1 ANGELIKA KRATZER Department of Linguistics University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-6829
[email protected] http://people.umass.edu/kratzer/
Academic degrees
1973 University of Konstanz, MA in Theoretical Linguistics and Romance Philology (ausgezeichnet, ‘with distinction’).
1979 University of Konstanz, Dr. phil. (summa cum laude).
Education
Undergraduate Work
1967-1969 University of Munich: Romance Philology, Art History, Communication Studies, Modern German Literature.
Graduate Work
1970-1972 University of Konstanz: MA-level studies in Theoretical Linguistics and Romance Philology. 1972-1973 University of Heidelberg: Mathematical Logic. 1974 Victoria University of Wellington/New Zealand: Formal Semantics for Natural Language, Logic, Philosophy of Language.
Professional Employment
1992-present Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 1985-1992 Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 1980-1985 Assistant Professor (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Institute of Linguistics, Technical University Berlin. 1978-1980 Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. Project on Language Production. 2 1975-1978 Researcher, University of Konstanz. Project on Formal Syntax and Semantics. 1969-1970 Assistante de langue allemande, Lycée Jean Dautet, La Rochelle.
Teaching & research at other institutions
• NASSLLI (North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information), University of Maryland (2014). • Linguistic Society of America Summer Institutes: UC Santa Cruz (1991), Cornell University (1997), Harvard-MIT (2005), University of Michigan (2013). • Dutch Central Graduate Program (LOT): Amsterdam (1991), Utrecht (1994), Tilburg (2012). • Central European University Budapest (2009): Summer School on Conditionals. • École Normale Supérieure, Paris: Invited Professor (2009). • Institut Jean Nicod, Paris: Invited Researcher (2009). • École Normale Supérieure Paris (2005): Fall School in Linguistics. • Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil): Visiting Professor (2000, 2003).
Earlier University of Barcelona International Summer School at Girona (1996). Graduate Program for Students from Central and Eastern Europe, Charles University Prague (1995). Graduate Program of the University of Stuttgart (1992).
Honors & Fellowships
• David Lewis Lecture, Princeton Philosophy Department (2017). • Convener of 2015/2016 SIAS Summer Institute: The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning: In the Armchair, in the Field, and in the Lab. With Manfred Krifka. • Henry Sweet Lecture of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain (2014). • Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (class of 2013). • Inducted as Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (2012). • Invited Research Fellow at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris (2009). • Invited Professor at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2009). • Context and Content Lectures at the École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales (EHESS), Paris (2009). • University of Massachusetts College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Teaching Award (2005). • University of Massachusetts Chancellor’s Outstanding Community Service Award for volunteer work as Court Appointed Special Advocate for the Franklin County Juvenile Court (1999). • University of Massachusetts Conti Fellowship for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research (1999). 3 • Fellowship from the Hebrew University Center for Advanced Studies (1996). • Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (multiple fellowship offers declined).
Earlier Max Planck Society Research Fellowship (Nijmegen 1990). Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Fellowship, 1971-1974). DAAD fellowship (German Academic Exchange Service, 1974).
NSF Grants
• BNS 1226449. Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Grammar of Counting and Measuring. A View from Tupi Languages. 2012 – 2014. Principal Investigator, for Suzi Oliveira de Lima. • BNS 0843905. Doctoral Dissertation Research: Semantics of Nez Perce Verbal Inflection. 2009 – 2011. Principal Investigator, for Amy Rose Deal. • BNS 8719999. Quantification: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation. 1988 – 1992. Co- Principal Investigator, with Emmon Bach and Barbara Partee.
