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 …

This article argues that natural languages have two binding strategies that create two types
of bound variable pronouns. Pronouns of the first type, which include local fake indexicals …

According to an influential theory (Kaplan 1989), indexicals are directly referential: they pick
out their referents directly from the context of utter ance, without the mediation of a Fregean …

This article investigates the temporal and aspectual composition of infinitival
complementation structures in English. I show that previous classifications of tense in …

Current minimalism takes syntactic operations Agree and Move to be triggered by
underlying feature checking requirements (Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001, Pesetsky & Torrego …

It is a cross-linguistically robust fact that the same modal auxiliaries come in different flavors:
epistemic, deontic, ability, teleological... This fact is neatly captured in a system where each …

This work investigates the processing of Italian subject pronouns, both the null and the overt
pronoun, in intra-sentential anaphora. A processing hypothesis is proposed, the Position of …

This thesis investigates three topics relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns.
Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983 …

Crosslinguistically, the same modal words can be used to express a wide range of
interpretations. This crosslinguistic trend supports a Kratzerian analysis, where each modal …

This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will
sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work on future …