Fabio Del Prete Chargé de recherche au Laboratoire CLLE

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Présentation

I am a CNRS researcher in linguistics and a member of the Cognition, Languages, Language, and Ergonomics Laboratory (CLLE) in Toulouse. I earned a Ph.D. in philosophy in 2006 from the University of Milan, with a dissertation on the semantics of the Italian temporal connectives prima (‘before’) and dopo (‘after’). I have also completed training and research stays at Stanford University and at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris. My specialization in philosophy is the analytic philosophy of language, a formal approach that uses logical analysis to study language, with the aim to shed light on the semantic content of utterances, their functions in communication and their pragmatic implications, as well as how the content of an utterance may depend on the context in which it is made and how its truth value may depend on the context in which it is evaluated. My training also covers temporal logic and modal logic, theories that focus on formalizing reasoning based on the concepts of past, present, and future, and what is possible and what is necessary. I have been working for over two decades on the semantic and pragmatic analysis of natural language, with research on Italian, Sicilian, Portuguese, French, and English. My research topics include tense, aspect, and modality. Some of my work addresses issues of grammaticalization and semantic change—that is, how certain expressions that originally had concrete lexical content come to acquire a more abstract, grammatical meaning.

Situated at the intersection of linguistics, philosophy, and logic, my research has developed around several key areas:

(a) Temporal connectives and discourse connectives: the temporal order of events based on relations of anteriority and succession, and the transition from this order to the notions of (un)persistence of a proposition’s truth in discourse.(b) The temporal localization of events, the representation of their internal structure, and the interaction between the temporal and modal dimensions.(c) Temporality and gradability, scalar structure.(d) The representation of personal pronouns as variables, the role of context in determining the value of free pronouns, the modal structure of assignment functions and the mechanisms of pronoun binding and quantification.(e) Complex verbal predicates and descriptions of complex events; the semantics of complex predicates constructed with aspectual verbs and verbs of motion.(f) The history and origins of the concept of conversational implicature.(g) The comparison between the behavior of human speakers and that of artificial intelligence systems.

My works in the areas above reflect interdisciplinary interests:

(tr1) The categories of time and modality serve as bridging concepts that have facilitated the exchange of ideas between the formal study of linguistic structures, the philosophical analysis of notions such as succession and simultaneity, past, present, and future, and possibility and necessity, and the logical modeling of reasoning based on these notions.(tr2) The category of quantification involves grammar (what is the status of quantificational expressions vis-à-vis the referential expressions), philosophy (what is the logical form of propositions containing quantifiers), and logic (how to model quantification in natural languages in a way that correctly represents the inferential relations between quantified sentences in those languages).(tr3) The category of indexicality, which manifests itself in the dependence of the interpretation of linguistic structures on the context of utterance, requires that we take into account both the formal features of language and the speakers’ situation in the world, with all the complexity that this latter aspect entails.(tr4) The phenomenon of implicatures has a long history, spanning the study of the rhetorical and non-truth-conditional functions of language, philosophers’ analytical distinctions between different levels of meaning (including the key distinction between conventional or literal meaning and non-literal or figurative meaning), and logicians’ attempts to model the inferential relationships characteristic of implicatures in relation to deductive logical relationships.(tr5) Comparing humans and AI is a more recent aspect of my work; the goal is not only to evaluate the performance of AI systems, but also to test their cognitive plausibility: to what extent do these systems process language in a manner comparable to that of humans? This type of question builds on my earlier work in semantics and pragmatics, where I have relied on speakers’ intuitions or corpus data to test hypotheses about the construction of meaning.

