Modals and Conditionals : New and Revised Perspectives

This book contains updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzer's classic papers on modals and conditionals, including 'What "e;must"e; and "e;can"e; 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 thesemantics-syntax interface more generally. It will be of central interest to linguists and philosophers of language of all theoretical persuasions.