Martin Stokhof is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 logic

Logic

In philosophy, Logic is the formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning. Logic is used in most intellectual activities, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, semantics, and computer science...

ian and philosopher

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

. Stokhof wrote a joint Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...

 dissertation with Jeroen Groenendijk

Jeroen Groenendijk

Jeroen Groenendijk is a Dutch logician, linguist and philosopher, working on philosophy of language, formal semantics, pragmatics, and semantics of questions. His current work is mainly focused on studying and developing the recently founded framework of Inquisitive Semantics.He is a member of the...

 on the semantics

Semantics

Semantics is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, such as words, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotata....

 of questions. He was also an important figure in the development of dynamic semantics (together with Groenendijk, Veltman and others). He is a former director of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation

The Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation is a research institute of the University of Amsterdam, in which researchers from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities collaborate....

 at the University of Amsterdam. He is also known for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947...

. Stokhof is a member of the group collectively publishing under the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 L. T. F. Gamut.