Category Archives: Professional

All post having to do with my professional activities and my profession.

Hey, wait a minute!

Posted on October 15, 2009 by kvf

Someone doesn’t know the rules about legitimate exploitation of presupposition accommodation.

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Draft article on conditionals

Posted on September 30, 2009 by kvf

I have a draft of my article on conditionals for the new semantics handbook edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Claudia Maienborn, and Paul Portner. As you’ll see, I have kept the article at a fairly non-technical level while trying not … Continue reading →

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Four generations

Posted on September 29, 2009 by kvf

This past weekend, my colleague Sally Haslanger and the rest of MIT’s Women’s and Gender Studies program put on a 25 Year Anniversary conference. One of the panels presented a continuous four-generation teacher-student link of women scientists at MIT. An … Continue reading →

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CIA Leaks is in Top Ten in 2008

Posted on September 8, 2009 by kvf

Thony and I were very happy to learn that The Philosopher’s Annual has declared “CIA Leaks” to be one of the ten best philosophy articles in 2008.

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LSA class on modality

Posted on August 14, 2009 by kvf

Sabine Iatridou and I just finished teaching a three week class on modality at the LSA summer institute in Berkeley. Since the Berkeley class website isn’t easily accessible, here are our teaching materials: Syllabus Class 1 Handout: Intro and must … Continue reading →

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Early Seminar Announcement

Posted on August 12, 2009 by kvf

24.979 Topics in Syntax & Semantics von Fintel, Iatridou MW 1:30-3 66-160 “Without glue, what do we do?” The theme of our seminar is the question of how meanings are put together when there seems to be a lack of … Continue reading →

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Peeve

Posted on August 4, 2009 by kvf

A paper I reviewed (three rounds) just appeared. It contains no acknowledgments, no thanks to the reviewers. The editor of the journal did not write to the reviewers to announce their decision to publish the paper (which I had whole-heartedly … Continue reading →

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New version of “Must … Stay … Strong!”

Posted on July 17, 2009 by kvf

Thony Gillies and I have put the finishing touches on a new version of our paper on the alleged weakness of epistemic must: von Fintel, Kai & Anthony S. Gillies. 2009. Must … stay … strong! URL http://mit.edu/fintel/fintel-gillies-2009-mss.pdf. Ms, MIT and … Continue reading →

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SALT 18 (2008) Proceedings Online

Posted on July 15, 2009 by kvf

The proceedings for SALT 18 (2008, UMass Amherst) are now online. [The site is a bit sluggish at times, but it's great to have all these papers freely available.]

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Rich Meta-Data in S&P’s PDFs

Posted on July 14, 2009 by kvf

[Crossposted from the S&P Editors Blog] We just rolled out a major upgrade to the PDFs published in our journal Semantics and Pragmatics. We already had extensive hyper-linking in the articles and in the bibliographies. Now, our PDFs sport rich … Continue reading →

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