Publications

Article dans une revue (12)

Book review of Marco Favaro (2023) &quot;Modal particles in Italian. Adverbs of illocutionary modification and sociolinguistic variation Fabio Del Prete Romanische Forschungen, In press Article dans une revue (compte-rendu de lecture) hal-05272890v1
‘Must’ implies ‘can’ Miklos Kurthy,Fabio Del Prete,Luca Barlassina Mind and Language, 2022, 38 (3), pp.620-643. ⟨10.1111/mila.12415⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03080446v1
Gender in conditionals Fabio Del Prete,Sandro Zucchi Linguistics and Philosophy, 2021, 44, pp.953-980. ⟨10.1007/s10988-020-09307-6⟩ Article dans une revue hal-02095923v2
Building complex events: the case of Sicilian Doubly Inflected Construction Fabio Del Prete,Giuseppina Todaro Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2020, 38 (1), pp.1-41. ⟨10.1007/s11049-018-09439-2⟩ Article dans une revue hal-01877826v2
Temporal location of events in language and (non) persistence of the past Fabio Del Prete Critical hermeneutics, 2020, Unchangeability of the Past: Human and Natural Sciences in Comparison, 4 (II (special issue)), pp.25-68. ⟨10.13125/CH/4493⟩ Article dans une revue hal-02141238v1
Predicting the end : Epistemic change in Romance Patricia Amaral,Fabio Del Prete Semantics and Pragmatics, 2020, 13 (11), pp.1-50. ⟨10.3765/sp.13.11⟩ Article dans une revue hal-02151379v3
A unified non monstrous semantics for third person pronouns Fabio Del Prete,Sandro Zucchi Semantics and Pragmatics, 2017, ⟨10.3765/sp.10.10⟩ Article dans une revue hal-01338087v1
On truth unpersistence: At the crossroads of epistemic modality and discourse Patricia Amaral,Fabio Del Prete Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2016, pp.1135-1165. ⟨10.1007/s11049-015-9325-5⟩ Article dans une revue hal-01289163v1
The puzzle of the changing past Luca Barlassina,Fabio Del Prete Analysis, 2015, pp.59-67. ⟨10.1093/analys/anu105⟩ Article dans une revue hal-01088863v1
Approximating the limit: the interaction between quasi 'almost' and some temporal connectives in Italian Patricia Amaral,Fabio Del Prete Linguistics and Philosophy, 2010, 33 (2), pp.51-115. ⟨10.1007/s10988-010-9075-0⟩ Article dans une revue ijn_00423400v2
Approximating the limit: the interaction between 'almost' and some temporal connectives in Italian Patrícia Amaral,Fabio Del Prete Linguistics and Philosophy, 2010, 33 (2), pp.51-115. ⟨10.1007/s10988-010-9075-0⟩ Article dans une revue hal-00644703v1
A non-uniform semantic analysis of the Italian temporal connectives Prima and Dopo Fabio Del Prete Natural Language Semantics, 2008, 16 (2), pp.157-203. ⟨10.1007/s11050-008-9030-6⟩ Article dans une revue ijn_00423377v1

Communication dans un congrès (16)

