• Eastern Cherokees look to kids for language revitalization
  Cherokee Phoenix, July 1, 2009
• Young People Embracing their Indigenous languages
  New America Media, June 24, 2009
• Linguistics controversy ends with firm gig for Lake of Stew
  Yahoo! News Canada, June 23, 2009
• The LSA is pleased to announce the appointment of Natsuko Tsujimura (Indiana University) as Book Review Editor of Language. Read more ....
• The LSA's new Ethics Statement is now available for viewing on the LSA website. Read more ...
• LSA members weigh in on "millionth word" news item. CNN.com, June 10, 2009
• Linguists debate their role in saving the world's endangered tongues
  The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 1, 2009

Alice Harris (University at Stony Brook) has been named the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Read more ...

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...

In the Spring quarter, Elizabeth Traugott will be a Visiting Professor in the Departments of English and Linguistics, Stockholm University, where she will teach a course on constructionalization.

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.