- 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 Presidents
2008 Ellen Prince
2007 Stephen R. Anderson
2006 Sally McConnell-Ginet
2005 Mark Aronoff
2004 Joan Bybee
2003 Ray Jackendoff
2002 Frederick J. Newmeyer
2001 Walt Wolfram
2000 David Perlmutter
1999 Joan Bresnan
1998 D. Terence Langendoen
1997 Janet D. Fodor
1996 James D. McCawley (1938-1999)
1995 Emmon Bach
1994 Kenneth L. Hale (1934-2001)
1993 Lila R. Gleitman
1992 Arnold M. Zwicky
1991 Charles J. Fillmore
1990 Robert P. Austerlitz (1923-1994)
1989 William O. Bright (1928-2006)
1988 Calvert Watkins
1987 Elizabeth C. Traugott
1986 Barbara H. Partee
1985 Victoria A. Fromkin (1923-2000)
1984 Henry Kahane (1902-1992)
1983 Arthur S. Abramson
1982 Dell H. Hymes
1981 Fred W. Householder (1913-1994)
1980 Ilse Lehiste
1979 William Labov
1978 Peter Ladefoged (1925-2006)
1977 Joseph H. Greenberg (1915-2001)
1976 Rulon S. Wells
1975 Thomas A. Sebeok (1920-2001)
1974 Morris Halle
1973 Winfred P. Lehmann (1916-2007)
1972 Dwight L. Bolinger (1907-1992)
1971 Eric P. Hamp
1970 Charles A. Ferguson(1921-1998)
1969 Archibald A. Hill (1902-1992)
1968 Eugene A. Nida
1967 William G. Moulton (1907-2000)
1966 J Milton Cowan (1907-1993)
1965 Yakov Malkiel (1914-1998)
1964 Charles Hockett (1916-2000)
1963 Mary R. Haas (1910-1996)
1962 Albert H. Marckwardt (1903-1975)
1961 Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2000)
1960 George L. Trager (1906-1992)
1959 Harry Hoijer (1904-1976)
1958 Henry Hoenigswald (1915-2003)
1957 W. Freeman Twaddell (1906-1982)
1956 Roman Jakobson (1896-1982)
1955 Zellig Harris (1909-1992)
1954 Charles F. Voegelin (1906-1986)
1953 Bernard Bloch (1907-1965)
1952 George S. Lane (1902-1981)
1951 Joshua Whatmough (1897-1964)
1950 Einar Haugen (1906-1994)
1949 Murray B. Emeneau (1904-2005)
1948 Hayward Keniston (1883-1970)
1947 Albrecht Goetze (1897-1971)
1946 E. Adelaide Hahn (1893-1967)
1945 Y. R. Chao (1892-1982)
1944 Kemp Malone (1889-1971)
1943 Fred N. Robinson (1871-1966)
1942 Hans Kurath (1891-1992)
1941 Roland G. Kent (1877-1952)
1940 A. L. Kroeber (1876-1960)
1939 Charles C. Fries (1887-1967)
1938 Louis H. Gray (1875-1955)
1937 Carl D. Buck (1866-1955)
1936 George T. Flom (1871-1960)
1935 Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949)
1934 Franklin Edgerton (1885-1963)
1933 Edward Sapir (1884-1939)
1932 George Melville Bolling (1871-1963)
1931 Edgar Howard Sturtevant (1875-1952)
1930 Eduard Prokosch (1876-1938)
1929 Charles H. Grandgent(1862-1939)
1928 Franz Boas (1858-1942)
1927 Carl D. Buck (1866-1955)
1926 Maurice Bloomfield (1855-1928)
1925 Hermann Collitz (1855-1935)
