bias”, which conveys freshly introduced evidence for or against a given answer. Building on these two fundamental biases and employing a novel diagnostic based on bare polar response particles, we argue for the existence of a third type of bias, which…
Adverbs of change and dynamicity
This paper makes two contributions, one empirical and one theoretical. The empirical focus is “adverbs of change”—modifiers such as quickly , slowly , and immediately , which characterize the change described by the modified predicate as fast or slow. Based on quickly as the most versatile exemplar, the paper develops a semantic account that is uniform both across and within such adverbs. Specifically, I argue that adverbs of change share a commo…
An Argument for a Strong Force Semantics of Believe
The English verb believe is usually taken to encode universal quantification over possibilities (Hintikka 1969) and thus it is predicted to carry a strong modal force. Faced with the intuition that believe feels weaker than uncontroversially strong modals like sure, Hawthorne et al. (2016) instead propose that believe carries a weak modal force, requiring that the agent’s degree of certainty exceed some vague standard and drawing a parallel to re…
Gradient at-issueness versus uncertainty about binary at-issueness
published
Verum Accent Is Verum, but Not Always Focus
This paper studies the occurrence of verum accent in declaratives and polar interrogatives. Verum accent exhibits two kinds of interpretational effect: (i) it requires an epistemic conflict across sentence types and (ii) it may also convey a negative speaker bias in polar interrogatives. We argue that the former effect is due to a presuppositional VERUM operator and that the latter effect arises from the possibility of said operator carrying pola…
Notions of at-issueness
Upon hearing the sentenceMessi, who once scored a goal with his hand, won the Ballon d'Or, the addressee is likely to interpret the main clause as conveying the "main point" and view the appositive relative clause as contributing secondary information. The intuition that some part of the utterance conveys the main point has recently been discussed in formal semantics and pragmatics under the label of "at-issueness." However, this label has been u…
Quotational indefinites
Evidentiality, Learning Events and Spatiotemporal Distance
The grammatical category of evidentiality is traditionally conceived as marking the 'information source' for the claim described by the sentence (see e.g. Anderson 1986; Willett 1988; Aikhenvald 2004). This article defends the view that evidentiality need not be a semantic primitive but can rather be pragmatically derived from the spatiotemporal distance between the event described by the sentence and the 'learning event', that is the event of th…
Experimental Evidence for the Truth Conditional Contribution and Shifting Information Status of Appositives
Appositive constructions (My friend Sophie, (who is) a classical violinist, performed a piece by Mozart) have stood at the center of debates concerning the range of possible meanings, and more specifically the status of not-at-issue entailments. However, it remains an open question what precisely their semantic and pragmatic contribution is to the sentence in which they appear. Here, we address this question head-on experimentally. We first inves…
Evidentiality and temporal distance learning
The grammatical category of evidentiality is traditionally defined as marking evidence type or related concepts (Anderson 1986, Willett 1988, Aikhenvald 2004). I argue against this received view as I show that evidential morphemes in Bulgarian mark the temporal distance between the time at which the speaker learned the described proposition and the topic time. I also demonstrate that Bulgarian evidentials represent projective/backgrounded content…
Evidentiality, Learning Events and Spatiotemporal Distance
The grammatical category of evidentiality is traditionally conceived as marking the 'information source' for the claim described by the sentence (see e.g. Anderson 1986; Willett 1988; Aikhenvald 2004). This article defends the view that evidentiality need not be a semantic primitive but can rather be pragmatically derived from the spatiotemporal distance between the event described by the sentence and the 'learning event', that is the event of th…
Notions of at-issueness
Upon hearing the sentenceMessi, who once scored a goal with his hand, won the Ballon d'Or, the addressee is likely to interpret the main clause as conveying the "main point" and view the appositive relative clause as contributing secondary information. The intuition that some part of the utterance conveys the main point has recently been discussed in formal semantics and pragmatics under the label of "at-issueness." However, this label has been u…
Evidentiality and temporal distance learning