Acting without acting: Sicilian &quot;Mòviti fermo!&quot; `Move still!' between human judgment and language models Fabio Del Prete,Basilio Calderone Phronesis III: Language Rhetoric and Persuasion in Humans and Machines, The University of Chicago; Institut Jean Nicod, Feb 2026, Paris, France Communication dans un congrès hal-05498321v1
Mòviti fermo&quot;: non un’inversione, ma una deviazione Fabio Del Prete,Basilio Calderone Congresso internazionale di linguistica e di filologia romanza (CILFR), Société de Linguistique Romane, Jun 2025, Lecce (ITALY), Italy Communication dans un congrès hal-05272964v1
Age of acquisition and clausal order effects in temporal constructions: a cross-linguistic study in French Sign Language (LSF) and Italian Sign Language (LIS) Anastasia Parini,Juliette Dalle,Fabio Del Prete,Beatrice Giustolisi,Valentina Aristodemo FEAST 6 (Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory), University of Michigan, Aug 2024, Ann Arbor (MI), United States. pp.74 - 85., ⟨10.31009/FEAST.i6.07⟩ Communication dans un congrès hal-04693116v2
Future tense and modal forcing Fabio Del Prete,Giuseppe Spolaore CHRONOS 15: 15th International Conference on Actionality, Tense, Aspect, Modality/Evidentiality, CLLE; IRIT; CNRS; Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès, May 2024, Toulouse, France Communication dans un congrès hal-04697671v1
Apprehension in Romance: Bouletic and Epistemic Modality in Portuguese and Italian Patrícia Amaral,Fabio Del Prete 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 53), INALCO; Université Paris Cité; Université Sorbonne Nouvelle; Université Paris Saclay, Jun 2023, Paris, France Communication dans un congrès hal-04206331v1
Partiality, situations and branching time Fabio Del Prete Workshop Correlating possibilities (satellite workshop of OASIS 2), Oct 2019, Nantes, France Communication dans un congrès hal-02364440v1
Motion verb constructions and parameters of grammaticalization Silvio Cruschina,Fabio Del Prete Pseudo Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions 2, Mar 2019, Venice, Italy Communication dans un congrès hal-02120418v1
Future and indeterminateness Fabio Del Prete Indeterminatezza e relativismo, Oct 2017, Venice, Italy Communication dans un congrès hal-01669147v1
Now there will be trouble. Two puzzles of tense-modal forcing Fabio Del Prete,Giuseppe Spolaore 4th Annual IAPT Conference, International Association for the Philosophy of Time, Jun 2017, Gargnano del Garda, Italy Communication dans un congrès hal-01545360v1
Gender in conditionals Fabio Del Prete,Sandro Zucchi Gender in conditionals, Nov 2017, Sheffield, United Kingdom Communication dans un congrès hal-01637178v1
Open future and modal interpretation of future tensed sentences Fabio Del Prete Open Future Workshop, Centre for Philosophy of Time, May 2017, Milan, Italy Communication dans un congrès hal-01545115v1
Modality, presupposition and discourse. Patrícia Amaral,Fabio Del Prete 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), May 2015, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. ⟨10.1075/rllt.12.01ama⟩ Communication dans un congrès hal-01515684v1
No longer true (ECAP) Luca Barlassina,Fabio Del Prete ECAP 8 : 8th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, European Society for Analytic Philosophy, Aug 2014, Bucharest, Romania Communication dans un congrès hal-03953693v1
The Puzzle of quasi prima 'almost before' and quasi dopo 'almost after Patricia Amaral,Fabio Del Prete Semantics and Linguistic Theory 19, Apr 2009, Columbus, United States. pp.19-36 Communication dans un congrès hal-00952738v1
Non-monotonic futures Fabio Del Prete PALMYR IX: Logic and the Use of Language, ILLC, Amsterdam; Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, Jun 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands Communication dans un congrès hal-01408355v1
Relativizing truth of future-tensed sentences Fabio Del Prete Second Paris-Barcelona Picasso workshop : New perspectives on Relativism and Context-Dependency., Oct 2009, Paris, France Communication dans un congrès hal-00995695v1

Poster de conférence (2)

Difference and incrementality: a study of the polysemy of &quot;altro&quot; ('other') in Italian Fabio Del Prete,Fabio Montermini 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Jun 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, United States. Poster de conférence hal-04206290v1
Iconicity and age of exposure effects in LSF temporal constructions Valentina Aristodemo,Juliette Dalle,Fabio Del Prete,Hélène Giraudo,Beatrice Giustolisi ICSLA4 : International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition 2022, Jun 2022, on-line conference, United States Poster de conférence hal-03929146v1

Proceedings/Recueil des communications (2)

Universal and Existential Readings of Donkey-Sentences and the Role of a Structural Form of Domain Restriction in the Explanation of Some Distributional Anomalies Fabio Del Prete P.J.E. Dekker; R.A.M. van Rooij. Fourteenth Amsterdam Colloquium, 2003, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam: ILLC, 2003, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Amsterdam Colloquium Proceedings/Recueil des communications hal-02364446v1
On a Unified Semantic Treatment of Donkey Sentences in a Dynamic Framework Fabio Del Prete Balder ten Cate. ESSLLI 2003 Student Session, 2003, Wien, Austria. University of Vienna, 2003, Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2003 Student Session Proceedings/Recueil des communications hal-02364442v1

Ouvrages (1)

Genericity Alda Mari,Claire Beyssade,Fabio Del Prete Alda Mari, Claire Beyssade, Fabio Del Prete. Oxford University Press, pp.464, 2013, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, David Adger, Hagit Borer, 978-0-19-969180-7. ⟨10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691807.001.0001⟩ Ouvrages hal-00992403v1

Chapitre d'ouvrage (10)

