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Awards Committee
Background
Established in 2009. Subsumes the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award Committee.
Background
When nominations are presented for any of the Society's awards described below, the Committee evaluates them, and may or may not recommend a candidate for any or all of these awards to the Executive Committee, which must formally approve the recommendation(s).
Responsibilities
Nominations must be submitted to the Secretariat or to the Committee's chair by 1 July. The recommendation(s), accompanied by a citation, are forwarded to the Secretariat by 1 September. The Committee also prepares a 50 word citation to be read at the awards ceremony at the Annual Meeting and later published on the LSA website.
Membership (by invitation)
- The most recent Immediate Past President (Chair).
- A member of the Executive Committee in the third year of service.
- Two other members of the Society are appointed for staggered two-year terms.
Previous awardees should be considered as potential committee members.
Any member of the Committee who feels him/herself to be in a position of possible conflict of interest (such as sponsorship of work, principal consultant, colleague of contestant, etc.) should make this fact known to the other members of the Committee at the onset.
Committee Members
- David Lightfoot, Georgetown University, Chair (2012)
- Diana Archangeli, University of Arizona (2013)
- Scott Grimm, Stanford University (2012)
- Eric Potsdam, University of Florida (2012)
- C.-T. James Huang, Harvard University (2012)
