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Professor Ruth Kempson FBA

Linguistics

Elected 1989

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1989
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/associates/emeritus/kempson/index.aspx

Current post

Emeritus Professor, King's College London

Past appointments

King's College London University of London Professor of General Lingusitics

1970 -

King's College London University of London Leverhulme Research Professor, King's College London

1970 -

Soas, University Of London Lecturer, Reader then Professor of General Linguistics

1970 -

Soas, University Of London Lecturer, Reader then Professor of General Linguistics

1970 -

King's College London University of London Professor of General Lingusitics

1970 -

King's College London University of London Leverhulme Research Professor, King's College London

1970 -

Publications

Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics 1975

Semantic theory 1977

Mental representations: the interface between the language and reality 1988

Dynamic Syntax: The Flow of Natural Language Understanding 2001

The Dynamics of Language 2005

Semantics: An Introduction to Meaning in Language 2009

Related Fellows

Professor Janet Watson FBA

The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian

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Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams FBA

Philology Central and Inner Asia

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Professor Deirdre Wilson FBA

Linguistics

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