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Jeroen Groenendijk

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Jeroen Groenendijk
Born(1949-07-20)20 July 1949
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died17 October 2023(2023-10-17) (aged 74)
Amsterdam, Netherlands[1]
NationalityDutch
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
Scientific career
FieldsLogician
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: [jəˈruŋ ˈɣrunə(n)dɛik]; 20 July 1949 – 17 October 2023) was a Dutch logician, linguist and philosopher, working on the philosophy of language, 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

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  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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