36.3306, Books: Biased Questions: Trinh, Benz, Goodhue, Yatsushiro and Krifka (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 28-Oct-2025
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [support at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Biased Questions: Trinh, Benz, Goodhue, Yatsushiro and Krifka (eds.) (2025)


Title: Biased questions
Subtitle: Experimental results and theoretical modelling
Series Title: Topics at the Grammar Discourse
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Language Science Press
           http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/487

Editor(s): Tue Trinh, Anton Benz, Daniel Goodhue, Kazuko Yatsushiro,
Manfred Krifka

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Abstract:

Asking a question means, essentially, presenting the hearer with a set
of propositions with the request that she choose from it those that
are true. It is a well-known fact about natural language that
questions can be "biased": the propositions presented are not all
equal, so to speak. For example, the speaker's belief, or contextual
evidence, might favor some against others. The formal means employed
by grammar to express such biases have been of interest to linguists
for a long time, and the investigation is still on-going. The
contributions in this volume all pertain to biased questions. They
grew out of talks presented at the workshop Biased Questions:
Experimental Results and Theoretical Modelling, which took place at
the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft as part of the ERC
project Speech Acts in Grammar and Discourse (SPAGAD). The papers are
written by mostly senior researchers of different expertise who have
previously published on the same topic, and explore this fascinating
linguistic phenomenon from a variety of theoretical angles:
pragmatics, semantics, syntax, phonology, psychology, and acquisition.
The languages under discussion include Chinese, English, Hungarian,
Russian, Turkish, and Vietnamese. The collection provides the reader
with a rich set of data and several open issues for future research.

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Written In: English (eng)



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