Annual dues for U.S. personal memberships for 2000 are $65.00; U.S. student dues are $25.00 per year, with proof of status; U.S. library memberships are $120.00; add $10.00 postage surcharge for non-U.S. addresses; $13.00 of dues goes to the publication of the LSA Bulletin. New memberships and renewals are entered on a calendar year basis only. Postmaster: Send address changes to: Linguistic Society of America, 1325 18th Street, NW, Suite 211, Washington, DC 20036-6501.

2000 Annual Report

A. Membership

As of December 2000, the membership of the Linguistic Society totalled 5817 compared to 5999 active members in December 1999, 6231 in 1998, 6393 in 1997, and 6212 in 1996. The active members include by category: Libraries and Institutions (1858), Honorary (36), Life (311), Regular (2787), Student (782), and Emeritus (43). In addition, 120 institutions throughout the world were receiving the LSA Bulletin and/or Language on an exchange basis.

B. Deaths

We are sorry to report the deaths of the following linguists: Mohammed Ali-Jazayery, Fernando Escalante, Suzanne Fleischman, Margaret Hoffman, Donald Larson, Al Liberman, Jean Malmstrom, Edgar O. Polome, Paul L-M Serruys, and William Stokoe; Life Members H. S. Biligiri, Frederic G. Cassidy, and R. Whitney Tucker; Life Members/Past Presidents Victoria A. Fromkin, Charles Hockett, William Moulton, and Kenneth Pike; Honorary Members Michel Lejeune and Robert Robbins.

C. Elections

In 2000, the Nominating Committee (Mark Baker, chair) submitted the following slate: Vice President/President-Elect (2001) Frederick J. Newmeyer (U WA); members of the Executive Committee: Greg Carlson (U Rochester), Michael Krauss (U Alaska), Sarah G. Thomason (U MI), and Donca Steriade (UC-Los Angeles). Over 700 ballots was received in the Secretariat by 1 December, and the following members were elected: Vice President/President-Elect: Frederick J. Newmeyer; Executive Committee: Michael Krauss and Sarah G. Thomason.

In addition, the Executive Committee nominated: Editor (2001): Mark Aronoff (SUNY-Stony Brook) and Secretary-Treasurer (2001): Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell U). Both were elected to office.

D. Audit Report

Gold, Leins, Secker, and McMaster completed its review of the Society's funds through the end of the fiscal year, 30 September 2000. A statement of support, revenues and expenses, and changes in fund balances for the fiscal year with comparative totals for 1996-99 may be found on p. 18.

2001 Annual Meeting

The 75th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC, 4-7 January 2001. The American Dialect Society, American Name Society, North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, and the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics met in conjunction with the LSA. There were 850 participants.

The Annual Business Meeting was held 5 January and attended by approximately 75 members. The Secretary-Treasurer reported highlights of actions taken by the Executive Committee on 4 January. At the recommendation of the Executive Committee, the members elected Hwang-cherng Gong (Acad Sinica), Jean Kellens (C de France, Paris), and Ki-Moon Lee (Seoul Natl U) for honorary membership. The citations presented read:

Professor Hwang-cherng Gong, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Professor Hwang-cherng Gong (1934- ), who received his PhD from the University of Munich in 1974, is a Senior Research Fellow of Academia Sinica. He is undoubtedly among the most highly respected scholars in the areas of Archaic Chinese and Sino-Tibetan linguistics, and in the study of Tangut, a deceased minority language of Northern Sung Dynasty which holds the key to several long-standing issues in the study of Proto-Chinese and Proto-Sino-Tibetan. In each of these areas of research, he holds the position of a world-class leader. His reconstruction of the phonological system of Archaic Chinese is, by common consent, the most authoritative to date, defining another 'watershed' since the works of Bernard Carlgren and Fang-Kuei Li. His Proto-Tangut phonology is now commonly adopted by scholars in China, Japan, Russia, and the United States. On the basis of his research on Archaic Chinese and Proto-Tangut phonology, and comparative study of these with classical Tibetan texts, Gong has now completed a large portion of his reconstruction of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, including the system of vowels, rhymes, and certain prefixes. He is currently in the process of completing the reconstruction of initials (consonants and syllable onsets) of Proto-Sino-Tibetan. The successful completion of this will be the most important breakthrough in the hundred-year history of the field. This part is the 'last chapter' to be added to the enterprise of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, and international scholars of the field are holding their breath in anticipation of Gong's results, as they will be of utmost importance for scholars in the field in the decades to come. Professor Gong has won numerous national awards from the National Science Council of the Republic of China and is held in the highest regard by those in his areas of specialization and/or those who have associated with him. Although his research has not brought him to the US often, in 1996-97 he was a Visiting Professor at UC-Berkeley. In the summer of 1997, he was invited to teach a course on Proto-Chinese and Proto-Sino-Tibetan at the LSA Linguistic Institute held at Cornell University.

