Kai von Fintel is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research interests are in the intersections of semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. Recent publications include (with Sabine Iatridou) “Epistemic Containment,” in Linguistic Inquiry; “Counterfactuals in a Dynamic Context,” in Ken Hale: A Life in Language (MIT Press); and “NPI Licensing, Strawson Entailment, and Context Dependency,” in Journal of Semantics.

Pragmatics in Linguistic Theory | LSA.311
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