LSA News Archive
The Linguistic Society of America is pleased to announce that The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology, by Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber, and
The Linguistic Society of America recently joined more than 60 organizations in calling on Congress to pass a bill providing sustainable funding for the National Science Foundation.
Tweet a description of your LSA presentation, starting with "My #LSA2015 talk:", by December 1 for your chance to win a year of LSA membership!
With the Linguistic Society of America's 2014 elections completed, the LSA is pleased to announce that Alice Harris, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named the next
The Linguistic Society of America is pleased to name Ben Zimmer as the first recipient of our Linguistics Journalism Award.
Michel DeGraff, MIT professor and leader of the MIT-Haiti Initiative, is the LSA's newest Member Spotlight. Read Prof. DeGraff's member profile on the LSA website.
If you're just starting your career as a linguist, or if you're interested in boosting your computational or phonetic skills, join the LSA at our Annual Meeting for one of our three minicourses.
The Linguistic Society of America was recently notified of a security vulnerability within Drupal, the content management system used to run the LSA website.
Why are suffixes more common than prefixes across the languages of the world? A forthcoming article suggests that prosody, the stress and intonation patterns of speech, may provide the answer.
Over 30 extended abstracts from the Linguistic Society of America's 2014 Annual Meeting are now available free online:
The LSA notes with regret the death of William H. Jacobsen, a Life Member (and member since 1952) of the Society. Click here for an obituary from the University of Nevada-Reno, where he taught for many years.
Starting today, event registration is open for the LSA's 2015 Annual Meeting. Our 89th Annual Meeting will be held in Portland, Oregon, from Thursday, January 8, 2015 to Sunday, January 11.
The LSA reports with regret the September 27, 2014 death of Anna Morpurgo Davies, an Honorary Member of the LSA since 1993. Click here for an obituary (Somervil
The 2015 LSA Annual Meeting is less than four months away, and we're excited to announce the recipients of this year's Student Abstr
A paper modeling Tuscan dialects and a discussion of Universal Grammar's role in child-language acquisition are two of several highlights from the September issue of Language, just released online.
The authors of a recently-published linguistics textbook have pledged to donate its proceeds to the Linguistic Society of America.
This year, the LSA Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics (CEDL) is awarding four student travel grants intended to increase the participation of ethnoracial minorities in the LSA*.
The Linguistic Society of America has endorsed the reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act, a Senate bill which would increase funding for the National Science Foundation over the next five years.
The Linguistic Society of America is pleased to announce that Muriel Fisher has been named the recipient of the 2015 Excellence in Community Linguistics Award.
The LSA is planning to hold a collaborative Wikipedia editing session at the 2015 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, next January.