Angelika Kratzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3842284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angelika Kratzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angelika |
| FAMILY NAME | Kratzer |
| SIGNATURE | KRATZER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Farewell and Welcome
Deconstructing information structure
The paper argues that a core part of what is traditionally referred to as 'information structure' can be deconstructed into genuine morphosyntactic features that are visible to syntactic operations, contribute to discourse-related expressive meanings, and just happen to be spelled out prosodically in Standard American and British English. We motivate two features, [FoC] and [G], and we track the fate of those features at and beyond the syntax-sem…
The Notional Category of Modality
Modals and ConditionalsNew and Revised Perspectives
"This book contains updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzer's classic papers on modals and conditionals, including 'What 'must' and 'can' must and can mean, ' 'Partition and Revision, ' 'The Notional Category of Modality, ' 'Conditionals, ' 'An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought, ' and 'Facts: Particulars or Information Units?' The book's contents add up to some of the most important work on modals and conditionals in pa…
Making a Pronoun: Fake Indexicals as Windows into the Properties of Pronouns
This article argues that natural languages have two binding strategies that create two types of bound variable pronouns. Pronouns of the first type, which include local fake indexicals, reflexives, relative pronouns, and PRO, may be born with a “defective” feature set. They can acquire the features they are missing (if any) from verbal functional heads carrying standard λ-operators that bind them. Pronouns of the second type, which include long-d…
Expressives and Identity Conditions
April 01 2009 Expressives and Identity Conditions Christopher Potts, Christopher Potts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Ash Asudeh, Ash Asudeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Seth Cable, Seth Cable Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Yurie Hara, Yurie Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Eric McCready, Eric McCrea…
Phase theory and prosodic spellout: The case of verbs
In this article we will explore the consequences of adopting recent proposals by Chomsky, according to which the syntactic derivation proceeds in terms of phases. The notion of phase - through the associated notion of spellout - allows for an insightful theory of the fact that syntactic constituents receive default phrase stress not across the board, but as a function of yet-to-be-explicated conditions on their syntactic context. We will see that…
Constraining Premise Sets for Counterfactuals
This note is a reply to ‘On the Lumping Semantics of Counterfactuals’ by Makoto Kanazawa, Stefan Kaufmann and Stanley Peters. It shows first that the first triviality result obtained by Kanazawa, Kaufmann, and Peters is already ruled out by the constraints on admissible premise sets listed in Kratzer (1989). Second, and more importantly, it points out that the results obtained by Kanazawa, Kaufmann, and Peters are obsolete in view of the revised …
Interpreting focus: Presupposed or expressive meanings? A comment on Geurts and van der Sandt
Building Statives
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)
Semantics in Generative Grammar
Scope or Pseudoscope? Are there Wide-Scope Indefinites?
More Structural Analogies Between Pronouns and Tenses
No abstract.
Severing the External Argument from its Verb
Modality
An investigation of the lumps of thought
What ‘must’ and ‘can’ must and can mean
Phase theory and prosodic spellout: The case of verbs
In this article we will explore the consequences of adopting recent proposals by Chomsky, according to which the syntactic derivation proceeds in terms of phases. The notion of phase - through the associated notion of spellout - allows for an insightful theory of the fact that syntactic constituents receive default phrase stress not across the board, but as a function of yet-to-be-explicated conditions on their syntactic context. We will see that…
Making a Pronoun: Fake Indexicals as Windows into the Properties of Pronouns
This article argues that natural languages have two binding strategies that create two types of bound variable pronouns. Pronouns of the first type, which include local fake indexicals, reflexives, relative pronouns, and PRO, may be born with a “defective” feature set. They can acquire the features they are missing (if any) from verbal functional heads carrying standard λ-operators that bind them. Pronouns of the second type, which include long-d…
Deconstructing information structure
The paper argues that a core part of what is traditionally referred to as 'information structure' can be deconstructed into genuine morphosyntactic features that are visible to syntactic operations, contribute to discourse-related expressive meanings, and just happen to be spelled out prosodically in Standard American and British English. We motivate two features, [FoC] and [G], and we track the fate of those features at and beyond the syntax-sem…
Expressives and Identity Conditions
April 01 2009 Expressives and Identity Conditions Christopher Potts, Christopher Potts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Ash Asudeh, Ash Asudeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Seth Cable, Seth Cable Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Yurie Hara, Yurie Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Eric McCready, Eric McCrea…
What ‘must’ and ‘can’ must and can mean
An investigation of the lumps of thought
Modality
Severing the External Argument from its Verb
Scope or Pseudoscope? Are there Wide-Scope Indefinites?
More Structural Analogies Between Pronouns and Tenses
No abstract.
Semantics in Generative Grammar
Building Statives
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)
Interpreting focus: Presupposed or expressive meanings? A comment on Geurts and van der Sandt
Constraining Premise Sets for Counterfactuals
This note is a reply to ‘On the Lumping Semantics of Counterfactuals’ by Makoto Kanazawa, Stefan Kaufmann and Stanley Peters. It shows first that the first triviality result obtained by Kanazawa, Kaufmann, and Peters is already ruled out by the constraints on admissible premise sets listed in Kratzer (1989). Second, and more importantly, it points out that the results obtained by Kanazawa, Kaufmann, and Peters are obsolete in view of the revised …
Phase theory and prosodic spellout: The case of verbs
In this article we will explore the consequences of adopting recent proposals by Chomsky, according to which the syntactic derivation proceeds in terms of phases. The notion of phase - through the associated notion of spellout - allows for an insightful theory of the fact that syntactic constituents receive default phrase stress not across the board, but as a function of yet-to-be-explicated conditions on their syntactic context. We will see that…
Making a Pronoun: Fake Indexicals as Windows into the Properties of Pronouns
This article argues that natural languages have two binding strategies that create two types of bound variable pronouns. Pronouns of the first type, which include local fake indexicals, reflexives, relative pronouns, and PRO, may be born with a “defective” feature set. They can acquire the features they are missing (if any) from verbal functional heads carrying standard λ-operators that bind them. Pronouns of the second type, which include long-d…
Expressives and Identity Conditions
April 01 2009 Expressives and Identity Conditions Christopher Potts, Christopher Potts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Ash Asudeh, Ash Asudeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Seth Cable, Seth Cable Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Yurie Hara, Yurie Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Eric McCready, Eric McCrea…
Modals and ConditionalsNew and Revised Perspectives
"This book contains updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzer's classic papers on modals and conditionals, including 'What 'must' and 'can' must and can mean, ' 'Partition and Revision, ' 'The Notional Category of Modality, ' 'Conditionals, ' 'An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought, ' and 'Facts: Particulars or Information Units?' The book's contents add up to some of the most important work on modals and conditionals in pa…
The Notional Category of Modality
Deconstructing information structure
The paper argues that a core part of what is traditionally referred to as 'information structure' can be deconstructed into genuine morphosyntactic features that are visible to syntactic operations, contribute to discourse-related expressive meanings, and just happen to be spelled out prosodically in Standard American and British English. We motivate two features, [FoC] and [G], and we track the fate of those features at and beyond the syntax-sem…
Farewell and Welcome
Computer Science (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Programming language (5 works) · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (4 works) · Modality (human–computer interaction) (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works)