The grammatical category of evidentiality is traditionally defined as marking evidence type or related concepts (Anderson 1986, Willett 1988, Aikhenvald 2004). I argue against this received view as I show that evidential morphemes in Bulgarian mark the temporal distance between the time at which the speaker learned the described proposition and the topic time. I also demonstrate that Bulgarian evidentials represent projective/backgrounded content…
Quotational indefinites
Evidentiality and temporal distance learning
The grammatical category of evidentiality is traditionally defined as marking evidence type or related concepts (Anderson 1986, Willett 1988, Aikhenvald 2004). I argue against this received view as I show that evidential morphemes in Bulgarian mark the temporal distance between the time at which the speaker learned the described proposition and the topic time. I also demonstrate that Bulgarian evidentials represent projective/backgrounded content…
Experimental Evidence for the Truth Conditional Contribution and Shifting Information Status of Appositives
Appositive constructions (My friend Sophie, (who is) a classical violinist, performed a piece by Mozart) have stood at the center of debates concerning the range of possible meanings, and more specifically the status of not-at-issue entailments. However, it remains an open question what precisely their semantic and pragmatic contribution is to the sentence in which they appear. Here, we address this question head-on experimentally. We first inves…
Evidentiality, Learning Events and Spatiotemporal Distance
The grammatical category of evidentiality is traditionally conceived as marking the 'information source' for the claim described by the sentence (see e.g. Anderson 1986; Willett 1988; Aikhenvald 2004). This article defends the view that evidentiality need not be a semantic primitive but can rather be pragmatically derived from the spatiotemporal distance between the event described by the sentence and the 'learning event', that is the event of th…
Quotational indefinites
Notions of at-issueness
Upon hearing the sentenceMessi, who once scored a goal with his hand, won the Ballon d'Or, the addressee is likely to interpret the main clause as conveying the "main point" and view the appositive relative clause as contributing secondary information. The intuition that some part of the utterance conveys the main point has recently been discussed in formal semantics and pragmatics under the label of "at-issueness." However, this label has been u…
Verum Accent Is Verum, but Not Always Focus
This paper studies the occurrence of verum accent in declaratives and polar interrogatives. Verum accent exhibits two kinds of interpretational effect: (i) it requires an epistemic conflict across sentence types and (ii) it may also convey a negative speaker bias in polar interrogatives. We argue that the former effect is due to a presuppositional VERUM operator and that the latter effect arises from the possibility of said operator carrying pola…
Gradient at-issueness versus uncertainty about binary at-issueness
published
An Argument for a Strong Force Semantics of Believe
The English verb believe is usually taken to encode universal quantification over possibilities (Hintikka 1969) and thus it is predicted to carry a strong modal force. Faced with the intuition that believe feels weaker than uncontroversially strong modals like sure, Hawthorne et al. (2016) instead propose that believe carries a weak modal force, requiring that the agent’s degree of certainty exceed some vague standard and drawing a parallel to re…
Adverbs of change and dynamicity
This paper makes two contributions, one empirical and one theoretical. The empirical focus is “adverbs of change”—modifiers such as quickly , slowly , and immediately , which characterize the change described by the modified predicate as fast or slow. Based on quickly as the most versatile exemplar, the paper develops a semantic account that is uniform both across and within such adverbs. Specifically, I argue that adverbs of change share a commo…
Biased Questions Project Answers to Resolve Issues
The previous literature has distinguished between two types of bias in polar questions: “original bias”, which reflects the speaker’s prior belief regarding the truth of the answers, and “contextual bias”, which conveys freshly introduced evidence for or against a given answer. Building on these two fundamental biases and employing a novel diagnostic based on bare polar response particles, we argue for the existence of a third type of bias, which…
Computer Science (7 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Linguistics (5 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (4 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 obras) · Bulgarian (3 obras) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (3 obras) · Mathematics (3 obras) · Epistemology (2 obras)