LSA News Archive
Applications are now available for scholarships to attend CoLang 2014, the Institute on Collaborative Language Research, which will take place in June and July, 2014 at the University of Texas at Arlington unde
The Linguistic Society of America is seeking a talented communications professional to fill a new position at its headquarters in Washington, DC.
The LSA joined with scores of national scientific societies in opposing the FIRST Act (HR 4186), which proposes a 42 percent reduction in funding for the Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation.
A new study reveals that four-to-seven-year-old children rely on the sounds of new nouns more than on their meaning when assigning them to noun classes, even though the meaning is more predictive of noun class in the adult language.
The Linguistic Academic Depository (LAD) -- an exclusive benefit for LSA members -- is a site for linguists to share teaching materials. Members of the LSA can deposit or download syllabi, exercises, handouts, and other pedagogical documents.
At a special ceremony organized at the University of Connecticut Storrs campus, LSA Executive Committee Members Troy Messick and Susan Fischer presented Jonathan Bobaljik with the 2014 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion, Superlatives and the Str
Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond the control of the LSA, the 2015 Annual Meeting will not be held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, as originally scheduled.
The Program Committee of the LSA is accepting proposals for Organized Sessions to be held at the 2015 Annual Meeting. An organized session is an excellent opportunity to present a group of similarly-focused presentations on a wide variety of topics and in a wide variety of formats.
The LSA is delighted to announce the recent appointment of Dr. Helen Goodluck (York University) as Book Review Editor for Language, for a term of three years beginning in January 2014. Dr.
The LSA regrets to report the death, on February 13, 2014, of Charles J. Fillmore (University of California, Berkeley, Emeritus), Past President (1991) of the Society and a Life Member.
The LSA will entertain proposals for satellite workshops to be held immediately before or after the LSA’s 2015 Annual Meeting, which will be held in San Francisco, California from January 8-11.
The Nominating Committee of the LSA is soliciting nominations from LSA members for the Vice President/President-Elect and members-at-large of the Executive Committee, including self-nominations. We ask nominators to provide a brief statement (ca.
LSA member and former President (2012) Keren Rice has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada for her contributions as a linguist and scholar whose research on Canada’s North has notably helped to preserve the Athapaskan languages.
The LSA has endorsed a letter prepared by the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) addressed to the Chair of the U.S.
The Media Advisory provides journalists with a round-up of research and program highlights, including "newsworthy abstracts" selected by the LSA Program and Public Relations Committees.
Research conducted by LSA members Amanda Ritchart (University of California, San Diego) and Amalia Arvaniti (University of Kent) is garnering attention from major news media outlets, including the BBC News and th
“Toward a taxonomy of projective content” (Language 89.1, 2013), authored by
The LSA is pleased to announce the appointment of Sandra Chung (UC Santa Cruz) to a four-year term as Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies. Dr.
Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion, Superlatives, and the Structure of Words (MIT Press, 2012), has been selected to receive the 2014 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award.