One meaning and the other: a corpus-based study of the polysemy of &quot;altro&quot; ('other') in Italian Fabio Del Prete,Fabio Montermini Patricia Amaral. ‘Other’: Ambiguity, constraints, and change, Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 45, Brill, pp.295 - 333, 2025, 978-90-04-74419-6. ⟨10.1163/9789004744196⟩ Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04206222v3
Imperfect in Italian irrealis conditionals Fabio Del Prete,Silvia Federzoni Ghanshyam Sharma; Michela Ippolito. Tense and aspect in Counterfactuals, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, In press, Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 978-3-11-133538-4 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04232678v2
Sur le chemin de la pensée Gricéenne Julie Hunter,Fabio Del Prete Claire Beyssade. Les implicatures : au delà du sens littéral, Les concepts fondateurs de la philosophie du langage (8), ISTE Group, pp.11-42, 2020, Sciences cognitives, 9781784057107 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-02471843v2
Now there will be trouble Giuseppe Spolaore,Fabio Del Prete Patrick Blackburn, Per Hasle and Peter Øhrstrøm. Logic and Philosophy of Time: Further Themes from Prior, Vol. 2, Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp.127-143, 2019, Logic and Philosophy of Time: Further Themes from Prior, Vol. 2, 978-87-7210-265-8 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01810860v2
The morphosyntax-semantics interface and the Sicilian Doubly Inflected Construction * Giuseppina Todaro,Fabio Del Prete Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces, Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.131-154, 2019, Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 9789027201768 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-01810882v1
On Truth Persistence. A comparison between European Portuguese and Italian in relation to sempre. Patricia Amaral,Fabio Del Prete M.-H. Côté, É. Mathieu, S. Poplack. Variation within and across Romance Languages. Selected papers from the 41st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014, 9789027248527. ⟨10.1075/cilt.333.11ama⟩ Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-00954657v1
The interpretation of indefinites in future tense sentences: A novel argument for the modality of will? Fabio Del Prete Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine, and Saghie Sharifzadeh. Future Times, Future Tenses, Oxford University Press, 2014, Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought, 9780199679157. ⟨10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679157.003.0003⟩ Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-00920890v3
Introduction Alda Mari,Claire Beyssade,Fabio Del Prete Genericity, Oxford University Press, 2012, Genericity, 9780199691807 Chapitre d'ouvrage ijn_02161789v1
Introduction Alda Mari,Claire Beyssade,Fabio Del Prete Alda Mari, Claire Beyssade, Fabio Del Prete. Genericity, Oxford University Press, pp.1-92, 2012, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 978-0-19-969180-7. ⟨10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691807.003.0001⟩ Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-00992406v1
Imperfectivity and Habituality in Italian Fabio Del Prete Alda Mari, Claire Beyssade, Fabio Del Prete. Genericity, Oxford University Press, pp.222-249, 2012, 978-0-19-969181-4. ⟨10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691807.003.0008⟩ Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-00920848v1

Pré-publication, Document de travail (2)

Monsters begat by quantifiers? Fabio Del Prete,Alessandro Zucchi 2014 Pré-publication, Document de travail hal-00965284v1
No longer true Luca Barlassina,Fabio Del Prete 2014 Pré-publication, Document de travail hal-00965281v1

Rapport (4)

Now', forcing and causality Fabio Del Prete,Giuseppe Spolaore COCOA seminar. 2023 Rapport (rapport de recherche) hal-04697650v1
Polysémie de l'italien &quot;altro&quot; ('autre') entre alternativité et incrémentalité Fabio Del Prete Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès. 2022 Rapport hal-03897741v1
Une analyse formelle et un test expérimental du principe &quot;Devoir implique Pouvoir Fabio Del Prete [Rapport de recherche] Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès. 2021 Rapport (rapport de recherche) hal-03511868v1
Relazione su &quot;Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic&quot; (Lewis 1968) Fabio Del Prete Università degli Studi di Milano. 2003 Rapport (rapport de recherche) hal-04481653v1

HDR (1)

Sémantique et pragmatique formelles du Temps, de l'Aspect et de la Modalité Fabio Del Prete Linguistique. Université de Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, 2022 HDR tel-03808652v1

Cours (1)

Complex event predications Fabio Del Prete Doctoral. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelone), Spain. 2024 Cours hal-04694238v1