Jeroen Groenendijk

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Jeroen Groenendijk
Born(1949-07-20)20 July 1949
Logician
InstitutionsUniversity of Amsterdam
Doctoral advisorRenate Bartsch, Johan van Benthem
4th Director of the ILLC, Amsterdam
In office
2009–2009
Preceded byFrank Veltman
Succeeded byLeen Torenvliet

Jeroen Antonius Gerardus Groenendijk (Dutch pronunciation:

formal semantics, pragmatics
.

Groenendijk wrote a joint

Ph.D. dissertation with Martin Stokhof on the formal semantics of questions, under the supervision of Renate Bartsch and Johan van Benthem. He was also an important figure in the development of dynamic semantics (together with Stokhof, Veltman and others, following earlier work by Irene Heim and Hans Kamp). His later work was mainly focused on studying and developing the recently founded framework of inquisitive semantics
.

He was briefly the director of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the group collectively publishing under the pseudonym L. T. F. Gamut.[2]

References

  1. ^ Prof. dr. J.A.G. Groenendijk, 1949– at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum website
  2. ^ Preface to Logic, Language and Meaning, by L. T. F. Gamut, University of Chicago Press, 1991.

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