Professor Jean Kellens, Collège de France, Paris. Professor Jean Kellens is probably the greatest living authority on Avestan, our most archaic Iranian language. Beginning his Iranian studies in 1963 at the University of Liège in his native Belgium, Kellens subsequently moved to Erlangen, Germany, to study with the great Indo-Iranianist Karl Hoffmann. Returning to Liège, he became a full professor there in 1986. In 1993 he moved to Paris to occupy a chair at the Collège de France. The past four decades have witnessed a revolution in Avestan studies. Philological reevaluation of the Avestan manuscripts, a project originally spearheaded by Hoffmann, has led to a new understanding of the sounds and forms of the language. No name is more closely associated with the 'new look' of Avestan, and especially of its conservative Gathic dialect, than that of Jean Kellens. His 1974 dissertation-based book, Les noms-racines de l'Avesta, dealt exhaustively with a single grammatical class and accurately described it for the first time. A major contribution in itself, it was dwarfed ten years later by Le verbe avestique, Kellens's monumental compendium and analysis of every single Avestan verb form in the light of the new philology. No mere database of the usual type, Le verbe avestique is a basic resource--a work which, even if he had written nothing more, would have assured Kellens a place among the immortals of Iranian and Indo-Iranian studies. But his productivity continued. Les textes vieil-avestiques, the three-volume edition and translation of the Gathic Avestan corpus that Kellens brought out in collaboration with Eric Pirart in 1988-91, is the basis for all modern work on these texts. By the end of the 1990s, Kellens's publication list included over 140 items--almost all of them testifying to his role in restoring Avestan and ancient Iranian to their rightful place in Indo-Iranian and Indo-European comparative linguistics.

Professor Ki-Moon Lee, Seoul National University, Korea. Professor Ki-Moon Lee is widely recognized as the world's foremost authority on the history of the Korean language. Educated at Seoul National University, he is now Professor Emeritus of Korean language and linguistics at that university. He has also held scholarly and teaching positions at Harvard, the University of Washington, Columbia, the University of Tokyo, and the LSA Summer Institute. He has served as President of the Linguistic Society of Korea, the Society of Korean Language and Literature, the Society of Korean Linguistics, and the Altaic Society of Korea. Among his numerous professional awards and honors, he is a recipient of the Korean National Cultural Prize for Most Outstanding Publication, the Samil Cultural Prize for Most Outstanding Publication, the Crown Medal for Cultural Achievement, the Korean National Academy of Sciences Award, and the Magnolia Medal of the Nation. In 1998 he was awarded the Fukuoka Grand Prize in Japan, the only linguist, as well as the only Korean, ever to receive that honor. Since 1982 he has been a member of the Korean National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Lee is the author of 21 books and around 150 articles, mostly in Korean, but also in English, Japanese, French, and German. However, it is upon quality rather than quantity that his world-wide reputation rests. He has published seminal works on virtually every aspect of Korean historical linguistics, and these works form the basis of almost all serious research in the field today. Lee's comparative research on Alta, Manta, and Mongolian; his explanation of the nature of Old Korean and its relationship to Japanese; his periodization of the Korean language; and his interpretations of Middle Korean materials are all considered authoritative. He is the first scholar to apply convincingly the method of internal reconstruction to Middle Korean, supplemented by comparative data from the modern dialects. Noted for his spare and lucid prose style, Lee has also written on the social and historical circumstances surrounding the modern 'enlightenment' period and its language scholars; he has clarified the background of the fifteenth-century invention of the Korean alphabet. Ki-Moon Lee is a scholar of great range and depth and one of Korea's greatest and most influential scholars, in any field.

Other reports were presented by the chair of the Program Committee, the director of the 2001 Linguistic Institute, and the Editor of Language.

