Kai von Fintel
Professor of linguistics and associate dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
areas of expertise: linguistics, semantics, pragmatics
Kai von Fintel does research in natural language semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language and intersections thereof. His particular interests are in conditionals, modality and presupposition.
He received his PhD from UMass Amherst in 1994 after undergraduate work in Germany and Cambridge, England. He has taught at MIT since 1993.
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