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LSA Governance
Slate of Candidates for 2012
Call for Nominations: LSA Secretary Treasurer (2013-2018)
LSA Officers and Executive Committee - 2011
Language
Conflict of Interest Statement
Financial and Administrative Policies and Procedures
LSA Secretariat
LSA OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - 2012
OFFICERS
President: Keren Rice, University of Toronto
Vice President/President-Elect: Ellen M. Kaisse, University of Washington
Secretary-Treasurer: Paul Chapin, Santa Fe, New Mexico
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Sandra Chung, Past President, University of California, Santa Cruz
Rebekah Baglini, Bloch Fellow, University of Chicago (2013)
Susan Fischer, University of California, San Diego (2014)
Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley (2013)
Lisa Green, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2014)
Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania (2013)
Maria Polinsky, Harvard University (2012)
Eric Potsdam, University of Florida (2012)
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)
Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz (2012)
Ellen Kaisse, University of Washington (2012)
Alyson Reed, Executive Director, Linguistic Society of America (ex officio)
Keren Rice, University of Toronto (2012)
AUDIT COMMITTEE
Philip Rubin, Chair, Haskins Laboratories (2011)
Carol Neidle, Boston University (2011)
Christopher Potts, Stanford University (2011)
RESOLUTIONS-2010
Disbanded 2010: Read more details.
COMMITTEE AND DELEGATE APPOINTMENTS
Paul Chapin, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2012)
Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley (2012)
Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania (2012)
David Robinson, Director of Membership and Meetings, Linguistic Society of America (ex officio)
ADVISORS TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ARCHIVIST
Brian Joseph, Ohio State University (2010)
PARLIAMENTARIAN
Stephen Anderson, Yale University (2012)
PUBLICATIONS ADVISOR
Andrew Carnie, University of Arizona (2015)
OFFICE OF THE EDITOR OF LANGUAGE
Greg Carlson
Language, Journal of the LSA
502 Lattimore Hall
Department of Linguistics
The University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627-0096
Phone: (585) 273-1191
Fax: (585) 276-2715
e-mail: language@rochester.edu
Natsuko Tsujimura, Book Review Editor
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Indiana University
Goodbody Hall 248
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 855-1992
Fax: (812) 855-6402
e-mail: langrev@indiana.edu
Associate Editors
Adam Albright, MIT
R. Harald Baayen, University of Alberta
Jürgen Bohnemeyer, University at Buffalo
Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
Jen Hay, University of Canterbury
Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia
Jason Merchant, University of Chicago
Shana Poplack, University of Ottawa
Kie Ross Zuraw, UCLA
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]
FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
This manual describes the various policies and procedures governing the financial and administrative operations of the LSA. [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:
Alyson Reed, Executive Director
David Robinson, Director of Membership and Meetings
Rita Lewis, Executive Assistant