David Perlmutter, LSA President, presented the 3rd bienniel Linguistics, Language, and the Public Interest Award to Geoffrey Nunberg (XEROX Parc) for his broadcasts on language for the radio program "Fresh Air" on National Public Radio. The award recognizes work that effectively increases public awareness and understanding of linguistics and language. The citation presented read:

Geoffrey Nunberg's broadcasts for the NPR program "Fresh Air" have made linguistics come alive for millions of radio listeners. With just the right blend of technical sophistication, timeliness, and humor, he gives our discipline a graceful and powerful public voice.

Paul Chapin (NSF) received the first Victoria A. Fromkin Prize for Distinguished Service. The prize was established in 2000 to recognize extraordinary service to the Society and the discipline. The citation presented read:

The Linguistic Society of America is proud to award the Victoria A. Fromkin Prize for Public Service to Dr. Paul Chapin for over 25 years of distinguished public service for the field of linguistics. Paul received his PhD in linguistics in 1967 and was a member of the faculty at the University of California-San Diego until 1975. From 1975 until October 1999, Paul served as Program Director for Linguistics at the National Science Foundation and is currently Senior Program Officer for Scientific Initiatives at NSF. Paul is the very paragon of public service in our field, having sacrificed what would have undoubtedly been an outstanding career in university teaching and research to work at NSF. He has dedicated most of his professional life to the support of his colleagues in their linguistics research and has encouraged the field to grow and develop along the lines that its practitioners have wanted, not in accordance with his own ideas of what counts as 'good' linguistic research. As a result, the field has developed in ways that could not have been anticipated when he took the Linguistics Program Director position at NSF in 1975.

The Resolutions Committee, (Jeff Connor-Linton, chair, Donna Jo Napoli and John Ohala) presented the following resolutions which were unanimously approved:

The Resolutions Committee presented the following resolution, drafted and forwarded by the Executive Committee:

The Linguistic Society of America affirms that signed languages used by deaf communities are full-fledged languages with all the structural characteristics and range of expression of spoken languages. They have rule-governed systems of articulation, word-formation, sentence structure, and meaning, which have been the subject of scholarly study since the pioneering work of Dr. William Stokoe (1919-2000) over 40 years ago. These languages are not merely a set of informal gestures, nor are they a signed version of any particular spoken language. American Sign Language, the language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Canada, goes back almost two hundred years and is historically and structurally unrelated to English. It is also the vehicle of a distinguished deaf culture and has a tradition of visual literature.

The LSA affirms for signed languages such as ASL all the rights and privileges attendant to any spoken languages, including the right to satisfy a student's academic foreign language requirement, just as Spanish, Chinese, Navajo, or any other spoken language can. Because communication through language is a basic human need and right, the LSA supports laws that ensure interpreters for deaf people in their interactions with hearing people who do not sign. We also encourage American educational institutions at all levels to create opportunities for learning ASL so that those in regular contact with members of the deaf community can study and learn ASL, and to foster the study of ASL by supporting research on it and by developing educational degree programs for teachers of ASL, for interpreters of ASL, and for those interested in ASL Studies.

After discussion and amendment, members requested the resolution be submitted to the membership. [See insert.] Representatives from the NSF, NIMH, and the Endangered Language Fund gave brief reports. The new Officers and Executive Committee members were recogized, and the session was adjourned.

Executive Committee Report

The Officers and Executive Committee met in the Washington Board Room of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, DC, beginning at 8:00 AM on Thursday, 4 January 2001. Those in attendance included David Perlmutter, President; Walt Wolfram,Vice President/President-Elect; Joan Bresnan, Past President; Sally McConnell-Ginet, Secretary-Treasurer; Gunnar Hansson, Bloch Fellow; Mark Aronoff, Editor of Language; Michael Kenstowicz, chair of the Program Committee; Marmo Soemarmo, Web Editor; John Baugh; Sandra Chung; Salikoko Mufwene; Donna Jo Napoli; John Ohala; and Keren Rice. Dennis Preston, Director designate of the 2003 Linguistic Institute; Ellen Prince; and Donna Christian, President of the Center for Applied Linguistics, were present by invitation. The Secretariat was represented by Margaret Reynolds, Elizabeth Hogan, and Mary Niebuhr.

