05/17/2022

The LSA is pleased to announce the interim appointment of student member Z.L.

03/28/2022

The LSA is extremely pleased to announce the following recipients of funding awards to participate in CoLang 2022, the Institute on Collaborative Language Research, at the University of Montana later this

03/28/2022

Join us Friday, April 8 at 12 p.m. Eastern for our next “Meet the Author” webinar with Lacey Wade. Dr. Wade will present her recent article published in Language entitled, “Experimental evidence for expectation-driven linguistic convergence.”

03/02/2022

Later today, the LSA will be sending the following statement to its members and promoting it to the wider linguistics community.

03/02/2022

The LSA regrets to announce the death of longtime LSA member Allan Metcalf on February 24, 2022. Metcalf first joined the LSA in 1967, eventually becoming a Life Member of the Society.

02/22/2022

Join presenters Claire Bowern, Irene Yi, and Sarah Babinski for a discussion on their investigation into the accessibility, discoverability, and functionality of archives for use in documenting endangered languages.

02/01/2022
By: Mark Schaefer

The Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America is an annual periodical publication of the LSA containing papers developed from talks, posters, organized sessions, and plenary sessions from the schedule for its Annual Meeting.

01/26/2022

Three distinguished scholars from outside the United States were elected Honorary Members of the LSA at the Society's annual 

01/11/2022
By: Mark Schaefer

The LSA January 2022 webinar will be held on Friday, January 28th, between 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m., U.S. EST.

01/11/2022

The LSA is now accepting applications (through January 31, 2022) for a part-time management position focused on planning our meetings and other events. An overview of the position's responsibilities is outlined below, along with details for submitting an application.

12/10/2021

The LSA is delighted to announce the winners of five CEDL Travel Grants to attend the upcoming 2022 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

12/01/2021

The LSA announces the winners of the Excellence in Community Linguistics Award and the Best Paper in Language Award, given for the best paper published in the LSA's flagship journal in the year of 2021.

11/16/2021

The LSA is pleased to announce new leadership elected to its Executive Committee (EC) for terms beginning in January 2022, along with the results of other ballot issues. 

11/15/2021
By: LSA

The video of last week's Webinar with Evan D. Bradley, Kirby Conrod, Archie Crowley, Lex Konnelly, and Lal Zimman is now available via our YouTube channel.

10/22/2021

The LSA is pleased to announce the finalists for the fifth annual Five-Minute Linguist (5ML) Event to be held at the 2022&n

10/21/2021

In May 2021, the LSA Executive Committee approved the LSA Statement Against Linguistic Misgendering written by the Committee for LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics (COZIL).

10/21/2021

The video of last week's Webinar with authors Gerd Carling and Chundra Cathcart is now available via our YouTube channel.

10/08/2021

The LSA is delighted to announce that the three winners of our annual Student Abstract Awards have been selected. 

10/08/2021

The LSA is delighted to announce that Kirby Conrod has been selected as the inaugural winner of the Arnold Zwicky Award. This award is intended to recognize the contributions of LGBTQ+ scholars in linguis

10/06/2021

Check out cutting-edge research from the LSA's flagship journal!  The latest issue includes articles on the roots of verbal meaning, using recursive programs for phonological analysis, lingua francas as lexical donors, the reconstruction of the evolution of Indo-European grammar, and mo

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