02/14/2020

The LSA is proud to sponsor Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 30, the premier North American conference on semantics as a part of linguistic theory.  The 30th SALT will be hosted by Cornell Unive

02/03/2020

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.

01/31/2020

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.

01/22/2020

The LSA is pleased to announce that LSA Member Lise Dobrin has been awarded a year-long National Endowment from the Humanities-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication.

01/14/2020

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).

01/13/2020

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

01/09/2020

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

12/19/2019

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.

12/18/2019

The LSA is delighted to announce the winners of five CEDL Travel Grants to attend the upcoming 2020 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

12/17/2019

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.

12/13/2019

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

12/06/2019

In conjunction with its 2019 observance of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, the LSA is pleased to announce the

12/02/2019

The LSA's flagship journal Language is delighted to announce a roster of new Associate Editors (AEs) who will begin their service in 20

11/14/2019

The LSA is delighted to announce that the inaugural Elizabeth Dayton Award will be given to Valentyna Filimonova (Indiana University Bloomington), pictured at right. 

11/13/2019

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:

11/13/2019

Come join this webinar to find out what linguistics departments are doing to develop open policies in a manner consistent with disciplinary norms and values.  The webinar will be led by representatives from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's

11/04/2019

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).

11/01/2019

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.

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