b. 1950
Angelika Kratzer is a German-American linguist and philosopher of language known for her foundational contributions to formal semantics. Her work on modality, conditionals, and situation semantics has shaped contemporary analysis of meaning in natural language.
Developed the influential contextualist analysis of modality (modal base and ordering source)
Pioneered situation semantics as a framework for natural language meaning
Authored 'Modals and Conditionals' (2012), a landmark collection on modal semantics
Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Advanced the semantic treatment of conditionals as restrictors of modal operators