Ruth Kempson | |
Birth Date: | 26 June 1944 |
Fields: | linguistics |
Workplaces: | SOAS |
Education: | SOAS (PhD) |
Thesis Title: | Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics |
Thesis Url: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29168/1/10731263.pdf |
Thesis Year: | 1973 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Charles Ernest Bazell |
Academic Advisors: | Randolph Quirk, Anita Mittwoch, Neil Smith, Deirdre Wilson |
Doctoral Students: | John Saeed |
Awards: | FBA |
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Ruth Margaret Kempson, FBA (born 26 June 1944) is a British linguist. She is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at King's College, London.[1] [2]
In 1977, Kempson published Semantic Theory, which discusses the concept of entailment in linguistics. A proposition (P) is entailed by another (Q) if P is true when Q is true and Q is false when P is false, but Q is not strictly defined if P is true.[3] She was awarded a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989.[4] She has made contributions to the theoretical framework of Dynamic syntax.[5]