Received reports from the chairs of committees, delegates/liaisons, and the Archivist for 2000. The Committee on Honorary Members recommended the election of Professor Hwang-cherng Gong of the Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Professor Jean Kellens of the Collège de France, Paris; and Professor Ki-Moon Lee of Seoul National University for honorary membership in the Society. These recommendations were accepted with thanks. [The citations are included in the 2001 Annual Meeting Report]
Accepted with appreciation reports of sister organizations including the Coalition on the Academic Workforce, the Decade of Behavior, the National Museum of Language, the Joint National Committee on Languages, and the Coalition for National Science Funding. In addition, the committee received a report on the Building Blocks Workshop sponsored this fall by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) and accepted an invitation from NINCH to officially join this effort.
Learned that a new FAQ on sign language was nearly ready for press and would be available in the winter.
Endorsed 'Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing' in response to a request by the Association of Research Libraries.
Reviewed five proposals from various commercial and university presses to collaborate on the publication of Language. Although final negotiations are not complete, the committee was pleased that all the proposals included provision for making Language available on-line. [See p. 19.]
Accepted with thanks reports from the directors of the 2001 and 2003 Linguistic Institutes and the Director of the 2002 Special Summer Program to be hosted by the DGfS at the University of Duesseldorf. Reserved the summer of 2005 for an Institute to be cosponsored by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Received a report from the chair of the Program Committee and commended the committee on the addition of plenary lectures to the program for this meeting. The four scholars--Stephen Crain, Jane Grimshaw, Ray Jackendoff, and Donca Steriade--who are presenting the lectures this year were warmly thanked for their important contribution to the program. The Executive Committee looks forward to receiving a report on the evaluations which all who attended the 2001 meeting were invited to complete.
Received with great thanks the report and recommendation of the Ad Hoc Search Committee for a new Editor of Language. Abigail Cohn, Patrick Farrell, Susan Steele, Walt Wolfram, and Arnold Zwicky were thanked for their service, and the ad hoc committee was dismissed.
The committee nominated Sally McConnell-Ginet of Cornell University to stand for election as Secretary-Treasurer in 2002 and Brian Joseph of Ohio State University to stand for election as Editor in 2002.

[This report highlights the major actions taken by or reported in the Executive Committee. Full minutes of the meeting are available from the Secretariat.]

Decade of Behavior
(2001 - 2010)

The Decade of Behavior initiative announces FundSource, the first searchable website devoted exclusively to funding opportunities across the gamut of behavioral and social sciences. FundSource offers a variety of search formats; it can deliver either a description and contact information for funding sources, or it can perform a direct, full-text search of funding source web pages. Searches can be tailored by organization name, discipline, or topic and can be done separately for foundations, federal agencies, and international sources. At present, FundSource concentrates on sources of funding for research activities. As it expands, it will also include tips on writing grants as well as links to information on fellowships, sabbatical support, and conference funding.

In the spirit of the Decade of Behavior initiative, FundSource is an important element in fostering increased cooperation among the behavioral and social science disciplines. The website was made possible thanks to the generous support of the National Science Foundation and the American Psychological Association. FundSource can be accessed via the Decade of Behavior homepage at: http://www.decadeofbehavior.org.

Annual Committee Reports--2000

Endangered Languages and Their Preservation

In addition to the annual committee meeting at the LSA, during the fall semester, the committee had two email meetings: one meeting late in August, and another late in October.

August Email Meeting

We proposed a revision to CELP's mission statement. The revised statement adds a clause recommending that academic institutions be encouraged to hire faculty with commitments to endangered language research, promotion.
Committee member Jonathan Bobaljik wrote a letter to UNESCO requesting information about the status of grants for endangered language research that were awarded some time ago by UNESCO, but have still not been received by awardees. This letter was sent in CELP's name to UNESCO as well as to the heads of a number of our sister organizations. We have since received responses to this letter from Prof. Steven Wurm and from Mr. Maurice Aymard, Secretary-General of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (CIPSH). Our understanding, based on this correspondence, is that UNESCO's program for research on endangered languages is defunct, with no signs of resuscitation in the near future.
We voted not to use our funds to help found a new journal, Himalayan Linguistics.
We decided to devote a substantial portion of the funds from our budget to a small awards ($100-$200) program, the purpose of which will be to help needy applicants with the costs of attending professional conferences or workshops at which they will give papers. Priority is to be given to those giving papers that meet the following criteria (with no special ranking): (1) native speakers or community members engaged in linguistic work and/or language maintenance or planning; (2) grad students working on an endangered language; (3) scholars not based in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, or New Zealand working on an endangered language and who have restricted access to funds. Examples of possible uses for CELP awards: (1) help with airfare to relevant conferences, (2) registration for the annual LSA meeting, (3) to enhance a scholarship for a grad student to the LSA Summer Institute, help with material or transportation costs associated with a grad student's fieldwork.
We asked the LSA to provide CELP with its own line on the yearly dues form, in the place where members are invited to contribute to our committees and various funds.

