- Abstracts for the 2011 Annual Meeting are due by July 31 at 11:59 p.m. US Eastern Time. Technical support for abstract submission will be unavailable after 5:00 p.m. US Eastern Time on Friday, July 30. Read more ...
- Cast your vote by August 17 on the LSA's Resolution on the Teachers' English Fluency Initiative in Arizona.
- The LSA has updated its procedures for proposing and enacting resolutions. Read more ....
- Nominations for the 2011 Class of LSA Fellows must be received at the Secretariat by Friday 30 July. Read more ...
LSA Governance
LSA Officers and Executive Committee - 2010
Language
Conflict of Interest Statement
Financial and Administrative Policies and Procedures
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LSA OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - 2010
See a photo of Executive Committee members and editors at their May 2010 meeting in Chicago.
OFFICERS
President: David Lightfoot, Georgetown University
Vice President/President-Elect: Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz
Secretary-Treasurer: Paul Chapin, Santa Fe, New Mexico
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Sarah Thomason, Past President, University of Michigan
Scott Grimm, Bloch Fellow, Stanford University (2011)
Alice Harris, University of Massachusetts (2010)
Maria Polinsky, Harvard University (2012)
Eric Potsdam, University of Florida (2012)
Christopher Potts, Stanford University (2011)
Catherine Ringen, University of Iowa (2010)
Rachel Walker, University of Southern California (2011)
See the LSA Constitution, Article IV, No. 1.
ResponsibilitiesElects new members and honorary members. Recommends the amount of dues to be paid by regular and student members. Approves requests for emeritus membership. Approves appointments to the various committees as recommended by the Committee on Committee and Delegate Appointments. Determines the time and place of the Annual Meeting of the Society. May call special meetings of the Society. Nominates the Secretary-Treasurer, the Editor, and six persons for vacant positions on the Nominating Committee. Names an investment counselor. Appoints the Associate Editors of Language, in consultation with the Editor.
MembershipThe Nominating Committee nominates two people for each vacant position on the Executive Committee. The President of the Society serves as the Chair.
SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
FINANCE
Paul Chapin, Chair, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2012)
Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz (2010)
David Lightfoot, Georgetown University (2010)
Alyson Reed, Executive Director, Linguistic Society of America (ex officio)
Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan (2010)
AUDIT COMMITTEE
D. Terence Langendoen, National Science Foundation, Chair (2010)
Catherine Ringen, University of Iowa (2010)
Philip Rubin, Haskins Laboratories (2010)
RESOLUTIONS-2010
(To be appointed), Chair (2010)
Maria Polinsky, Harvard University (2010)
Eric Potsdam, University of Florida (2010)
COMMITTEE AND DELEGATE APPOINTMENTS
Paul Chapin, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2012)
David Lightfoot, Georgetown University (2010)
Christopher Potts, Stanford University (2010)
Rachel Walker, University of Southern California (2010)
ADVISORS TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
SPECIAL COUNSEL
Paul Newman, Indiana University
ARCHIVIST
Brian Joseph, Ohio State University (2010)
PARLIAMENTARIAN
Stephen Anderson, Yale University (2010)
OFFICE OF THE EDITOR OF LANGUAGE
Greg Carlson
Language, Journal of the LSA
502 Lattimore Hall
Department of Linguistics
The University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627-0096
Phone: (585) 273-1191
Fax: (585) 276-2715
e-mail: language@rochester.edu
Natsuko Tsujimura, Book Review Editor
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Indiana University
Goodbody Hall 248
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 855-1992
Fax: (812) 855-6402
e-mail: langrev@indiana.edu
Associate Editors
R. Harald Baayen, University of Alberta (2011)
Mark Baker, Rutgers University (2009)
Jürgen Bohnemeyer, University at Buffalo (2011)
Jennifer Cole, University of Illinois, Urbana (2009)
Cleo Condoravi, Stanford University (2009)
Jen Hay, University of Canberbury (2011)
Jason Merchant, University of Chicago (2011)
D. Gary Miller, University of Florida (2009)
Joe Pater, University of Massachusetts (2009)
Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto (2009)
OFFICE OF EDITOR OF eLANGUAGE
Dieter Stein, Editor-in-Chief
stein@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de
Co-Journals
Constructions
Contact and submissions:
constructions@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de
Editors:
Alexander Bergs, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Annette Rosenbach, University of Paderborn, Germany
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LILT)
Contact and submissions:
azaenen@earthlink.net
Editor:
Annie Zaenen, Stanford, USA
Journal of Mesoamerican Languages and Linguistics
Contact and submissions:
jmll_editor@elanguage.net
Editor:
David Mora-Marin, UNC Chapel Hill, USA
Semantics and Pragmatics
Contact and submissions:
editors@semprag.org
Editors:
David Beaver, University of Texas Austin, United States
Kai von Fintel, MIT, United States
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT
It is the intention of the LSA that the following Conflict of Interest policy be signed annually by the editors of Language and eLanguage, and by the members of the Executive Committee at their Spring meeting. [pdf]
FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
This manual describes the various policies and procedures governing the financial and administrative operations of the LSA. [pdf]
LSA SECRETARIAT
The Secretariat is the administrative center for the Society and is open 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday. We are located in the Archibald A. Hill Suite, 1325 18th St., NW, Suite 211, Washington, DC 20036. The federal holiday schedule for the Washington, DC metropolitan area is observed.
Staff:
Alyson Reed, Executive Director
David Robinson, Director of Membership and Meetings
Rita Lewis, Executive Assistant
