Ruth Margaret Kempson,

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(born 26 June 1944) is a British

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. She is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at

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. In 1977, Kempson published ''Semantic Theory'', which discusses the concept of

entailment Logical consequence (also entailment) is a fundamental concept Concepts are defined as abstract ideas A mental representation (or cognitive representation), in philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies th ...

in linguistics. A proposition (P) is entailed by another (Q) if P is true when Q is true and Q is false when P is false, but Q is not strictly defined if P is true. She was awarded a

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in 1989. She has made contributions to the theoretical framework of Dynamic syntax.

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