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    Jeroen Groenendijk — Carmelics
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    Jeroen Groenendijk

    contemporaryFormal Semantics / Dynamic Semantics

    b. 1949

    Jeroen Groenendijk is a Dutch logician and formal semanticist at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC). He is best known for co-developing Dynamic Predicate Logic with Martin Stokhof, which models anaphoric relations and inter-sentential binding as dynamic updates to information states. His work bridges formal logic, linguistics, and the semantics of questions and discourse.

    Notable Achievements

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    Co-developed Dynamic Predicate Logic (DPL) with Martin Stokhof, extending first-order logic with dynamic binding across sentence boundaries

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    Foundational contributions to the formal semantics of questions and answers, including the partition semantics for interrogatives

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    Advanced dynamic approaches to discourse coherence and anaphora resolution

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    Long-term faculty at ILLC, Amsterdam, shaping the Amsterdam school of formal semantics

    Positions & Arguments(1)

    Philosophy of Language

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    The accessibility relation between DRSs is not stipulated but is entailed by the semantics of the DRS language

    Modality & Possibility

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    The accessibility relation between DRSs is not stipulated but is entailed by the semantics of the DRS language

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