The Officers and Executive Committee members convened on Thursday, 3 January, in the Regency A Room of the Hyatt Regency San Francisco at 8:00 AM and continued meeting until 4:30 PM. Those attending were: Walt Wolfram, President; David Perlmutter, Past President; Frederick J. Newmeyer, Vice President/President-Elect; Sally McConnell-Ginet, Secretary-Treasurer; Cynthia Clopper, Bloch Fellow; Michael Krauss; Sarah G. Thomason; Donna Jo Napoli; Keren Rice; John Ohala; and Salikoko Mufwene. Mark Aronoff, Editor of Language; Brian Joseph, Editor-Elect of Language; and Marmo Soemarmo, Web Editor attended. Sharon Inkelas, the Chair of the Program Committee, was unable to participate. Dieter Stein, Director of the 2002 DGfS Summer Program; Dennis Preston, Director-designate of the 2003 Linguistic Institute; Ray Jackendoff, 2002 Vice President/President-Elect; and Past Presidents Joan Bresnan, D. Terence Langendoen, and Arnold Zwicky attended by invitation. Mary M. Niebuhr and Margaret W. Reynolds represented the LSA Secretariat.
A. Approved the call for nominations for a new Secretary-Treasurer and named the following members to serve on the Ad Hoc Search Committee: Elizabeth C. Traugott, Chair; Stephen Crain, Jane Grimshaw, Jay Jasanoff, and David Silva.
B. Appointed: (1) Fellowship Committee consisting of Frederick J. Newmeyer, Chair; Ellen Prince, Judith Aissen, and Tom Roeper to read and rank the applicants for support to attend the DGfS Summer Program; (2) Ed Battistella as Vice Chair of the Language in the School Curriculum Committee and liaison with the Undergraduate Programs Committee; (3) Carolyn Temple Adger as LSA delegate to American Speech, Hearing and Language Association; (4) John Baugh as LSA delegate to the Consortium of Social Science Associations; (5) Craig Melchert as Parliamentarian; and (6) Past President Arnold Zwicky, Ray Jackendoff, and Stephen Anderson to an ad hoc committee to review the Society's Constitution.
C. Accepted with thanks the 20th anniversary volume prepared by the Consortium of Social Science Associations. Although much of the material contributed by the Linguistic Society was included in the volume, Walt Wolfram, Sarah Thomason, and Keren Rice agreed to review all the LSA submissions and determine what other uses might be appropriate for them.
D. Noted with interest the slight increase in the total membership figures and thanked Walt Wolfram, Salikoko Mufwene, and Frederick Newmeyer for inviting their non-LSA member colleagues in the American Dialect Society, Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, and the National Association for the History of the Language Sciences to join the LSA.
E. Accepted with thanks reports submitted by the following: Committee on Computing, the Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation, the Committee on Language in the Schools, the Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics, the Undergraduate Program Advisory Committee, Archivist Louanna Furbee, and the Western Historical Manuscript Collections; Sally Thomason, LSA delegate to Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fred Eckman, on the Delegate Assembly at the Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages; and Arnold Zwicky, on the Permanent International Committee of Linguists. [Copies of these reports may be requested from the Secretariat.] The Executive Committee complimented the Program Committee on using technology and the internet to facilitate its fall 2001 meeting and suggested that in the future the Program Committee schedule its meeting on Sunday afternoon after the Annual Meeting rather than in September.
F. Received with thanks and unanimously approved the recommendation of the Committee on Honorary Members that honorary membership be awarded to Professor Alfred Bammesberger of Catholic University of Eichstÿtt, Professor Dai Quingxia of Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, and Professor Petr Sgall of Charles University of Prague. (The citations are included in the '2002 Annual Meeting' article, pp. 2-3.] In response to a request from the Nominating Committee, approved the appointment of the Past President to serve ex officio on the Nominating Committee, with a vote only to break a tie.
