LSA News Archive
The LSA is pleased to announce the selection of African American Language as the recipient of the LSA's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for 2022.
The LSA is delighted to announce that Allyson Waller has been selected as this year's recipient of our Linguistics Journalism Award.
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced earlier this week a grant award of $227,420 to the LSA as part of its Media Projects Productio
The LSA is delighted to announce that seven of the field's leading linguists have been elected Fellows of the LSA. They will be inducted in a ceremony at the
In a letter to LSA members sent earlier today, LSA President Larry Horn outlined recent actions taken by the Executive Committee, including the appointment of a new Ombuds Committee.
"Dear LSA Members:
On July 5th, the LSA announced the loss of LSA member Dr. Jiahui Huang (1991-2021), who was completing his graduate studies in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington in Seattle when his life was lost in a hiking accident on Mt. Rainier.
The LSA has a variety of Awards and Honors that highlight the achievement of its members, from promising students to established scholars, and several have nominations due later this month!
The LSA regrets to announce the passing of LSA member Dr. Gjert Kristoffersen (13 Aug 1949-29 May 2021), professor of linguistics with a specialization in phonetics and Norwegian prosody.
At its most recent meeting, the LSA Executive Committee adopted a statement and
Earlier this week, two groups of LSA leaders and members adopted statements relating to a range of issues at the intersection of language, linguistics and the indigenous communities of North America.
Check out cutting-edge research from the LSA's flagship journal! The latest issue includes articles on the effects of phonotactics on alternation learning, rethinking cartography, Mayan syntactic structures, velum kinematics in German, and more.
The LSA is pleased to announce the establishment of its newest award, intended to recognize the contributions of LGBTQ+ scholars in Linguistics. Named for Arnold Zwicky, the first out LGBTQ+ President of the LSA, the award recipient will
The LSA regrets to report the passing of LSA Life Member Dr. W. Keith Percival (February 24th, 1930-December 6th, 2020).
In collaboration with COZIL, the LSA's Committee on LGBTQ+[Z] Issues in Linguistics, we are pleased to announce the publication of new blog posts and a special online event in celebration of Pride Month!
We are happy to announce that the late June deadline previously advertised for submission of Paper and Poster Abstracts for the 2022 LSA Annual Meeting has been finalized.
The LSA's Linguistics Beyond Academia Special Interest Group will kick off the first-ever virtual summer “boot camp” in July 2021 that focuses exclusively on career training for linguists.
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Join the editor of Language, Andries Coetzee, and the associate editors of the Language and Public Policy (LPP) section, Patricia Cukor-Avila and Vaidehi Ramanathan, for a discussion about LPP issues and its place in the journal. The overall aim of this section is to raise awarenes
The LSA Executive Committee (EC) is currently considering a proposal to revamp our dues structure from the current flat fees by category to a progressive/sliding scale structure based on income.
The LSA regrets to announce the death of emeritus Professor Victor Golla, a talented and well-known historical linguist who contributed to several fields of linguistics, including decades of work toward the scholarship of Native American languages.