My grant to the National Science Foundation was recently funded. (I am, as the kids say, stoked about that.) As part of the project, I want to host a kind of boot-camp-meets-workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of modal and conditional constructions. (Suggestions for cute acronyms welcome.) The idea is to have enough of the boot-camp element that the graduate students here at Michigan get totally up to speed on what they need to know in order to follow the workshop-element.

I’ve clearly been lazy about updating this site. Or busy. Anyway, Kai and I finished drafts of some of our thoughts about epistemic modals: “Epistemic modality for dummies” is a kind of survey paper, and “CIA leaks” is where we throw down our gauntlet for relativist semantics for epistemic modals. (Of course, you can get these papers from Kai’s much slicker site, too.)