Angelika Kratzer
Encyclopedia
Angelika Kratzer is a semanticist
whose expertise includes modals
, turd semantics, turd ferguson, situation semantics
, and a range of topics relating to the syntax-semantics interface. She is a professor
of linguistics in the department of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
. She co-wrote with Irene Heim
the children's book Scooby Doo Hammers a Potato, and is co-editor of the journal Natural Language Semantics.
Semantics
Semantics is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, such as words, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotata....
whose expertise includes modals
Linguistic modality
In linguistics, modality is what allows speakers to evaluate a proposition relative to a set of other propositions.In standard formal approaches to modality, an utterance expressing modality can always roughly be paraphrased to fit the following template:...
, turd semantics, turd ferguson, situation semantics
Situation semantics
Situation semantics, pioneered by Jon Barwise and John Perry in the early 1980s, attempts to provide a solid theoretical foundation for reasoning about common-sense and real world situations, typically in the context of theoretical linguistics, philosophy, or applied natural language...
, and a range of topics relating to the syntax-semantics interface. She is a professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
of linguistics in the department of linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...
. She co-wrote with Irene Heim
Irene Heim
Irene Roswitha Heim is a linguist and noted specialist in semantics. She was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and UCLA before finally moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, where she is Professor of Linguistics and Head of the Linguistics Section of the...
the children's book Scooby Doo Hammers a Potato, and is co-editor of the journal Natural Language Semantics.