Ruth Kempson

Associate Researcher


Recent Publications

Purver, M., Sadrzadeh, M., Kempson, R., Wijnholds, G. & Hough, J. (2021). Incremental Composition in Distributional Semantics. Journal of Logic, Language and Information,

Gregoromichelaki, E. Kempson, R. Howes, C. (2020) Actionism in Syntax and Semantics in Howes, C., Dobnik, S. and Breitholtz, E., (eds.) CLASP Papers in Computational Linguistics Volume 2: Dialogue and Perception - Extended papers from DaP2018 Gothenburg : GUPEA, ISSN 2002-264, http://hdl.handle.net/2077/63998

Gregoromichelaki,, Mills, Howes, Eshghi, Kempson, Chatzikyriakidis, Purver. (2020). Completability vs (In)completeness. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 52(2), 260-284.

Gregoromichelaki, E., Chatzikyriakidis, S., Eshghi, A., Hough, J., Howes, C., Kempson, R. 2020). Affordance competition in dialogue: the case of syntactic universals. In Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. SEMDIAL

Gregoromichelaki, E. & Kempson, R (2019) Procedural Syntax. In Carston R, Clark B, & Scott K. (eds), Relevance:: Pragmatics and Interpretation. Cambridge University Press.

Kempson, R., Gregoromichelaki, E., Eshghi, A., Hough, J. (2019). “Ellipsis in Dynamic Syntax” In: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Tanja Temmerman (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis. Oxford University Press.

Kempson R. & Cann R. (2018) Grammar as procedures: language interaction and the predictive turn.Turner & Horn (eds) Pragmatics, Truth and Interpretation 261-99 Brill

Kempson, R., Cann, R., Gregoromichelaki, E., Chatzikyriakidis, S. (2016). Language as Mechanisms for Interaction. Theoretical Linguistics, Volume 42, Issue 3-4, 203–276

Kempson, R., Cann, R., Gregoromichelaki, E., Chatzikyriakidis, S. (2017). Action-based Grammar. In Theoretical Linguistics, 43(1-2), 141-167.