Ruth Margaret Kempson, FBA (born 26 June 1944) is a British linguist. She is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at King's College, London.
Ruth Kempson | |
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| Born | 26 June 1944 |
| Education | SOAS (PhD) |
| Awards | FBA |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | linguistics |
| Institutions | SOAS |
| Thesis | Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Ernest Bazell |
| Other academic advisors | Randolph Quirk, Anita Mittwoch, Neil Smith, Deirdre Wilson |
| Doctoral students | John Saeed |
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. She was awarded a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989. She has made contributions to the theoretical framework of Dynamic syntax.
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