- August 1 is the abstract submission deadline for the LSA's 2009 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Program
2008
Background
Established in 1968.
Mandate
The LSA Constitution, Article III, Section 8 states:
The Program Committee shall have responsibility for the scholarly content of the Society's meetings and for recommending general policies on the form of the meetings to the Executive Committee for action.
Article V, Section 3 states:
Titles and descriptions of papers to be read before the Society must be submitted to the Program Committee beforehand and its disposition of such papers, including a possible limitation of the time to be devoted to them, shall be final.
Responsibilities
Members of the Program Committee are expected to read, evaluate, and rate all abstracts blind prior to the meeting; approve, add, change, and/or delete any statements in the abstract guidelines; set up the program; and provide a list of linguists to be invited to chair sessions. The Chair serves as a member ex-officio on the LSA Executive Committee and is expected to attend the Annual Meeting and Business Meeting at the end of his/her tenure. Committee members are not precluded from submitting abstracts.
Program Committee Reports
Wondering how the LSA selects papers for the Annual Meeting? See these reports
from the Program Committee for enlightenment on how abstracts are chosen, the new expert
review procedure, submission and acceptance rates overall and by subfield, and how the
new abstract submission deadline worked out.
[January 2007 pdf]
[January 2008 pdf]
Membership
The LSA Constitution, Article III, Section 8 states:
There shall be a Program Committee consisting of eight members appointed by the President with the approval of the Executive Committee, each to serve for a period of three years. Each year the President shall appoint one of the senior members as Chair.
Committee Members (all terms run through the end of the year in parentheses)
Laurence Horn, Co-chair, Yale University (2009)
Christopher Kennedy, Co-chair, University of Chicago (2008)
Sharon Inkelas, University of California, Berkeley (2010)
Jeff Lidz, University of Maryland (2009)
Eric Potsdam, University of Florida (2010)
Keren Rice, University of Toronto (2010)
Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto (2010)
Raffaella Zanuttini, Georgetown University (2008)
