[PLing] Talk by Ilaria Frana, June 5 at 12:30 (CEST)

[Madeleine Butschety]

Dear colleagues, 

we cordially invite you to a talk by Ilaria Frana (University of Enna "Kore") as part of the Jezik & Linguistics Colloquia series. Her talk titled "Bias and evidential meaning in questions. The view from Italian" (abstract: see below) will take place this week on Thursday, June 5, at 13:15 (CEST) at lecture room P7 at the University of Nova Gorica (Kompas building), and online. 

To join via Zoom, please use the following link (no registration required): 
https://ungsi.zoom.us/j/94371352040?pwd=InyOxby5UPuKFBAmlugnTBjbdb1naP.1 

We hope to see many of you there! 

Best, 
Madeleine Butschety, on behalf of the Center for Cognitive Science of Language 

>>ABSTRACT: Ilaria Frana 
"Bias and evidential meaning in questions. The view from Italian" 

This talk brings together two threads of research on the pragmatics of questions: biased questions, and evidential questions. Drawing on prior work (Frana and Rawlins 2019, 2025), it is argued that these two categories have considerably more overlap than might be expected. Certain kinds of biased questions can and should be analyzed in terms of epistemic markers that have many core properties of evidentials: providing an information source for a prejacent proposition as not-at-issue content, and participating in interrogative flip of the perspective in questions. In some languages, such as Italian, this interacts with more traditional evidentials in complicated ways, leading to a more developed typology of possible readings of evidential-like questions. 
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