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9780191738432

Modals and Conditionals New and Revised Perspectives

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    9780191738432

  • ISBN10:

    0191738433

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2012-03-24
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


Angelika Kratzer, Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Angelika Kratzer was educated at the Universities of Munich, Konstanz, Heidelberg and Wellington/New Zealand and is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her areas of specialization are semantics and the syntax/semantics interface. Research interests include event and situation semantics, context dependency, modals and conditionals, argument structure, verbal inflectional morphology, cross-linguistic quantification, the typology of pronouns, and meaning and intonation. With Irene Heim, Angelika Kratzer is co-author of Semantics and Generative Grammar (Blackwell, 1998) and co-founder and co-editor of Natural Language Semantics.

Table of Contents


1. What Must and Can Must and Can Mean
2. The Notional Category of Modality
3. Partition and Revision: The Semantics of Counterfactuals
4. Conditionals
5. An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought
6. Facts: Particulars or Information Units?
References
Index

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