Hans Kamp

Johan Anthony Willem "Hans" Kamp (born 5 September 1940)[1] is a Dutch philosopher and linguist, responsible for introducing discourse representation theory (DRT) in 1981.[2][3]

Hans Kamp
Born	5 September 1940 (age 80) Den Burg, Texel, North Holland
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Main interests	Philosophy of Language, Semantics
Notable ideas	Discourse representation theory
Influences Richard Montague, Evert Willem Beth, Arthur Prior
Influenced Nicholas Asher, Gábor Alberti

Kamp was born in Den Burg.[1] He 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.[4] His dissertation, Tense Logic and the Theory of Linear Order (1968)[5] 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" (published in 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.[6] He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in 1996[7] and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2015.[8]

Publications

• 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.

See also

• Anaphora (linguistics)
• Donkey pronoun
• Donkey sentence
• Irene Heim
• Lambda calculus
• Montague grammar
• Quantification (linguistics)
• Two-dimensional semantics

References

1. D. J. van de Kaa; Kaa; Y. de Roo (19 December 2008). De Leden Van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen: Een Demografisch Perspectief: 1808 Tot 2008. Amsterdam University Press. p. 297. ISBN 978-90-6984-552-4.
2. Maier, Emar; Beaver, David I.; Geurts, Bart (2007-05-22). "Discourse Representation Theory". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
3. "UT College of Liberal Arts: Faculty Profile Prof. Hans Kamp". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
4. "Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans Kamp PhD | Institute for Natural Language Processing | University of Stuttgart". www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
5. Kamp, Johan Anthony Willem (1968). Tense logic and the theory of linear order. OCLC 26523229.
6. "J.A.W. Kamp". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
7. "Archives - INSTITUT JEAN NICOD". www.institutnicod.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
8. "Johan Anthony Willem Kamp". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2019-03-20.