Ph.D. committees, chaired or co-chaired
• Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Associate Professor, McGill University. • Jan Anderssen, Computational Linguist, Idealo Berlin. • Ana Arregui, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa. • Stephen Berman, Lecturer, Universität Bochum. • Shai Cohen, Instructor in Hebrew, Emory University • Noah Constant, Linguistics Researcher, Google Headquarters, Mountain View. • Molly Diesing, Professor, Cornell University (co-chaired with David Pesetsky). • Amy Rose Deal, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley (co-chaired with Rajesh Bhatt). • Kai von Fintel, Andrew Mellon Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. • Ilaria Frana, Assistant Professor, Kore University of Enna. • Kiyomi Kusumoto, Associate Professor, Hirosaki Gakuin University. • Suzi Oliveira de Lima, Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (co-chaired with Lyn Frazier). • Jo-Wang Lin, Professor, Academia Sinica, Taipeng. • Andrew McKenzie, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas (co-chaired with Seth Cable). • Paula Menéndez-Benito, Marie Curie Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. • Keir Moulton, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University (co-chaired with Kyle Johnson). • Marcin Morzycki, Associate Professor, Michigan State University. 4 • Maribel Romero, Professor, University of Konstanz. • Aynat Rubinstein, Assistant Professor, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. • Bernhard Schwarz, Associate Professor, McGill University (co-chaired with Kyle Johnson). • Florian Schwarz, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania. • Roger Schwarzschild, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. • Junko Shimoyama, Associate Professor, McGill University (co-chaired with Kyle Johnson). • Satoshi Tomioka, Associate Professor, University of Delaware. • Elisabeth Villalta (completed with Sigrid Beck at the University of Tübingen).
Ph.D. committees, not chaired or co-chaired
Philosophy Thomas Bell, Einar Bohn, Ben Bradley, David Cowles, Sam Cowling, David Denby, Neil Feit, Brandt van der Gaast, Carol Gabriel, Christopher Heathwood, Barak Krakauer, Pengbo Liu, Ned Markosian, Kris McDaniel, Bridgette Peterson, Julie Petty, Neil Schaefer, Ted Sider, Stephan Torre.
Linguistics Elena Benedicto, Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten, Virginia Brennan, Christopher Davis, Bart Hollebrandse, Nirit Kadmon, Ji-Yung Kim, Min-Joo Kim, Meredith Landman, Bill Philip, Paul Portner, Janina Rado, Craige Roberts, Bernhard Rohrbacher, Hotze Rullmann, Jeff Runner, Michael Terry, Susanne Tunstall, Michael Walsh-Dickey, Gert Webelhuth, Karina Wilkinson, Sandro Zucchi.
Outside Leora Bar-El (University of British Columbia), Christine Brisson (Rutgers), Yael Greenberg (Bar-Ilan), Olga Khomitsevich (Utrecht), Jessica Rett (Rutgers), Mira Grubic (Potsdam).
Named lectures and selected invited conference lectures
• David Lewis Lecture (2017, Princeton University, Department of Philosophy). • The Language of Uncertainty (2015, Rome Science Festival). • Henry Sweet Lecture of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain. Plenary Lecture (2014, Oxford). • Modality (2014, Yale). • Focus Sensitive Expressions (2014, Bar Ilan). • Logic, Grammar, and Meaning (2014, University of East Anglia) • Tense in Semantics and Philosophy of Language (2014, Arché, St. Andrews). • Pronouns in Embedded Contexts (2014, Tübingen) 5 • International Congress of Linguists. Plenary Lecture (2013, Geneva). • International Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy. Plenary Lecture (2013, Toronto). • Deontic Modality. Keynote Lecture (2013, University of Southern California). • Amsterdam Colloquium. Plenary Lectures (1987, 1995, 2001, 2007, 2013, University of Amsterdam). • Conditionals (2013, Konstanz). • Little v (2013, Leiden). • Jowett Lecture (2012, Oxford). • American Philosophical Association Central Division. Conditionals (2012, Chicago). • Comparative Germanic Syntax (2012, Yale). • American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (2011, Washington DC). • The Logic and Cognitive Science Initiative Conference on Meaning and Context (2011, North Carolina State University). • Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network (2011, University of Syracuse). • Mayfest (2011, University of Maryland). • Semantics & Linguistic Theory. Plenary Lectures (1992, Ohio State University. 1998, MIT. 2003, University of Washington. 2006, University of Tokyo. 2011, Rutgers University). • The Chicago Linguistic Society. Plenary Lectures (1986, 2011, University of Chicago). • Annual Logic Lecture (2010, University of Connecticut). • Georgetown Linguistics Society. Plenary Lecture (2010, Georgetown University). • Epistemic Modals (2010, University of Nebraska) • Context and Content Lectures (2009, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Eight lectures). • Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Plenary Lecture (2009, San Francisco). • German Linguistic Society. Plenary Lecture (2009, Universität Osnabrück). • Sinn und Bedeutung. Plenary Lectures (1997, 2005, Humboldt University, Berlin). • Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique de Paris (CSSP). Plenary Lecture (2005, Université de Paris VII). • SCLL Distinguished Visitor Series in Linguistics & Philosophy (2005, UC Santa Cruz). • Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Plenary Lecture (2002, University of Tokyo, in absentia). • Berkeley Linguistics Society. Plenary Lecture (2000, UC Berkeley). • Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Plenary Lecture (University of Pennsylvania, 1999). • West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Plenary Lecture (1998, University of British Columbia). • Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America. Plenary Lecture (1994, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign).
