The Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop

The Semantics and Pragmatics workshop has been in existence as an informal study group holding discussion meetings, presentations of ongoing student and faculty work and guest lectures for several years. In the past two years it gained considerable momentum, with a growing number of students participating and a diversification of interests that has often attracted audiences from other departments at Stanford and elsewhere. Talks and other activities are now routinely attended by members of a similar group at the University of California, Santa Cruz and of scholars from several other neighboring institutions. For the 1999/2000 academic year, we gratefully acknowledge a grant from the Stanford Humanities Center, which enables us to hold several events with invited speakers.

We hold "mini-symposia" with a couple of speakers, discussion and questions. Speakers have about 40 minutes to talk. To make sure that that is enough, we recommend preparatory readings which will be posted along with the talks on this web site. We hope to make the symposia both informative and entertaining, with a well-prepared audience and some good snacks afterwards. At least the former is not entirely under our control, though.

We are also holding meetings without speakers in between the "mini-symposia," in which we talk about the readings or unrelated things. Those meetings will be announced on these pages as well.

Here are links to some of the regular members of the group:*

Faculty: David Beaver Cleo Condoravdi Jerry Hobbs Beth Levin Stanley Peters Ivan Sag Peter Sells Elizabeth Traugott	Students: Makin Abdulkhaliq Ash Asudeh Kathryn Campbell-Kibler Brady Clark Martina Faller John Fry Stefan Kaufmann Dave McKercher Shiao-Wei Tham
Associated groups: UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Department UC Berkeley Linguistics Department

*If you feel sufficiently associated with the workshop to have your name listed here and it isn't, just drop us a note. If your name does appear here but you think it shouldn't, let us know.

These pages are maintained by Stefan Kaufmann.
Mail comments to kaufmann@csli.stanford.edu.
Last modified: Sun Jun 25 23:19:06 2000