Hans Kamp
Biographic Data
| ID | 754484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Kamp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamp |
| SIGNATURE | KAMP H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Can't Believe It Went By So Fast
This autobiographical sketch starts with my arrival as a PhD student at UCLA in 1965. It focuses on the most prominent line of my intellectual development, from work in Priorean tense logic for my dissertation and essays intended to fit within the framework of Montague Grammar to the discourse-oriented framework of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) and eventually to the unequivocally cognitive approach of Mental State Discourse Representation…
The links of causal chains
This paper is about the Causal Theory of Names, as outlined by Kripke in Naming and Necessity . The paper argues that causal chains which connect users in command of a name N with those present at the baptismal event in which N was introduced are branches of networks of ‘ N ‐labelled’ entity representations in the minds of past and present users of N. These networks of N ‐labelled entity representations are special cases of networks that result i…
Epistemic Specificity from a Communication-Theoretic Perspective
This paper offers a DRT-based analysis of epistemic specificity. Following Farkas (1996), we distinguish between scopal, partitive and epistemic specificity. After arguing in Section 1 that the three main variants of specificity are irreducible to each other, the paper then focuses on epistemic specificity. In the analysis of epistemically specific indefinites we distinguish between specific use and specific interpretation. Specific use is define…
Events, discourse representations and temporal reference
This is the original English version of a paper that appeared in French translation nearly thirty-five years ago. The motivation for publishing the original version so long after the translation is in part historical. At the time when the French translation was published, the paper was intended as part of a triad, the other two members of which were Kamp 1979 and Kamp 1981a. But as the intervening years have made plain, for part of its potential …
A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation
There is no opposition between Formal and Cognitive Semantics
1. Introduction The history of modern semantics is characterised by two research traditions which are based on radically different views concerning both conceptual motivation and the purpose of semantic research. Realistic semantics conceives of semantics as characterising the relationsship between linguistic expressions and reality. In most cases this relationship is explicated by means of modeltheoretic concepts. The following quote from one of…
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1. Bierwisch Manfred Bierwisch starts his comment with the complaint that crucial parts of our paper rely on van Lambalgen and Hamm (2005). This is of course true, and it points to a predicament of which we have been aware: In order that we could say, within the space allotted to us, that which we wanted to say in this paper almost all the technical details of van Lambalgen and Hamm (2005) had to be left out. We do not agree, however, with Bierwi…
DRS-Construction and Lexically Driven Inference
Remarks on Lexical Structure and DRS Construction
From Discourse to Logic: Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory
Evénements, représentations discursives et référence temporelle
Kamp Hans, Nef Frédéric. Evénements, représentations discursives et référence temporelle. In: Langages, 15e année, n°64, 1981. Le temps grammatical [logiques temporelles et analyse linguistique] pp. 39-64
Some remarks on the logic of change, Part I
To the memory of Arthur Prior Formal properties of ‘now’
Evénements, représentations discursives et référence temporelle
Kamp Hans, Nef Frédéric. Evénements, représentations discursives et référence temporelle. In: Langages, 15e année, n°64, 1981. Le temps grammatical [logiques temporelles et analyse linguistique] pp. 39-64
To the memory of Arthur Prior Formal properties of ‘now’
Some remarks on the logic of change, Part I
Evénements, représentations discursives et référence temporelle
Kamp Hans, Nef Frédéric. Evénements, représentations discursives et référence temporelle. In: Langages, 15e année, n°64, 1981. Le temps grammatical [logiques temporelles et analyse linguistique] pp. 39-64
From Discourse to Logic: Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory
DRS-Construction and Lexically Driven Inference
Remarks on Lexical Structure and DRS Construction
There is no opposition between Formal and Cognitive Semantics
1. Introduction The history of modern semantics is characterised by two research traditions which are based on radically different views concerning both conceptual motivation and the purpose of semantic research. Realistic semantics conceives of semantics as characterising the relationsship between linguistic expressions and reality. In most cases this relationship is explicated by means of modeltheoretic concepts. The following quote from one of…
Replies to comments
1. Bierwisch Manfred Bierwisch starts his comment with the complaint that crucial parts of our paper rely on van Lambalgen and Hamm (2005). This is of course true, and it points to a predicament of which we have been aware: In order that we could say, within the space allotted to us, that which we wanted to say in this paper almost all the technical details of van Lambalgen and Hamm (2005) had to be left out. We do not agree, however, with Bierwi…
A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation
Events, discourse representations and temporal reference
This is the original English version of a paper that appeared in French translation nearly thirty-five years ago. The motivation for publishing the original version so long after the translation is in part historical. At the time when the French translation was published, the paper was intended as part of a triad, the other two members of which were Kamp 1979 and Kamp 1981a. But as the intervening years have made plain, for part of its potential …
Epistemic Specificity from a Communication-Theoretic Perspective
This paper offers a DRT-based analysis of epistemic specificity. Following Farkas (1996), we distinguish between scopal, partitive and epistemic specificity. After arguing in Section 1 that the three main variants of specificity are irreducible to each other, the paper then focuses on epistemic specificity. In the analysis of epistemically specific indefinites we distinguish between specific use and specific interpretation. Specific use is define…
The links of causal chains
This paper is about the Causal Theory of Names, as outlined by Kripke in Naming and Necessity . The paper argues that causal chains which connect users in command of a name N with those present at the baptismal event in which N was introduced are branches of networks of ‘ N ‐labelled’ entity representations in the minds of past and present users of N. These networks of N ‐labelled entity representations are special cases of networks that result i…
Can't Believe It Went By So Fast
This autobiographical sketch starts with my arrival as a PhD student at UCLA in 1965. It focuses on the most prominent line of my intellectual development, from work in Priorean tense logic for my dissertation and essays intended to fit within the framework of Montague Grammar to the discourse-oriented framework of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) and eventually to the unequivocally cognitive approach of Mental State Discourse Representation…
Computer Science (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works)