Construction of Meaning Workshop
The Construction of Meaning Workshop provides a forum for addressing developments in the treatment of meaning in linguistic theory.
It sponsors presentations of ongoing student and faculty work, lectures by invited speakers, and an annual SemFest, a conference showcasing local research on semantics and pragmatics.
Workshop Events
The Construction of Meaning Workshop organizes weekly meetings throughout the academic year. Please see the Upcoming Events list in the box below for details of upcoming meetings with external speakers.
Annual SemFest
The yearly Sem(antics)Fest is intended to promote discussion and collaboration among all those in the Stanford community interested in the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, as well as their interface with other modules of grammar. It includes contributions from members of the Department of Linguistics with interests in semantics and pragmatics, as well as from members of the Stanford University community who share these interests.
The first SemFest was organized in 2000 by David Beaver and Stefan Kaufmann as part of the activities of a Stanford Humanities Center Graduate Research Workshop, The Construction of Meaning. A volume of the same name collecting papers from the first SemFest was published by CSLI in 2002. The 10th and 20th anniversary SemFests were two-day events which included many alumni of previous SemFests.
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