- The LSA's 2009 Annual Meeting has been moved to San Francisco due to an ongoing labor dispute affecting the Portland Hilton. The host hotel will be the San Francisco Hilton. The LSA will enjoy the same excellent room rate--$99/night single or double, $129/night triple or quad--that we were to have had in Portland. More information
- Nominations for the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award are due 1 June, 2008.
- Nominations for the LSA's "Linguistics, Language and the Public" Award will be accepted until 1 June, 2008.
LSA Fellows
Members of the Society who have made distinguished contributions to the discipline may be recognized as Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America. A member of the Society who has served as an Officer of the Society (i.e., President, Secretary-Treasurer, or Editor of Language) shall be recognized as a Fellow upon conclusion of service in that office. The initial set of Fellows shall include all current members of the Society who have held any of these offices.
Any personal member of the Society shall be eligible for election as a Fellow. Nominations may be made by any personal member in good standing and should be forwarded to the LSA Secretariat by 1 June 2008. The nomination form should be accompanied by a letter of nomination no more than two pages in length and the curriculum vitae of the nominee, limited to four pages. The Secretariat will confirm that the nominee is a member in good standing before preparing the ballot. To download the nomination form as a pdf file, click here.
The at-large members of the Executive Committee will be charged to elect in secret ballot those to be recognized as Fellows. After electing the initial set of Fellows, no more than 10 members will be elected as Fellows each year (not including retired Officers). Further no more than 5% of the total eligible members shall be recognized as Fellows at any time. If Fellows are more than 5% of the total personal membership, no new Fellows will be elected that year.
No member of the Executive Committee will be eligible for election as a Fellow while serving in that office. Members who are Fellows may be nominated to serve as Officers or on the Executive Committee.
Fellows will be listed on the website and noted as such in the Membership Directory.
