Linguistic Society of America
About the LSA
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) was founded
in 1924 to advance the scientific study of language. LSA plays
a critical role in supporting and disseminating linguistic scholarship
both to professional linguists and to the general public.
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Laurels to Linguists
William Labov's 2009 Haskins Prize Lecture entitled "A Life of Learning: Six People I Have Learned From," has been published by the American Council of Learned Societies. He is known by many as "father of sociolinguistics". Read more...
Edward L. Keenan (University of California, Los Angeles), Ellen Friedman Prince (University of Pennsylvania), and Sarah Grey Thomason (University of Michigan) have been elected AAAS Fellows. Read more...
Joan Maling (National Science Foundation) will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Iceland on December 1, 2009 for her contributions
to Icelandic linguistics.
Alice Harris (University at Stony Brook) has been named the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell University) and Betty Tuller (Florida Atlantic University) have been elected
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read more...
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