Jeroen Antonius Gerardus Groenendijk (; 20 July 1949 – 17 October 2023) was a Dutch

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure o ...

ian,

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

, working on the

philosophy of language Philosophy of language refers to the philosophical study of the nature of language. It investigates the relationship between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of Meaning (philosophy), me ...

, formal semantics,

pragmatics In linguistics and the philosophy of language, pragmatics is the study of how Context (linguistics), context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions, as well as the relationship ...

. Groenendijk wrote a joint Ph.D. dissertation with Martin Stokhof on the formal semantics of questions, under the supervision of

Renate Bartsch Renate Irmtraut Bartsch (born 12 December 1939) is a German philosopher of language. She was a professor at the University of Amsterdam from 1974 to 2004. Career Bartsch was born on 12 December 1939 in Königsberg. She earned her doctorate at Heid ...

and Johan van Benthem. He was also an important figure in the development of

dynamic semantics Dynamic semantics is a framework in logic and natural language semantics that treats the meaning of a sentence as its potential to update a context. In static semantics, knowing the meaning of a sentence amounts to knowing when it is true; in dyna ...

(together with Stokhof, Veltman and others, following earlier work by

Irene Heim Irene Roswitha Heim (born October 30, 1954) is a linguist and a leading specialist in semantics. She was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and UCLA before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, where she is Pr ...

and

Hans Kamp Johan Anthony Willem "Hans" Kamp (born 5 September 1940) is a Dutch philosopher and Linguistics, linguist, responsible for introducing discourse representation theory (DRT) in 1981. Biography Kamp was born in Den Burg. He received a Ph.D. in UC ...

). His later work was mainly focused on studying and developing the recently founded framework of

inquisitive semantics Inquisitive semantics is a framework in logic and Formal semantics (linguistics), natural language semantics. In inquisitive semantics, the semantic content of a sentence captures both the information that the sentence conveys and the issue that it ...

. He was briefly the director of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...

and a member of the group collectively publishing under the

pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true meaning ( orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individual's o ...

L. T. F. Gamut.Preface to ''Logic, Language and Meaning'', by L. T. F. Gamut, University of Chicago Press, 1991.

References

External links

Groenendijk's university homepage

Inquisitive Semantics project homepage
1949 births Living people Dutch logicians Philosophers of language 20th-century Dutch philosophers Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam alumni Writers from Amsterdam {{Netherlands-philosopher-stub