Hans Kamp
Hans Kamp | |
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Born | 5 September 1940 | (age 83)
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Main interests | Philosophy of Language, Semantics |
Notable ideas | Discourse Representation Theory |
Johan Anthony Willem "Hans" Kamp (born 1940) is a Dutch philosopher and linguist, responsible for introducing Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) in 1981.[1]
Kamp received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from UCLA in 1968, and has taught at Cornell University, University of London, University of Texas, Austin, and University of Stuttgart.[2] His dissertation, Tense Logic and the Theory of Linear Order (1968) was devoted to functional completeness in tense logic, the main result being that all temporal operators are definable in terms of "since" and "until" - provided that the underlying temporal structure is a continuous linear ordering. Kamp's 1971 paper on "now" (Theoria) was the first employment of double-indexing in model theoretic semantics. His doctoral committee included Richard Montague as chairman, Chen Chung Chang, Alonzo Church, David Kaplan, Yiannis N. Moschovakis, and Jordan Howard Sobel.
Kamp became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.[3] Kamp was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in 1996[4] and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2015.[5]
See also
- Anaphora (linguistics)
- Donkey pronoun
- Donkey sentence
- Irene Heim
- Lambda calculus
- Montague grammar
- Quantification (linguistics)
- Two-dimensional semantics
References
- ^ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/discourse-representation-theory/
- ^ http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiter/hans/
- ^ "J.A.W. Kamp". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
- ^ http://www.institutnicod.org/seminaires-colloques/conferences-et-prix-jean-nicod/archives/?lang=fr
- ^ http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/news/2015-05-13_hans_academy.html?__locale=en
- CV and mini-biography hosted by University of Stuttgart
- Faculty site at The University of Texas at Austin
- Kamp, Hans. 'A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation'. In J. Groenendijk and others (eds.). Formal Methods in the Study of Language. Amsterdam: Mathematics Center, 1981.
- Kamp, Hans and Uwe Reyle. `From Discourse to Logic: Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory'. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
- 1940 births
- Living people
- People from Texel
- Linguists from the Netherlands
- Dutch philosophers
- Semanticists
- Jean Nicod Prize laureates
- Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- University of Stuttgart faculty
- European linguist stubs
- Dutch academic biography stubs