Biography:Angelika Kratzer
Angelika Kratzer | |
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| Born | Mindelheim, Germany |
| Nationality | Germany , resident of the United States since 1985 |
| Education | University of Konstanz, MA (1973) University of Konstanz, PhD (1979) |
| Occupation | Linguist Professor |
Notable work | Semantics in Generative Grammar (with Irene Heim) "What 'must' and 'can' must and can mean" |
Angelika Kratzer is a professor emerita of linguistics in the department of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1]
Biography
She was born in Germany, and received her PhD from the University of Konstanz in 1979, with a dissertation entitled Semantik der Rede.[2] She is an influential and widely cited semanticist whose expertise includes modals, conditionals, situation semantics, and a range of topics relating to the syntax–semantics interface.[3]
Among her most influential ideas are: a unified analysis of modality of different flavors (building on the work of Jaakko Hintikka); a modal analysis of conditionals;[4] and the hypothesis ("the little v hypothesis") that the agent argument of a transitive verb is introduced syntactically whereas the theme argument is selected for lexically.[5]
She co-wrote with Irene Heim the semantics textbook Semantics in Generative Grammar,[6] and is co-editor, with Irene Heim, of the journal Natural Language Semantics.[7]
Key publications
- Heim, Irene & Angelika Kratzer. 1998. Semantics in Generative Grammar. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Kratzer, Angelika. 1977. What 'must' and 'can' must and can mean. Linguistics and Philosophy 1 (3): 337-355.
- Kratzer, Angelika. 1981. The notional category of modality. In: Words, worlds, and contexts: New approaches in word semantics, ed. by HJ Eikmeyer and H. Rieser. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 38-74.
- Kratzer, Angelika. 1995. Individual level predicates. In: The generic book, edited by Gregory N. Carlson and Francis J. Pelletier. Chicago University Press, 125-175.
- Kratzer, Angelika. 1996. Severing the external argument from its verb. In: Phrase structure and the lexicon. Edited by J. Rooryck and L. Zaring. Kluwer/Springer, 109-137.
- Kratzer, Angelika. 2012. Modals and Conditionals: New and Revised Perspectives. Oxford University Press. ISBN:9780199234691
See also
- Formal semantics (linguistics)
- Generative grammar
- Modality (natural language)
- Modal logic
References
- ↑ "Faculty | Linguistics | UMass Amherst" (in en). http://www.umass.edu/linguistics/faculty.
- ↑ Kratzer, Angelika. (1978). Semantik der Rede: Kontexttheorie, Modalwörter, Konditionalsätze. Monographien Linguistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft; 38. Königstein: Cornelsen Verlag. ISBN 978-3589206384.
- ↑ "Google Scholar". https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=angelika+kratzer&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=.
- ↑ Lassiter, Daniel (2017). Graded Modality: Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives. Oxford University Press. pp. 73–74. ISBN 9780198701354.
- ↑ Wechsler, Stephen (2015). Word Meaning and Syntax: Approaches to the Interface. Oxford University Press. pp. 252 ff. ISBN 9780199279890.
- ↑ Kratzer, Angelika (1997). Semantics in Generative Grammar. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-19713-3.
- ↑ "Natural Language Semantics - incl. option to publish open access" (in en). https://www.springer.com/education+&+language/linguistics/journal/11050.
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