Ruth M Kempson

Biographic Data

ID712308
NAMERuth M Kempson
GIVEN NAMESRuth M
FAMILY NAMEKempson
SIGNATUREKEMPSON R M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS81
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
H-INDEX2

  • Topic and focus at the peripheries: The dynamics of tree growth

    Open AccessRuth Kempson, Ruth M Kempson et al.ARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2004

    In this paper topic and focus effects at both left and right periphery are argued to be epiphenomena of general properties of tree growth. We incorporate Korean into this account as a prototypical verb-final language, and show how long- and short-distance scrambling form part of this general picture. Multiple long-distance scrambling effects emerge as a consequence of the feeding relationship between different forms of structural under-specificat…

  • The dynamics of syntax: Anaphora, relative pronouns and crossover

    Ruth Kempson, Ruth M Kempson et al.CHAPTERPronouns - Grammar and…2002

  • Mental Representations: The Interface between Language and Reality

    Ruth M KempsonBOOKMental Representations1990

  • Mental representations: The Interface Between Language and Reality

    Ruth M KempsonBOOKMental representations1988Cited by: 74

    The attempt to study language as part of cognitive science is apparently being thwarted by the lack of contact and inferential links between current theoretical paradigms. This dynamic collection provides an overview of the relationship between linguistic form and interpretation as exemplified by the most influential of these paradigms - the current Chomskian Government and Binding paradigm, the conflicting Situation Semantics paradigm, the David…

  • Logical form: The grammar cognition interface

    Open AccessRuth Kempson, Ruth M KempsonARTICLEJournal of Linguistics1988Cited by: 6References: 7

    Over the course of the last twenty-five years, linguistic theory has established itself as providing one of the major routes towards an understanding of the human mind. With increasing precision we have been able to address the problem of articulating in detail the structured capacities the human mind brings to the problem of language acquisition. Along the way there have been doubters, much of the doubt having arisen because of the apparently un…

  • Semantics, Volume 2 , John Lyons

    Ruth Kempson, Ruth M KempsonARTICLEStudies in Language1981

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  • Presupposition and the Delimitation of Semantics

    Richard Garner, R L Garner et al.ARTICLELanguage1977

  • Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics

    Ruth M KempsonBOOKPresupposition and the…1975

  • Controlled Activation of Latent Contrast

    Ruth Kempson, Ruth M Kempson et al.ARTICLELanguage1971Cited by: 1

    Certain linguistic items, capable of contrast in some environments, have the property of being apparently free variants in others. This can be accounted for, if in a given item, one or more semantic features can be regarded as ‘latent’, i.e. susceptible of being activated in some contexts and suppressed in others. The technique of ‘forced-choice’ selection testing was used to investigate the phenomenon, and the hypothesis was found to be valid in…