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Authored Books

Marten, Lutz, Cann, Ronnie and Kempson, Ruth (2005) The Dynamics of Language. An Introduction. Leiden: Brill.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Orwin, Martin, Howes, Christine and Kempson, Ruth, eds. (2013) Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications. (Communication, Mind and Language)

Book Chapters

Orwin, Martin (2013) 'Dynamic Syntax as a basis for modelling meaning in music?' In: Orwin, Martin, Howes, Christine and Kempson, Ruth, (eds.), Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications, pp. 51-65. (Communication, Mind and Language)

Kempson, Ruth and Orwin, Martin (2013) 'Language and music as mechanisms for interaction.' In: Orwin, Martin, Howes, Christine and Kempson, Ruth, (eds.), Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications, pp. 133-169.

Orwin, Martin, Howes, Christine and Kempson, Ruth (2013) 'Preface.' In: Orwin, Martin, Howes, Christine and Kempson, Ruth, (eds.), Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications, pp. 1-13. (Communication, Mind and Language)

Widdess, Richard (2013) 'Schemas and improvisation in Indian music.' In: Kempson, Ruth, Howes, Christine and Orwin, Martin, (eds.), Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications, pp. 197-209.

Chao, Wynn and Bach, Emmon (2012) 'The Metaphysics of Natural Language(s).' In: Kempson, Ruth, Fernando, Tim and Asher, Nicholas, (eds.), Philosophy of Linguistics, 14. Amsterdam: North Holland, Elsevier, pp. 175-196. (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science)

Kempson, Ruth, Marten, Lutz and Thwala, Nhlanhla (2011) 'SiSwati clefts: The meeting ground of context and contrast.' In: Kempson, Ruth, Gregoromichelaki, Eleni and Howes, Christine, (eds.), The Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces. Stanford: CSLI, pp. 23-60. (Studies in constraint-based lexicalism)

Kula, Nancy C. and Marten, Lutz (2011) 'The prosody of Bemba relative clauses: a case study of the syntax-phonology interface in Dynamic Syntax.' In: Kempson, Ruth, Gregoromichelaki, Eleni and Howes, Christine, (eds.), The Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces. Stanford: CSLI, pp. 61-90.

Marten, Lutz, Kempson, Ruth and Bouzouita, Miriam (2008) 'Concepts of structural underspecification in Bantu and Romance.' In: de Cat, Cécile and Demuth, Katherine, (eds.), The Romance-Bantu Connection. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 3-39.

Marten, Lutz and Kempson, Ruth (2006) 'Dynamic Syntax.' In: Brown, Keith, (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics, 2nd ed.; v.4. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 33-37.

Cann, Ronnie, Kempson, Ruth, Marten, Lutz, Otsuka, Masayuki and Swinburne, David (2004) 'On the left and on the right.' In: Adger, David, de Cat, Cécile and Tsoulas, George, (eds.), Peripheries: Syntactic Edges and their Effects. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 19-47. (Studies in natural language and linguistic theory, v. 59)

Journal Article

Kempson, Ruth, Cann, Ronnie and Marten, Lutz (2013) 'Tree growth dynamics.' STIL Studies in Linguistics 6: Special Issue on Directionality of Phrase Structure Building, 6. pp. 49-81.

Cann, Ronnie, Kempson, Ruth, Marten, Lutz and Otsuka, Masayuki (2005) 'Right node raising, co-ordination and the dynamics of language processing.' Lingua, 115 (4). pp. 503-525.

Marten, Lutz and Kempson, Ruth (2002) 'Pronouns, agreement, and the dynamic construction of verb phrase interpretation: A Dynamic Syntax approach to Bantu clause structure.' Linguistic Analysis, 32 (3-4). pp. 471-504.

Kempson, Ruth and Marten, Lutz (1999) 'The dynamics of word-order change in the Romance languages.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 9. pp. 21-38.

Theses

Kempson, Ruth (1973) Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029168