Recent LSA news

LSA Awarded Second NEH Grant for the Subtitle Podcast

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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 Production program.

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LSA Elects 2022 Class of Fellows

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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 LSA Annual Meeting on Friday, January 7, 2022.

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LSA Establishes Ombuds Committee to Assist with Member Concerns

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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:

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Linguistics in the news

In Memoriam: Lila Gleitman

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The LSA regrets to announce the passing of Lila R. Gleitman (b. 1929), Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Gleitman, a life member of the LSA, first joined the Society in 1957. She served as LSA President in 1993 and was elected as a member of the first class of LSA Fellows in 2006.

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Laurels for Linguists: LSA Members Elected to the Academia Europaea

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The LSA congratulates its members on their recent elections to the Academia Europaea!

The Academia Europaea is an organization focused on promoting European, international, and interdisciplinary research, and advising governments and other organizations, and advancing scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences.

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Laurels for Linguists: Mellon/ACLS Fellowship Awarded to Emily R. Lake

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Congratulations to LSA member Emily R. Lake, a Doctoral Candidate in Linguistics at Stanford University, on the receipt of a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2021. Lake's Dissertation is focused on Stylistic Variation in a Preschool Classroom.

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Resources for the Media

Linguistic Experts

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The LSA Media Experts Database provides journalists with access to a range of expertise from all fields of linguistics, from linguists who are available to talk with the media. For a referral to an appropriate linguist, please email LSA Executive Director Alyson Reed.

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Media Inquiries

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Please contact LSA Executive Director Alyson Reed for LSA interview requests, linguistic news announcements, and other media communications.

For urgent inquiries, please call Ms. Reed at 202-835-1714.

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LSA News Releases

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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 interest. This archive includes all LSA news releases since January 2008.

(For an archive of all LSA stories appearing on the previous LSA website from 2003 to 2012, click here.)

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