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Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop:

The Construction of Meaning

Autumn Quarter Series on Philosophy of Language

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Oct. 19, 2000 (Thursday)
3:30pm, Room 60-61G

Paul Pietroski (University of Maryland)
Two (or Three) Conceptions of Compositional Semantics

There will be two pre-talk meetings for those interested:

  • On Oct 12th (3:30-5:30pm, 460-127B), we will meet to discuss a paper by Pietroski called "Actions, Adjuncts and Agency". This paper is located in the Semantics/Pragmatics Workshop box above the graduate student mailboxes, as are other papers by Pietroski.
  • On Oct 19th (noon, Ling Dept patio), we will have lunch with Pietroski to discuss, among other things, the paper we discussed on the 12th.


Oct. 26, 2000 (Thursday)
3:30pm, Room 460-126

Kent Bach (San Francisco State University)
So-Called Semantic Intuitions
The talk will build on the paper, which is available at http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~kbach/intuitions.htm, or in the Semantics Workshop box in the student mailboxes area of the Linguistics Department (Building 460, first floor).

Oct. 31, 2000 (Tuesday)
4:45-6:15 p.m., Room 460-126

Makin Abdulkhaliq (Stanford University)
English Noun Classes and Generative Lexical Mechanisms
Dissertation proposal.

Nov. 30, 2000 (Thursday)
4:00 p.m., Room 460-126

Mark Crimmins (Stanford University)
Truth through Fiction


Dec. 7, 2000 (Thursday)
4:45-6:15 p.m., Room 460-126

David McKercher (Stanford University)
Towards a theory of "with": Evidence from child language
Dissertation proposal.

 
 
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Last modified: Fri Apr 6 23:01:24 2001

This workshop is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, and funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.