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The Construction of Meaning 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. Over the past two years it gained considerable momentum, with a growing number of students, faculty, and visitors participating and a diversification of interests that has often attracted audiences from other Stanford departments and several nearby institutions. Since the academic year 1999/2000, the workshop has been sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. We gratefully acknowledge their support, which has allowed an expansion of the workshop's activities; it has allowed us to host several events with invited speakers and to hold a day-long Semantics Fest in March 2000 and 2001.

This year we have again chosen three themes, and we will invite several speakers whose research is relevant to that theme. Each theme is loosely associated with a quarter. The themes are:

Autumn: Questions and related constructions
Winter: Cross-linguistic perspectives on word meaning
Spring:   Semantic change

Speakers will have about 45 minutes to talk, followed by ample time for questions and discussion. In addition, we will also hold some workshop meetings with local speakers on topics in Semantics that fall outside the themes. The meetings will usually be held on Friday afternoons.
 
 
 

If you would like to receive e-mailed announcements regarding workshop activities, you can subscribe to the workshop's mailing list, by sending the command:

     subscribe semantics-group

in the body of a message to Majordomo@csli.stanford.edu.

Archives of previous years can be viewed at the following links:
   1997,1998,1999,2000 2001