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 | people |
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]
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