LSA News Archive
The LSA is pleased to announce that LSA Member William Labov has been awarded The Talcott Parsons Prize for distinguished and original contributions to the social sciences.
The webinar will take place on Friday, February 28 from 1:30 - 3:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time. Click here to find out more and to register.
The LSA is pleased to announce that the Universal Scripts Project, led by long-time LSA member Deborah Anderson, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The LSA is delighted to announce its newest member benefit: an online Distance Mentoring Facility which will enable LSA members to identify themselves as mentees, mentors, or both, with specific areas of scholarly and professional concern, and to search the LSA member directory for a mentoring pa
CoLang 2020 and the Linguistic Society of America are delighted to announce that scholarship applications are being accepted for CoLang2020, hosted by the University of Montana in
The LSA is pleased to announce that the first in a series of special issues for our flagship journal, Language, has just been published. The special issue on Indigenous Languages is available in two parts: 20th and 21st-Century Perspectives.
The LSA is delighted to announce the winners of five CEDL Travel Grants to attend the upcoming 2020 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The LSA is pleased to announce the publication of the newest title in its book series partnership with Routledge: Linguistics and Law, by Jeffrey P. Kaplan. A portion of royalties from the sale of this book benefit the LSA.
The LSA is delighted to announce that the 2020 Excellence in Community Linguistics Award will be given to Mosyel Syelsaangthyel Khaling (pictured at right, in red turban) for his work with the endangered Southern Tangkhulic language Uipo in the Indian State of Manipur. The citation fo
In conjunction with its 2019 observance of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, the LSA is pleased to announce the
The LSA's flagship journal Language is delighted to announce a roster of new Associate Editors (AEs) who will begin their service in 20
The LSA is delighted to announce that the inaugural Elizabeth Dayton Award will be given to Valentyna Filimonova (Indiana University Bloomington), pictured at right.
In the voting which concluded on November 2, the following were elected to office in the LSA, effective at the end of the 2020 Annual Meeting:
The LSA is delighted to announce that the 2020 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award will be given to Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon) for his book Changing Minds Changing Tools: From Learning Theory to Language Acquisition to Language Change (MIT Press, 2018).
The LSA is pleased to announce the publication of the newest title in its book series partnership with Routledge: Bilingualism, by Shahrzad Mahootian. A portion of royalties from the sale of this book benefit the LSA.
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