- The Executive Committee of the LSA will be holding its Spring meeting on 9-10 May, 2008, in Washington, DC. For further information, contact Katha Kissman.
- 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 Governance
LSA Officers and Executive Committee - 2008
Language
Conflict of Interest Statement
LSA Secretariat
LSA OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - 2008
OFFICERS
President: Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania, Emerita
Vice President/President-Elect: Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan
Secretary-Treasurer: Paul Chapin, Santa Fe, New Mexico
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Stephen Anderson, Past President, Yale University (2010)
Jennifer Cole, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2009)
Michael Frank, Bloch Fellow, MIT (2009)
Alice Harris, Stony Brook University (2010)
Monica Macaulay, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008)
Johanna Nichols, University of California-Berkeley (2008)
Catherine Ringen, University of Iowa (2010)
Thomas Wasow, Stanford University (2009)
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)
Stephen Anderson, Yale University (2008)
Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania, Emerita (2008)
Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan (2008)
AUDIT COMMITTEE
Donna Christian, Chair, Center for Applied Linguistics (2009)
Frederick J. Newmeyer, Chair, University of Washington (2008)
Jennifer Cole, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2009)
RESOLUTIONS-2008
Jennifer Cole, University of Illinois (2008)
Jerrold Sadock, Chair, University of Chicago (2008)
Tom Wasow, Stanford University (2008)
COMMITTEE AND DELEGATE APPOINTMENTS
Paul Chapin, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2012)
Jennifer Cole, University of Illinois (2008)
Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania, Emerita (2008)
Tom Wasow, Stanford University (2008)
ADVISORS TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ARCHIVIST
Louanna Furbee, University of Missouri, Columbia (2007)
PARLIAMENTARIAN
Richard Larson, University of Stony Brook (2008)
OFFICE OF THE EDITOR OF LANGUAGE
Brian Joseph, Editor
Language, Journal of the LSA
202 Mount Hall
Ohio State University
1050 Carmack Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 688-8523
Fax: (614) 292-0183
e-mail: language@ling.ohio-state.edu
Gregory Stump, Book Review Editor
Department of English
University of Kentucky
1215 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
Phone: (859) 257-1184
Fax: (859) 323-1072
e-mail: gstump@pop.uky.edu
Associate Editors
Farrell Ackerman, University of California, San Diego (2008)
Cleo Condoravdi, Xerox-PARC (2009)
Edward Gibson, MIT (2009)
Jennifer Cole, University of Illinois, Urbana (2008)
William Davies, University of Iowa (2007)
Nicholas Evans, University of Melbourne (2008)
Laura Michaelis, University of Colorado, Boulder (2008)
D. Gary Miller, University of Florida (2009)
Joseph 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]
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:
Katha Kissman, Interim Executive Director, kkissman@lsadc.org
David Robinson, Director of Membership and Meetings, drobinson@lsadc.org
Rita Lewis, Executive Assistant, rlewis@lsadc.org
