The Linguistic Society of America is pleased to announce the following awards, which will be presented in a ceremony preceding the Presidential Address on Saturday evening , January 5 at its Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. 

• The Best Paper in Language Award, to Bruce Hayes (University of California, Los Angeles), Colin Wilson (University of California, Los Angeles) and Anne Shisko (University of California, Los Angeles) for their article,  "Maxent Grammars for the Metrics of Shakespeare and Milton", which will appear in Vol 88, No. 4 (December 2012)

•  The Early Career Award, recognizing scholars early in their career who have made outstanding contributions to the field of linguistics, to Jon Sprouse (University of California, Irvine)

•  The Linguistic Service Award, which honors members of the LSA who have performed distinguished service to the Society, to David Lightfoot (Georgetown University), for his invaluable assistance in charting a course for the LSA’s publishing program. 

•  The Student Abstract Award, given for the highest-ranked student-authored abstracts:  1st place, to John Sylak (University of California, Berkeley)  for The Phonetic Properties of Voiced Stops Descended from Nasals in Ditidaht; 2nd place, to Marc Garellek (University of California, Los Angeles) for Prominence vs. phrase-initial strengthening of voice quality; 3rd place, to Josef Fruehwald (University of Pennsylvania) for Differentiating Phonetically and Phonologically Conditioned Sound Change

• The 2013 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award goes to California Indian Languages, by Victor Golla (University of California Press, 2011).  California Indian Languages is a remarkable piece of documentary linguistics, achieving its goal "to be the reference of first resort" on the indigenous languages of California for both neophytes and experts. This work extensively documents the remarkable unity and diversity found in the languages of California.

The LSA is also pleased to announce the 2013 Class of Fellows, who have been elected such by virtue of their distinguished contributions to the discipline:  Edwin Battistella, Southern Oregon University; Ellen Broselow, Stony Brook University; Jane Hill, University of Arizona; Hans Henrich Hock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Johanna B. Nichols, University of California, Berkeley; David Pesetsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dennis Preston, Oklahoma State University; Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts;   Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University.  The Fellows will be inducted during a ceremony at the Annual Business Meeting at 5:30 PM on Friday, January 4th, 2013.

More information about LSA Honors and Awards and their past recipients is available here.  More information about LSA Fellows, including lists of fellows by name and by year of induction, is available here.