Jeroen Groenendijk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jeroen Groenendijk

Dutch logician, linguist and philosopher

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1949

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Profession: philosopher, linguist, logician

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Jeroen Antonius Gerardus Groenendijk (Dutch pronunciation: ['?run?(n)d?ik]; born 20 July 1949, Amsterdam), is a Dutch logician, linguist and philosopher, working on philosophy of language, formal semantics, pragmatics. Groenendijk wrote a joint Ph.D.
dissertation with Martin Stokhof on the formal semantics of questions, under the supervision of Renate Bartsch and Johan van Benthem.
He was also an important figure in the development of dynamic semantics (together with Stokhof, Veltman and others, following earlier work by Irene Heim and Hans Kamp).
His current work is mainly focused on studying and developing the recently founded framework of Inquisitive Semantics. He is a former director of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the group collectively publishing under the pseudonym L.
T.
F.
Gamut.