Modals and Conditionals New and Revised Perspectives [Hardcover]

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: Particulars or Information Units? The book's contents add up to some of the most important work on modals and conditionals in particular and on the semantics-syntax interface more generally. It will be of central interest to linguists and philosophers of language of all theoretical persuasions.

1. What Must and Can Must and Can Mean
2. The Notional Category of Modality
3. Partition and Revision: The Semantics of Counterfactuals
4. Conditionals
5. An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought
6. Facts: Particulars or Information Units?
References
Index

An indispensible resource. --Fran??ois Recanati, Institut Jean Nicod

This book is a treasure of the puzzles, illustrations, and parables that have shaped the modern view of the language of modals and conditionals. It defines the standard against which all theorizing on the subject is to be measured. A classic. --Barry Schein, University of Southern California

This work collects and dramatically expands upon Angelika Kratzer's now classic papers. There is scarcely an area of philosophy that remains or will remain untouched by their influence. --Jason Stanley, Rutgers University

The book is certainly worth reading, for it is a product of rare scientific beauty, reflecting years of serious intellectual enterprise undertaken by its renowned author, whose already classical works have been studied and cited by generations of linguists...I recommend the book to all linguists interested in matters of modality, conditionality and counterfactuality. These are highly complex matters but even so the author writes about them in such a clear, logical and honelC3