Kempson, Ruth

Kempson, Ruth

Personal Information
Position:	Emeritus Professor
Research areas:	Dialogue Diachronic change Syntax Semantics Pragmatics
Location:	London, UK
Publications
Procedural Syntax Actionism in syntax and semantics Completability vs (In)completeness Language as Mechanisms for Interaction: Towards an Evolutionary Tale Exploring Semantic incrementality with Dynamic Syntax and Vector Space Semantics Grammar as Procedures: Language, Interaction, and the Predictive Turn Chinese cleft structures and the dynamics of processing What Do Words Do for Us? Action-Based Grammar: Response to commentaries on Kempson et al. ``Languages as Mechanisms for Interaction' Cognitive science, language as a tool for interaction, and a new look at language evolution Completability vs (In)completeness Syntax as the dynamics of language understanding Language as Mechanisms for Interaction Reporting, Dialogue, and the Role of Grammar Joint utterances and the (Split-) Turn Taking Puzzle. Ellipsis Ellipsis in Dynamic Syntax Language, Music and Interaction When can you finish someone else's...? Influencing the production of compound contributions in dialogue Grammars as Processes for Interactive Language Use: Incrementality and the Emergence of Joint Intentionality On making syntax dynamic: The challenge of compound utterances and the architecture of the grammar On Coordination in Dialogue: subsentential talk and its implications Tree growth dynamics Conversational Interactions: Capturing Dialogue Dynamics The Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces Natural-language Syntax as Procedures for Interpretation: the Dynamics of Ellipsis Construal Incrementality and Intention-Recognition in Utterance Processing Standard Modern and Pontic Greek Person Restrictions: A feature-free Dynamic Account Incremental Turn Processing in Dialogue Multiple long-distance scrambling: Syntax as reflections of processing Incrementality, Speaker-Hearer Switching and the Disambiguation Challenge How mechanistic can accounts of interaction be? Japanese Scrambling and the Dynamics of On-line Processing At the syntax-pragmatics interface: Japanese relative-clause construal Dialogue Modelling and the Remit of Core Grammar Grammar Resources for Modelling Dialogue Dynamically Semantics: an introduction to meaning in language Periphery Effects and the Dynamics of Tree Growth Concepts of structural underspecification in Bantu and Romance Production pressures, syntactic change and the emergence of clitic pronouns Language in flux: Dialogue coordination, language variation, change and evolution Context and Well-formedness: the Dynamics of Ellipsis Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling: Preliminaries for a dialogue-driven account of syntactic change Clarification requests: An incremental account Grammar Formalisms and Explanations of Dialogue Grammars as Parsers: Meeting the Dialogue Challenge Clitic placement in Old and Modern Spanish: a dynamic account Topic, Focus and The Structural Dynamics of Language Data at the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface: the Case of Resumptive Pronouns in English The Dynamics of Language Right Node Raising, coordination and the dynamics of language processing Incremental Context-Based Generation for Dialogue Incrementality, Alignment and Shared Utterances Incremental Parsing, or Incremental Grammar? What goes left and what goes right Growth of Logical Form: the Dynamics of Syntax Nonrestrictive Relatives and Growth of Logical Form Japanese Scrambling as Growth of Semantic Representation Dialogue as collaborative tree growth The Dynamics of Syntax: Relative Pronouns, Anaphora and Crossover Dynamic Syntax: The Flow of Language Understanding Epsilon Terms: a Labelled Deduction Account Relative clauses, left-periphery effects, and the dynamics of language processing Indefinites as Epsilon Terms: A Labelled Deduction Account VP Ellipsis: Toward a Dynamic Structural Account Topic and Focus: The Dynamics of Tree Growth Crossover: a Unified View Language understanding: A procedural perspective On representationalism in semantics: a dynamic account of WH Parsing natural language using LDS: a prototype Language processing in LDS-NL Syntactic Computation as Labelled Deduction: WH a case study Semantics, pragmatics, and natural-language interpretation Ellipsis as Labelled Deduction Input systems, anaphora, ellipsis and operator binding Natural-language content: a proof-theoretic perspective Labelled abduction and relevance reasoning [View Less]