Linguistics in the News Archive
The LSA has just learned of the death of Zdenek “Denny” Salzmann, which occurred earlier this Spring. Dr. Salzman was a Life Member of the LSA, having first joined in 1949.
The LSA regrets to announce the passing of Congratulations to LSA member Emily R. Lake, a Doctoral Candidate in Linguistics at Stanford University, on the receipt of a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2021.
The LSA congratulates its members and colleagues on their recent election to two of the most prestigious academies in the United States: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S).
The LSA's Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics (COGEL), in collaboration with SALTED (the SALT Equity & Diversity committee), have developed a guidebook for conference organizers in l
The Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) Fellowships are offered as part of a joint, multi-year funding program of NEH and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance scientific and scholarly knowledge concerning endangered human languages.
Please join the LSA in congratulating Maziar Toosarvandani (UC Santa Cruz), Ivy Sichel (UC Santa Cruz), and Matthew Wagers (UC Santa Cruz) on recently being awarded an NSF grant for research on rarely studied languages.
Please join the LSA in congratulating recently elected Fellows of the British Academy, David Adger (Queen Mary University of London), Alice Harris (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh).
Please join the LSA in congratulating Mary Murphy for being awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant.
Please join the LSA in congratulating Barbara Partee on being awarded the 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.
The LSA is happy to report that numerous former and current LSA members are taking part in ABRALIN ao Vivo - Linguistics Online, an online series of linguistics talks.
Please join the LSA in congratulating recently elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University), Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa), and Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University).
The LSA is pleased to announce that LSA Member Michael Obiri-Yeboah has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation
The LSA is pleased to announce that LSA Member Diane Brentari has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2020. Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated
The LSA is pleased to report that U.S.
The LSA is extremely pleased to announce that The Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Reauthorization Act was adopted by the US House of Representatives on December 9, 2019.
The LSA would like to congratulate four members, Jennifer Cole (Northwestern University), Suzanne Flynn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Allard Jongman (University of Kansas), and Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University) for being elected as