The Notional Category of Modality

By Angelika Kratzer. 2008

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy

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On the Machine Learning of Ethical Judgments from Natural Language (2022, background): “The interpretation of modal verbs is well-known to depend on the conversational backgrounds which is often not made explicit (Kratzer, 1981, 2012).”
On the meaning of some focus-sensitive particles (2007, neutral): “40 Lewis (1973), Kratzer (1981, 1991) , von Fintel (2001), among others.”
Evidentials as epistemic modals: Evidence from St'át'imcets (2008, background): “See Kratzer (1977, 1981, 1991) for the framework assumed.”
Gradable epistemic modals, probability, and scale structure (2010, background): “The standard theory of modality among linguists is due to Angelika Kratzer (Kratzer 1981, Kratzer 1991).”
On the event relativity of modal auxiliaries (2010, background): “Modals come in various flavors often classified into two classes: epistemics and roots.2 The French possibility and necessity modals pouvoir and devoir help to illustrate this, as they can take the full range of meanings available to modals.”
Covert Modality in Non-finite Contexts (2006, positive): “Kratzer (1981, 1991)). In the case of deontic modality, the modal base is a circumstantial one. A circumstantial modal base assigns to every possible world a set of propositions that are true in that world. Further, for a deontic modality, the ordering source is one which orders worlds according to ”
A modal ambiguity in for-infinitival relative clauses (2012, methodology): “This observation leads to a further prediction given our claim that non-quantificational DPs can be either of type <e,st> or type <e,t>, together with Kratzer's (1995) treatment of individuallevel-predicates.”
Performative Verbs and Performative Acts (2011, neutral): “Need for ranked preferences • In analyses of modality following Kratzer (1981), the ordering source is used to rank the worlds in the modal base, by ranking more highly worlds that make more4 propositions in the ordering source true.”
Modals as distributive indefinites (2008, background): “Modals also involve implicit conversational backgrounds, which vary depending on context ( Kratzer 1977, 1981, 1991 ).”