6 Publications
Journal Editorship With Irene Heim: Co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Natural Language Semantics, an International Journal of Semantics and its Interfaces in Grammar. 22 volumes (about 400 pages each), ongoing.
Books • Mapping Possibilities. Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2016. • Modals and Conditionals. Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2012 (200 pages). • (with I. Heim) Semantics in Generative Grammar. Oxford (Basil Blackwell) 1998 (325 pages). • Semantik der Rede. Kontexttheorie, Modalwörter, Konditionalsätze (Semantics of Discourse. Context Theory, Modals, Conditionals). Königstein (Scriptor) 1978 (309 pages). • (with A. v. Stechow and E. Pause): Einführung in Theorie und Anwendung der generativen Syntax (Introduction to the Theory and Application of Generative Syntax). Vol. 1: Frankfurt (Athenäum) 1973 (286 pages). Vol. 2: Frankfurt (Athenäum) 1974 (307 pages).
Edited Books • (with E. Bach, E. Jelinek and B. Partee) Quantification in Natural Language. 2 volumes. Dordrecht (Kluwer Academic Publishers) 1995 (756 pages).
Articles 1. With Kai von Fintel. Modal Comparisons: Two Dilettantes in Search of an Expert. Luka Crnič and Uli Sauerland (eds.): The Art and Craft of Semantics. A Festschrift for Irene Heim. Cambridge (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics), 2015.
2. Chasing Hook. Quantified Indicative Conditionals. Lee Walters & John Hawthorne (eds.): Conditionals, Probability, and Paradox: Themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington. Oxford (Oxford University Press). In press.
3. Modality for the 21st Century. Stephen R. Anderson, Jacques Moeschler, & Fabienne Raboul (eds.): The Language-Cognition Interface. Geneva (Librairie Droz) 2013, 179- 199.
4. Making a Pronoun. Fake Indexicals as Windows into the Properties of Pronouns. Linguistic Inquiry 40(2). 2009, 187-237.
5. On the Plurality of Verbs. Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow & Johannes Dölling (eds.): Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation. Berlin (Mouton Walter de Gruyter) 2007, 269-299.
7 6. With Elisabeth Selkirk. Phase Theory and Prosodic Spell-Out: The Case of Verbs. The Linguistic Review 24. 2007, 93-135.
7. Situations in Natural Language Semantics. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford (CSLI) 2007, 14,500 words.
8. Building Resultatives. C. Maienborn & A. Wöllstein-Leisten (eds.): Events in Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse. Tübingen (Niemeyer) 2005, 177-212.
9. Indefinites and the Operators they Depend on: From Japanese to Salish. Gregory N. Carlson & Francis J. Pelletier (eds.): Reference and Quantification: The Partee Effect. Stanford (CSLI Publications) 2005, 113-142.
10. Constraining Premise Sets for Counterfactuals. Journal of Semantics 22. 2005, 153- 158.
11. Interpreting focus: Presupposed or expressive meanings? Theoretical Linguistics 30(1). Special issue on Interpreting Focus. 2004, 123-136.
