Magdalena Kaufmann: Kyoto Lectures

Semantics of possibility and necessity

Internal platform

The aim of this weekly meeting is to contribute to the formal semantic investigation of modality. For information on administrative aspects and download of materials, please check KULASIS

Please don't hesitate to get in touch with me in case you don't have access to the platform.

Topics and pointers

• General introduction modality and mood: Kaufmann & Kaufmann (t.a.), Portner (2009)
• Intensionality in possible worlds semantics: von Fintel & Heim, Ms. Intensional semantics
• Introduction to Modal Logic: Gamut, Vol. 2, ch. 1-2
• Graded modality: Kratzer (1991,2002:ch.2)
• Modality in Japanese: Narrog (2008), Larm (2009,2014)
• Strong/weak necessity modals
• Sufficiency modals
• Epistemic modality
• Conditionals as modal constructions
• Scalar modal semantics: Lassiter (2011), Klecha (2014)

(more will be added continuously)