Bart Geurts is a Dutch philosopher of language and formal semanticist at Radboud University Nijmegen, specializing in the semantics and pragmatics of natural language. He is known for foundational work on presupposition, scalar implicatures, and Discourse Representation Theory (DRT). His research bridges formal semantic theory with cognitive and communicative dimensions of meaning.
Developed influential accounts of presupposition accommodation within Discourse Representation Theory
Authored Presuppositions and Pronouns (1999), a major contribution to dynamic semantics
Authored Quantity (2010), providing a pragmatic theory of scalar implicatures
Advanced the formal analysis of accessibility relations within DRS-based semantic frameworks
Integrated formal semantics with cognitive pragmatics in the study of natural language inference