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- 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 Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage: COSWL's Role
COSWL has consistently worked with the Executive Committee to improve the "LSA Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage." Check our LSA Guidelines page for the full text.
- In 1993 a revised list of recommendations to LSA authors and presenters on nonsexist language use proposed by COSWL was accepted by the Executive Committee.
- In 1995 the Executive Committee voted to revise the guidelines and to urge the contributors to Language to follow these guidelines in their submissions.
- In 1996, at the LSA Annual Meeting the necessity, status, and function of these guidelines was reevaluated in a symposium organized by Victoria Bergvall, Colleen Brice, and Monica Macaulay: "Addressing Bias in Linguistic Example Sentences: Are Guidelines Necessary?"