G. Received with thanks reports on the Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Social Science Associations, from the Coalition for National Science Funding, the National Museum on Language, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, the Joint National Committee on Languages, the National Humanities Alliance, and on the retreat of administrative officers of the American Council of Learned Societies. The Committee noted that the National Council of Teachers of English had invited the Society to endorse a statement on appropriate grammar instruction and asked that the Committee on Language in the School Curriculum review the document and draft a response for the Executive Committee's approval. The Executive Committee felt strongly that this response should be positive and collegial while noting differences when appropriate.
H. Asked that a review of the Bloomfield Award guidelines be considered by the Committee on Committee and Delegate Appointments at its May 2002 meeting.
I. Accepted the invitation from the National Humanities Alliance to co-sponsor Jefferson Day 2002.
J. After receiving a report from the Secretariat on possible meeting sites, the Committee selected the following: Los Angeles for 2005, Houston for 2006, New York for 2007, Chicago for 2008, and Portland for 2009. Reviewed the Society's policy on sign interpreting services at the Annual Meeting and amended the policy statement to read:
'Members who plan to attend the Annual Meeting and need to secure the services of appropriate sign interpreting service must notify the Secretariat and register for the meeting by 15 November 200_ . The request for sign interpreting should include a list of the LSA sessions and/or papers they plan to attend. The Secretariat will then, with the assistance of the Local Arrangements Committee and the Registry of Interpreters, secure the services of appropriate interpreters. We have budgeted up to $1,200 per LSA member requesting sign interpreting. In addition, upon request, the LSA will arrange for sign interpreting services at the business meeting and presidential address. Finally, signed presentations will be interpreted if requested by 15 November.'
K. Nominated Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell U) to stand for election for the position of Secretary-Treasurer for 2003 and Brian Joseph (OH SU) to stand for election for the position of Editor of Language for 2003.
L. Accepted with thanks the report of the Editor of Language, Mark Aronoff, and thanked the Editor for all of his hard work and success over the past seven years. He reported on plans for an Index for Language 1924-2000, expected to be ready for publication early this year. Print copies will be available for personal members at the cost of $10.00 each; libraries and institutions will be sent copies as a part of their membership. A press run of 3000 was approved. It is expected that this will be the last printed version of the index as it will be in an electronic format and updated annually on the LSA web site. The Committee was pleased to learn that after many years, Language was now to be a part of JSTOR's electronic archive. All issues of Language more than five years old are scheduled to be available on JSTOR by late 2002. Brian Joseph, Editor-designate, reported on the transition from Stony Brook to Columbus and noted that he has identified a proofreader as Kate Fenton was no longer able to serve in this capacity after 30 years. The Committee approved the appointment of Adele Goldberg, Associate Editor of Language.
M. Accepted with thanks the report from Marmo Soemarmo on the status of the Society's web page and unanimously approved a motion thanking him for his special service these past three years as the LSA's first Web Editor.
N. Accepted with thanks the detailed report prepared by the Director of the 2001 Linguistic Institute as well as the reports prepared by the Bloch Fellow, the Austerlitz Professor, the Language in the USA Fellow, and the LSA Summer Fellow. The report on plans for the 2003 Linguistic Institute was accepted with thanks. The Committee noted that the budget materials prepared by Director-designate Dennis Preston would be very helpful to other institutions planning Institutes. A letter from Alec Marantz and Jay Jasanoff on preparations for the 2005 Cambridge Institute was also received with thanks. Dieter Stein, the Director of the 2002 DGfS Summer Program in Dôsseldorf, outlined plans for the program, noted the revised list of faculty members, and reported that he had already received registrations. He noted that the three-week program would cost participants only about 450 Euros for tuition and living expenses. The Executive Committee thanked him for his report and urged him to highlight events planned for the summer and the low cost of participating in his report for the LSA Business Meeting.
[This report highlights the major actions taken by or reported in the Executive Committee. Full minutes of the meeting are available from the Secretariat.]