LSA News Archive
It gives the LSA great pleasure to announce that the Best Paper in Language 2019 Award will be given to "The noun-verb distinction in established and emergent sign systems" by (pictured below, clockwise from upper left) Natasha Abner, Molly Flaherty, Katelyn Stangl, Marie Coppola, Diane
The LSA is delighted to announce the debut of a joint membership arrangement with the American Dialect Society (ADS) whereby members of one of the societies will receive a $5 discount on membership in the other.
The LSA is delighted to announce that Jon Sprouse (University of Connecticut) has been selected to receive the LSA's inaugural C.L.
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The LSA is pleased to announce the publication of the fourth volume of our newest conference proceedings publication: the Wor
The LSA reports with regret the death of Dorothy C. Siegel on September 22, 2019. Dorothy joined the LSA in 1997 as a faculty member of the University of Toledo's Department of English Language and Literature.
Please join the LSA in congratulating the recipients of the Early Career Award, the Kenneth L.
Please join the LSA Secretariat in welcoming our new part-time Administrative Assistant Beth Riebe, who started work toda
The LSA is pleased to issue the official call for applications to students interested in attending its Annual Meeting via the CEDL Travel Award program.
The LSA regretfully reports that emeritus professor Gary Holland of UC Berkeley has passed away earlier last week.
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We are delighted to announce that Raul Aranovich and Georgia Zellou, the Co-Directors of the LSA's 2019 Linguistic Institute at the University of California, Davis, will be inducted as
The LSA joined the leadership of colleague scholarly societies in expressing strong concerns about recent actions by the US Department of Education to interfere with curriculum decisions made by the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, a Title VI National Resource Cent
The LSA is delighted to announce that nine of the field's leading linguists have been elected Fellows of the LSA. They will be inducted in a ceremony at the
The LSA is delighted to announce that its Executive Committee has recently approved the establishment of a new Committee on LGBTQ+ [Z] Issues in Linguistics (COZIL). The committee is an o
The September issue of Language is now available online at Project MUSE.
The LSA is pleased to announce the finalists for the fourth annual Five-minute Linguist to be held at the 2020 Annual Meeting. T
The LSA reports with regret the death on September 2, 2019 of Karl Zimmer, a Life Member of the LSA, and a member since 1958.