Recent LSA News
The 31st annual Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference (SALT) will be hosted (virtually) by Brown University and held May 7-9, 2021 on Zoom. The submission deadline for abstracts is Dec.
Applications are open though December 10, 2020 for one of the LSA's newest awards, the Please join us on Friday, January 22 for the newest in the LSA's "Meet the Authors" webinars showcasing research from our flagship journal, Language. The webinar will take place from 1:00 - 2:30 PM U.S.
Linguistics in the News
The Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) Fellowships are offered as part of a joint, multi-year funding program of NEH and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance scientific and scholarly knowledge concerning endangered human languages.
Please join the LSA in congratulating Maziar Toosarvandani (UC Santa Cruz), Ivy Sichel (UC Santa Cruz), and Matthew Wagers (UC Santa Cruz) on recently being awarded an NSF grant for research on rarely studied languages.
Media Resources
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The LSA periodically issues news releases about research findings published in its journal Language, newsworthy research being presented at its Annual Meeting, the election of new leadership, and other items of int