Recent LSA news

Inaugural Elizabeth Dayton Award to Go to Indiana Linguist

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

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New Officers, Executive Committee Members, and Co-Editor of Language Elected

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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:

Vice President/President-Elect: Laurence Horn (Yale University, Emeritus) will serve a three-year term on the LSA's Executive Committee -- the first year as Vice President, the second as President, and the third as Past President.

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Mark Your Calendars for Our Next Webinar: Aligning Linguistic Research Incentives and Open Scholarship

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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 Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science, a multiyear project convening critical stakeholders to fundamentally improve the correlation between open practices, credit/reward systems, and research missions & valu

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Linguistics in the news

In Memoriam: Knud Lambrecht, 1939-2019

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The LSA is saddened to announce the passing of former LSA member Knud Lambrecht, who was a Professor Emeritus of French Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, and passed away on September 6, 2019, at the age of 80.

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Laurels to Linguists: Luigi Rizzi

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Congratulations to one of LSA's honorary foreign members Luigi Rizzi for being elected as a Professor at the Collège de France. The Collège has around 50 chairs in a variety of disciplines, in both science and the humanities. The disciplines and the new members are selected in a rigorous procedure by the professors of the Collège themselves.To be elected at the Collège is one of the highest academic distinctions in France. 

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Laurels to Linguists: Murcia University Assembly Nominates Peter Trudgill for Honoris Causa Doctorate

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We are delighted to announce that LSA member Peter Trudgill has been chosen for an Honoris Causa doctorate by the University of Murcia, with the support of the LSA and fourteen other institutions and professional organizations.



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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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Linguistic Experts

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The LSA Media Experts Database provides contact information for more than 50 experts, from all fields of linguistics, who are available to talk with the media. If you are unsure who to contact or have any other media questions, please email LSA Executive Director Alyson Reed.

 

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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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