David Roach Dowty (born 1945[1]) is a linguist known primarily for his work in semantic and syntactic theory, and especially in Montague grammar and Categorial grammar.
David Dowty received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, with a thesis supervised by Robert Wall and Emmon Bach on the temporal semantics of verbs.
[2] Dowty was editor-in-chief of the journal Linguistics and Philosophy from 1988 to 1992, and associate editor of Language.
For several years he was chairman of the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University.
A one-day symposium was held at the University of Groningen in honour of his sixtieth birthday, subsequently published as Theory and Evidence in Semantics.