Todor Koev
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View article: Adverbs of change and dynamicity
Adverbs of change and dynamicity Open
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 f…
View article: 'Believe' is Strong but Subjective: Experimental Evidence from Hedging
'Believe' is Strong but Subjective: Experimental Evidence from Hedging Open
This paper contributes to the debate concerning whether the attitude verb believe has a weak or a strong semantics. According to Hawthorne et al. (2016), believe is weak and akin to the probability operator likely, typically receiving an “…
View article: Verum accent IS VERUM, but not always focus
Verum accent IS VERUM, but not always focus Open
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…
View article: Strong beliefs, weak commitments
Strong beliefs, weak commitments Open
The standard Hintikkan semantics views believe as a universal quantifier over possible worlds (Hintikka, 1969). This semantics (i) fails to capture the fact that believe is gradable (cf. partially believe or fully believe) and (ii) makes n…
View article: Adverbs of Change, Aspect, and Underspecification
Adverbs of Change, Aspect, and Underspecification Open
Adverbs of change, such as quickly or slowly, are known to give rise to a number of interpretations. For example, Selena ran quickly says that the rate of running is high while Selena quickly noticed the plane implies that the distance bet…
View article: Evidentiality and temporal distance learning
Evidentiality and temporal distance learning Open
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 Bulga…