Angelika Kratzer | |
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Born |
Mindelheim, Germany |
Nationality | German, resident of the United States since 1985 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Konstanz |
Thesis | Semantik der Rede: Kontexttheorie, Modalwörter, Konditionalsätze (1979) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Semantics |
Website | https://people.umass.edu/kratzer/ |
Angelika Kratzer is a professor emerita of linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [1]
She was born in Germany, and received her PhD from the University of Konstanz in 1979, with a dissertation entitled Semantik der Rede. 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. [2]
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; [3] 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. [4]
She co-wrote with Irene Heim the semantics textbook Semantics in Generative Grammar, and is co-editor, with Irene Heim, of the journal Natural Language Semantics. [5]
In 2012, Kratzer was named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. [6]
Angelika Kratzer | |
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Born |
Mindelheim, Germany |
Nationality | German, resident of the United States since 1985 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Konstanz |
Thesis | Semantik der Rede: Kontexttheorie, Modalwörter, Konditionalsätze (1979) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Semantics |
Website | https://people.umass.edu/kratzer/ |
Angelika Kratzer is a professor emerita of linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [1]
She was born in Germany, and received her PhD from the University of Konstanz in 1979, with a dissertation entitled Semantik der Rede. 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. [2]
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; [3] 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. [4]
She co-wrote with Irene Heim the semantics textbook Semantics in Generative Grammar, and is co-editor, with Irene Heim, of the journal Natural Language Semantics. [5]
In 2012, Kratzer was named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. [6]