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Now online! The Preliminary Program for the 2010 Annual Meeting, meeting registration and hotel room reservations. Request sign language interpretation by November 20 and child care assistance by December 1.

Course proposals are being solicited for the 2011 Linguistic Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Read more ...

The Society notes with regret the passing of former LSA President (1982) Dell Hymes, who died peacefully on Friday, November 13 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Read more ...

The LSA announces the recipients of its 2010 awards and honors. Read more ...

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The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) was founded in 1924 to advance the scientific study of language. LSA plays a critical role in supporting and disseminating linguistic scholarship both to professional linguists and to the general public. Read more...

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Oxford Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend
Oxford University Press Blog, 16 November 2009
Noted with regret: Former LSA President (1982) Dell Hymes dies November 13, 2009. Read more ...
LSA announces 2010 awards and honors. Read more ...
LSA announces results of recent ballots for officers, Executive Committee members, and constitutional amendments. Read more ...
F.B.I. Is Slow to Translate Intelligence, Report Says
New York Times, October 26, 2009
Recent Linguistics PhDs may apply for the ACLS New Faculty Fellows Program. Potential applicants must have received the degree from one of the 60 U.S. Members of the Association of American Universities, and should contact their advisor or department chair for further information.
Who's the better translator: Machines or humans?
CNN, October 7, 2009

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Laurels to Linguists

Joan Maling (National Science Foundation) will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Iceland on December 1, 2009 for her contributions to Icelandic linguistics.

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...

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...

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