Occupation Linguist
Professor | Name Angelika Kratzer | |
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Nationality German, resident of the United States since 1985 Notable work Semantics in Generative Grammar (with Irene Heim)
"What 'must' and 'can' must and can mean" Books Modals and Conditionals: New and Revised Perspectives Education University of Konstanz, PhD | ||
Angelika Kratzer - Privileging knowledge?
Angelika Kratzer is a preeminent semanticist whose expertise includes modals, conditionals, situation semantics, and a range of topics relating to the syntax–semantics interface. She was born in Germany, and received her PhD from the University of Konstanz in 1979. Kratzer is a professor of linguistics in the department of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 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; 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.
She co-wrote with Irene Heim the semantics textbook Semantics in Generative Grammar, and is co-editor of the journal Natural Language Semantics. She has written five books and at least 32 articles, and as of July 2015 has amassed 15,657 citations on Google Scholar.