12. Telicity and the Meaning of Objective Case. Jaqueline Guéron & Jaqueline Lecarme (eds.): The Syntax of Time. Cambridge/Mass. (The MIT Press) 2004, 389-423.
13. Facts: Particulars or Information Units? Linguistics & Philosophy 25. 2002, 655-670.
14. With Junko Shimoyama. Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese. Yukio Otsu (ed.): Proceedings of the 3rd Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo (Hituzi Syobo) 2002, 1-25.
15. Building Statives. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Lisa J. Conathan et al. (eds.). Berkeley (Berkeley Linguistics Society) 2000, 385-399.
16. More Structural Analogies Between Pronouns and Tenses. Proceedings of SALT VIII. Devon Strolovitch & Aaron Lawson (eds.). Ithaca (Cornell University) 1998, 92-110.
17. Scope or Pseudoscope? Are there Wide-scope Indefinites? Susan Rothstein (ed.): Events in Grammar. Dordrecht (Kluwer) 1998, 163-196.
18. Severing the External Argument from its Verb. Johan Rooryck & Laurie Zaring (eds.): Phrase Structure and the Lexicon. Dordrecht (Kluwer) 1996, 109-137.
19. Stage-Level and Individual-Level Predicates. Gregory N. Carlson & Francis J. Pelletier (eds.): The Generic Book. Chicago (Chicago University Press) 1995, 125-175.
20. The Representation of Focus. Arnim v. Stechow & Dieter Wunderlich (eds.): Handbuch Semantik/Handbook Semantics. Berlin & New York (de Gruyter) 1991, 8 825-834.
21. Conditionals. Arnim v. Stechow & Dieter Wunderlich (eds.): Handbuch Semantik/Handbook Semantics. Berlin & New York (de Gruyter) 1991, 651-656.
22. Modality. Arnim v. Stechow & Dieter Wunderlich (eds.): Handbuch Semantik/Handbook Semantics. Berlin & New York (de Gruyter) 1991, 639-650.
23. How Specific is a Fact? Proceedings of the 1990 Conference on Theories of Partial Information. Center for Cognitive Science and College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.
24. An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought. Linguistics and Philosophy 12. 1989, 607-653.
25. Stage-Level and Individual-Level Predicates. Manfred Krifka (ed.): Genericity in Natural Language. Proceedings of the 1988 Tübingen Conference, SNS-Bericht 88-42, 247-284.
26. Conditionals. Papers from the Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Theory. Anne M. Farley, Peter Farley & Karl Eric McCollough (eds.). Chicago (Chicago Linguistics Society) 1986, 115 - 135.
27. Preface to Linguistik als kognitive Wissenschaft, special issue of Linguistiche Berichte. 80. 1982, 12 - 15.
28. The Notional Category of Modality. Hans Jürgen Eikmeyer & Hannes Rieser (eds.): Words, Worlds, and Contexts. Berlin & New York (de Gruyter) 1981, 38-74. Reprinted in Paul Portner & Barbara Partee (eds.): Formal Semantics. The Essential Readings. Oxford (Blackwell) 2002. Also reprinted in Javier Gutierrez-Rexach (ed.): Semantics: Critical Concepts. London (Routledge).
29. Partition and Revision. The Semantics of Counterfactuals. Journal of Philosophical Logic 10. 1981, 201-216.
30. Blurred Conditionals. Wolfgang Klein & Willem Levelt (eds.): Crossing the Boundaries in Linguistics. Dordrecht (Reidel) 1981, 201-209.
31. Possible Worlds Semantics and Psychological Reality. Linguistische Berichte 66. 1980, 113-134.
32. Conditional Necessity and Possibility. Rainer Bäuerle, Urs Egli & Arnim v. Stechow (eds.): Semantics from different points of view. Berlin, Heidelberg, & New York (Springer) 1979, 117-147.
9 33. What “must” and “can” must and can mean. Linguistics and Philosophy 1. 1977, 337- 355.