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    The LSA Secretariat will close at 3:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, 31 December, will reopen on Monday, 5 January, and will then close until Tues, 13 January. Staff will be onsite at the San Francisco Hilton from Monday 5 January through Sunday 11 January.

    The hotel reservation deadline for the LSA 2009 Annual Meeting has passed, but you may still be able to obtain the LSA room rate ($99/night single/double, $129/night triple/quad), subject to availability. Reservations web site

    The 2009 LSA Fellows will be recognized, and the Linguistics, Language and the Public Award and Leonard Bloomfield Book Award presented, at the January 9 Business Meeting of the LSA. Read more . . .

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Laurels to Linguists

John Rickford of Stanford has been named as the recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award of the University of California, Santa Cruz for 2009-10. Read more...

Walt Wolfram was named the NC Humanities Council Caldwell Humanities Laureate for 2008-09. Read feature stories on the award here and here.

Elly van Gelderen has been named a Regents' Professor, the highest faculty honor awarded at Arizona State University. Read more...

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