Kratzer modals and conditionals pdf

Angelika kratzer, papers on modals and conditionals, paper collection, 2010 pdf. Furthermore, conditionals are usually not considered in connec tion with modality. Conditionals cian dorr and john hawthorne topics and readings week 1. Anankastic conditionals are just conditionals semantics and. The lewiskratzer semantics has difficulties accounting for these conditionals, as first observed by kjell johan. Kratzer 2012 conjectures that modals without duals may not. The book contains new editions of a selection of authors works on. Then, the restrictor analysis of lewiskratzerheim is intro duced as a. Yet, ifclauses very often serve to restrict modals in an explicit or implicit way. Aftercataloguingvariousimpropersensesofonly,ockham remarksthat thesearethesenses,then,inwhichtheexclusive expressioncanbetakenimproperly. Endorsements for angelika kratzers modals and conditionals.

This course introduces standard semantic theories of modals and conditionals. The book contains new editions of a selection of authors works on modals and conditionals. Request pdf modals and conditionals again of an expression. In kratzers doubly relative semantics for modals and conditionals, the interpretation of modals is dependent on two conversational backgrounds. In the first part of the course, we will cover basic concepts of modal logic and possible worlds semantics and briefly survey the classics of the relevant literature. Conditional meanings and ways of expressing them 2. This work collects and dramatically expands upon angelika kratzer s now classic papers. In accounting for the meaning of both modals and conditionals it is useful to use relations.

Worlds,modals,conditionalsintensionalsemantics 1 limitationsoftheactualworld consider the fact that lewis carroll was the pen name of c. Angelika kratzers classic work on modality and conditionals is one of the major achievements of. Modals and conditionals lie at the center of philosophical inquiry. This book contains updated and substantially revised versions of angelika kratzer s classic papers on modals and conditionals, including what must and can must and can mean, partition and revision, the notional category of modality, conditionals, an investigation of the lumps of thought, and facts. The lewiskratzer account provides a theory of this. Then, the restrictor analysis of lewis kratzer heim is introduced as a theory of how conditional meanings come about compositionally.

In work beginning in the 1970s, kratzer proposes a vantage point from which it can be seen that modals and conditionals share a common logical structure, that of quantification generally. Modals, conditionals, and probabilistic generative models topic 1. Modals and conditionals paperback angelika kratzer. Following the findings in the research of notional category of modals in kratzer 2010, the. Modals, conditionals, and probabilistic generative models. Lewis, kratzer, and cem matthew mandelkern all souls college, 25 january, 2018 1turning to lewis lewis is concerned only with subjunctive conditionals. New approaches in word semantics research in text theory 6, 3874. Angelika kratzer modals and conditionals new and revised. The semantics of conditional modality semantic scholar.