Thom van Gessel

I am a PhD candidate at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in Amsterdam.

As a member of the Inquisitive Semantics group, I work on Quantification and modality in the realm of questions, under supervision of Floris Roelofsen. Within this project, I focus on modality in questions. I am currently working on a two-dimensional extension of Inquisitive Semantics, in order to account for indexicals, apriority, necessity, and other phenomena.

• Action Models in Inquisitive Logic. Synthese, 197(9), pp. 3905-3945, 2020
• Polarity sensitivity of question embedding: experimental evidence. With Alexandre Cremers & Floris Roelofsen. Proceedings of SALT 28, pp. 217–232, 2018.
• Action Models in Inquisitive Logic. MSc Thesis, 2016.

• A priori and necessary questions. OZSW Conference, Amsterdam, 2019.
• A priori and necessary questions. SPE 11, Warsaw, 2019.
• Two-dimensional Inquisitive Semantics. InqBnB3, Amsterdam, 2019.
• Action Models in Inquisitive Logic. Inquisitive Logic Workshop, Amsterdam, 2018.
• Polarity sensitivity of question embedding: experimental evidence. SALT 28, 2018.
• Pair-list readings in Inquisitive Semantics. NYU Linguistics department, 2018.
• Pair-list readings of questions with quantifiers, PALLMYR, London, 2017.
• Questions & Quantifiers. InqBnB, Broek in Waterland, 2017.
• Questions in Action Models. LogiCIC, Amsterdam, 2016.

• Fall 2020 Logica en de linguistic turn, University of Amsterdam
• Fall 2019 Teaching assistant for Logic & Conversation, University of Amsterdam
• Spring 2019 Teaching assistant for Structures for Semantics, University of Amsterdam
• Fall 2018 Teaching assistant for Philosophical Logic, University of Amsterdam
• Fall 2017 Teaching assistant for Philosophical Logic, University of Amsterdam
• Fall 2017 Teaching assistant for Logic & Conversation, University of Amsterdam
• Spring 2017 Teaching assistant for Structures for Semantics, University of Amsterdam

Education

• 2014 – 2016 MSc Logic
  University of Amsterdam, cum laude
• 2010 – 2013 BA Dutch Language and Culture
  University of Amsterdam, cum laude

Awards

• 2016 NAP-day Best Presentation
  Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam
• 2013 Thesis award
  Department Taalbeheersing, Argumentatietheorie en Retorica,
  University of Amsterdam

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Room F1.10
Amsterdam

mail@thomvangessel.nl
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