Ruth Kempson

Ruth Kempson
Born	26 June 1944
Education	SOAS (PhD)
Awards	FBA
Scientific career
Fields	linguistics
Institutions	SOAS
Thesis	Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics (1973)
Doctoral advisor	Charles Ernest Bazell
Other academic advisors	Randolph Quirk, Anita Mittwoch, Neil Smith, Deirdre Wilson
Doctoral students	John Saeed

Ruth Margaret Kempson, FBA (born 26 June 1944) is a British linguist. She is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at King's College, London.[1][2]

In 1977, Kempson published Semantic Theory, which discusses the concept of entailment in linguistics. A proposition (P) is entailed by another (Q) if P is true when Q is true and Q is false when P is false, but Q is not strictly defined if P is true.[3] She was awarded a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989.[4] She has made contributions to the theoretical framework of Dynamic syntax.[5]

References

1. "Professor Ruth Kempson FBA". King's College, London. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
2. "Kempson, Prof. Ruth Margaret, (Mrs M. J. Pinner)", Who's Who (A&C Black; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2016). Retrieved 30 November 2017 (subscription required).
3. Allen, Keith (2014). Linguistic Meaning (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics). Routledge. p. 285. ISBN 978-1-134-74244-8.
4. "FBA for two Kings Professors". King's College, London. 23 July 2010. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
5. Ronnie., Cann (2005). The dynamics of language : an introduction. Kempson, Ruth M., Marten, Lutz. Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 9780126135367. OCLC 75427895.