About Martin Stokhof
Born 1950. Martin Stokhof is a Dutch university teacher, philosopher and linguist.
Martin Stokhof (born 1950, Amsterdam) is a Dutch logician and philosopher. Stokhof wrote a joint Ph.D. dissertation with Jeroen Groenendijk on the 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 Groenendijk, Veltman and others, following work by Irene Heim and Kamp). He is also known for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein.
He is a former director of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the group collectively publishing under the pseudonym L. T. F. Gamut.
In 2006 he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Dutch philosopher
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Martin Stokhof was born in 1950 in Amsterdam.
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