Ruth M. Kempson | John Benjamins

Gregoromichelaki, Eleni, Ruth M. Kempson, Christine Howes and Arash Eshghi 2013 On making syntax dynamic: The challenge of compound utterances and the architecture of the grammar Alignment in Communication: Towards a new theory of communication, Wachsmuth, Ipke, Jan de Ruiter, Petra Jaecks and Stefan Kopp (eds.), pp. 57–86 | Article

The Pickering and Garrod model (Pickering & Garrod, 2013) represents a significant advance within the language-as-action paradigm in providing a mechanistic non-inferential account of dialogue. However, we suggest that, in maintaining several aspects of the language-as-product tradition, it does… read more

Marten, Lutz, Ruth M. Kempson and Miriam Bouzouita 2008 Concepts of structural underspecification in Bantu and Romance The Bantu–Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure, De Cat, Cécile and Katherine Demuth (eds.), pp. 3–39 | Article

The paper explores parallelisms between Bantu (specifically Otjiherero) and Romance (through Latin and Spanish) with respect to left and right peripheries, and subject and object clitics. The analysis is formulated in Dynamic Syntax (DS, Cann et al. 2005) and centrally involves notions of… read more

Kempson, Ruth M. and Ronnie Cann 2007 Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling: Preliminaries for a dialogue-driven account of syntactic change Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005, Salmons, Joseph C. and Shannon Dubenion-Smith (eds.), pp. 73–101 | Article

Bouzouita, Miriam and Ruth M. Kempson 2006 Clitic Placement in Old and Modern Spanish: A Dynamic Account Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond, Nedergaard Thomsen, Ole (ed.), pp. 253–268 | Article

Kempson, Ruth M. and Wilfried Meyer-Viol 2002 The dynamics of syntax: Anaphora, relative pronouns and crossover Pronouns – Grammar and Representation, Simon, Horst J. and Heike Wiese (eds.), pp. 137–160 | Article

Kempson, Ruth M. 1982 Review of Van der Auwera (1980): The Semantics of Determiners Studies in Language 6:2, pp. 300–302 | Review

Kempson, Ruth M. 1981 Semantics, Volume 2, John Lyons Studies in Language 5:1, pp. 123–139 | Article

Kempson, Ruth M. 1980 Review of Lyons (1977): Semantics I. Studies in Language 4:1, pp. 139–150 | Review