Stanford University

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 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, 2001 and 2002.

This year's workshop events include the Semantics Fest on March 14, 2003 and invited speakers whose research is relevant to one of this year's themes:

Autumn: Words versus Constructions
Winter: Cross-linguistic Semantics
Spring:   Discourse and Dialogue

The workshop will also feature talks by Stanford students and faculty on topics related to meaning broadly construed. We would like to see more presentations of work in progress and conference practice talks included in the workshop line-up. Please contact one of the workshop organizers if you would like to present your work.

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