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In Memoriam: Jeroen Groenendijk (1949-2023)

Brian Leiter

A longtime member of the faculty at the Univeristy of Amsterdam, where he also did his degrees, Professor Groenenduk was especially well-known for the application of logical methods in the semantics and pragmatics of natural language in works that were of great interest to linguistis and philosophers of language.  The Amsterdam memorial notice is here.  Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Groenendijk, or for those who wish to comment on the significance of his work.

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  1. Curtis Franks

    The sentence "He was one of the authors of the Gamut two-volume textbook in logic and Montague grammar, which is translated in English, Spanish and Chinese" in the Amsterdam memorial might puzzle some readers. "L. T. F. Gamut" is a sort of acrostic pseudonym that five Dutch logicians and linguists used to publish joint work in the 80s and 90s. Their work gives voice to a view about the natural of language that, despite its great influence across many disciplines, is deserving of even more explicit philosophical appreciation and historical situation.

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