Kai von Fintel

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Kai von Fintel is Associate Professor of Linguistics at MIT. Von Fintel has written numerous papers in philosophy and linguistics, including:

2006. "What is Presupposition Accommodation, Again?" Draft paper for Workshop on Presupposition Accommodation at The Ohio State University. 2006. "Modality and Language". In Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Second Edition, edited by Donald M. Borchert. MacMillan. 2006. with Sabine Iatridou. "How to Say Ought in Foreign: The Composition of Weak Necessity Modals”. Ms, MIT, paper to be given at the Fall 2006 Workshop in Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Michigan. 2006. with Anthony S. Gillies. "Epistemic Modality for Dummies". Draft, to appear in Oxford Studies in Epistemology, Volume 2, edited by Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne. 2006. with Anthony S. Gillies. "CIA Leaks". ms, MIT and University of Michigan. 2006. with Sabine Iatridou. "Anatomy of a Modal Construction". ms, MIT, to appear in Linguistic Inquiry. Older, more exploratory and lengthier version appeared as "Anatomy of a Modal" in 2005. 2005. with Sabine Iatridou. "What to Do If You Want to Go to Harlem: Anankastic Conditionals and Related Matters". ms, MIT. 2005. "Tense in Conditionals". ms, MIT. 2005. with Sabine Iatridou. "Since Since". ms, MIT. 2005. "Postscript to "Whatever" (Comments on Condoravdi)". Handout from a Talk at LSA Workshop on "Context and Content: Topics in Formal Pragmatics", July 15, 2005, Cambridge, MA. 2005. with Anthony S. Gillies. "Might Made Right". ms in progress, MIT and University of Michigan. 2005. "Comments on Kaufmann". Contribution to the 4th Michigan Workshop on Philosophy and Linguistics, comments on Stefan Kaufmann’s paper "Local and Global Interpretations of Conditionals", October 29, 2005. 2005. with Sabine Iatridou. "Anatomy of a Modal”. In Jon Gajewski, Valentine Hacquard, Bernard Nickel, Seth Yalcin, eds. New Work on Modality. No. 52 in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT. 2005/1997. "How to Count Situations (Notes Towards a User’s Manual)". ms, MIT. 2004. "Would You Believe It? The King of France is Back! Presuppositions and Truth-Value Intuitions". In Descriptions and Beyond, edited by Marga Reimer & Anne Bezuidenhout. Oxford University Press. 2004. "How Multi-Dimensional is Quotation?". ms, MIT. Comments on Chris Potts’ The Dimensions of Quotation, Harvard-MIT-UConn Workshop on Indexicals, Speech Acts, and Logophors, November 20, 2004. 2003. with Sabine Iatridou. "Epistemic Containment". Linguistic Inquiry, 34(2): 173–198. doi:10.1162/002438903321663370. 2002. with Sabine Iatridou. "If and When If-Clauses Can Restrict Quantifiers". ms, MIT. 2001. "Counterfactuals in a Dynamic Context". In Ken Hale: A Life in Language, edited by Michael Kenstowicz. MIT Press. 2001. "Conditional Strengthening: A Case Study in Implicature". ms, MIT. 2000. "Whatever". Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 10: 27–40. 2000. "What is Presupposition Accommodation?". ms, MIT. 2000. "Singleton Indefinites (re. Schwarzschild 2000)". ms, MIT. 2000. "Exceptive Constructions". Seminar Notes, MIT. 1999. "The Presupposition of Subjunctive Conditionals". In The Interpretive Tract, edited by Uli Sauerland Orin Percus, no. 25 in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, pp. 29–44. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL. 1999. "Quantifier Domains and Pseudo-Scope". ms, MIT. Handout of a Talk Given at at Cornell Context-Dependence Conference, March 28, 1999. 1999. "NPI Licensing, Strawson Entailment, and Context Dependency". Journal of Semantics, 16(2): 97–148. doi:10.1093/jos/16.2.97. 1999. "Class Notes on Adjectives". ms, MIT. 1999. "Amount Relatives and The Meaning of Chains". ms, MIT. Handout of a talk given at the University of Edinburgh. 1998. "Quantifiers and 'If'-Clauses". The Philosophical Quarterly, 48(191): 209–214. 1998. "Indicative Conditionals". Handout from a talk given at Conference on Bridges and Interfaces: Function, Meaning, and Structure at the Charles University Prague (in celebration of its 650th Anniversary), March 1998.