October Email Meeting

The main business was to consider a request from the Endangered Language Fund to co-staff a booth at the upcoming LSA annual meeting in Washington, DC. The committee decided that it would not be appropriate at this time to enter into such a partnership. Jonathan Bobaljik has created a web resource for funding opportunities, as part of the Endangered Languages Homepage on Linguist.

Workshop on Web-Based Language Documentation and Description

The workshop was hosted by Exploration 2000 and organized by Steven Bird and Gary Simons at the University of Pennsylvania, 12-15 December 2000. At the invitation of the organizers, the CELP chair participated on two panels, (1) Legal, Ethical, and Policy Issues Concerning the Recording and Publication of Primary Language Materials and (2) Community Infrastructure. (Megan J. Crowhurst)

Language in the School Curriculum

Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics

The committee met at the January 2000 LSA Annual Meeting and discussed a number of issues via email during the year. Items discussed during the year included:

Status of Women in Linguistics

Regularly Scheduled Meetings. During 2000, COSWL held five email meetings: 1/24-2/3; 3/20-4/3; 5/31-6/16; 8/19-9/17; 11/27-12/6. In addition to participating in these formal meetings, COSWL members were also in frequent electronic contact regarding specific projects.

2000 LSA Meeting (Chicago). COSWL sponsored two events: a breakfast meeting and a symposium composed of women who are major figures in modern linguistics. The speakers were Jean Berko-Gleason, Penny Eckert, Janet Dean Fodor, and Ilse Lehiste. Our fifth invited speaker, Victoria Fromkin, was unable to attend due to illness. The symposium was organized to commemorate the 25th anniversary of COSWL and was followed by a celebratory gala. COSWL would like to thank Marianna Di Paolo, Jennifer Hay, and Jeri Jaeger for organizing the symposium, and Susan Fischer and Scott Kiesling for planning the gala.

2001 LSA Meeting (Washington, DC). The Program Committee approved a proposal for a symposium entitled 'The Breadth and Diversity of Language and Gender Research'. The event was organized by Scott Kiesling, Marianna Di Paolo, Norma Mendoza-Denton, and Carlota Smith to highlight recent work in language and gender and to increase the visibility of such research at the LSA.

Mission Statement Change. The Executive Committee approved COSWL's proposed change to its mission statement. The statement was changed from: 'To monitor the status of women in linguistics, with particular focus on issues of discrimination, harassment, and advancement' to 'To monitor and advance the status of women in linguistics.'

Institutional Survey. The committee hired Mary Rose to bring together the results of the 1997 surveys in a common format and to report on the findings.

Role of Undergraduate Linguistics Courses. Miriam Meyerhoff and Carlota Smith began a project to look at the role of language and gender courses, which may often be used as high volume undergraduate courses and fall disproportionately on the shoulders of women and junior faculty.

Syllabus Collection. Scott Kiesling coordinated an update of the Language and gender syllabi, which was originally gathered in 1993. A new webpage containing the updated information is under preparation. Those wishing to contribute a syllabus to this collection should contact the new coordinator, Robin Queen, at: rqueen@umich.edu.

COSWL Website. Maintained by Monica Macaulay and accessed from the LSA home page, the website contains COSWL project information, a link to the current language and gender syllabus collection, language and gender conference announcements, and other information.

Brochure. Mary Rose updated and produced the COSWL brochure which will be distributed at the LSA Annual Meeting.

2001 LSA Linguistic Institute. COSWL will sponsor a series of workshops addressing the skills needed to survive and succeed in the linguistics profession. Each of six workshops, held once a week for the duration of the Institute, will focus on a different topic, including ways of overcoming common obstacles. Norma Mendoza-Denton is coordinating the series with help from Maryam Bakht-Rofheart, Jennifer Hay, Ken Lacy, Monica Macaulay, and Mary Rose.

COSWL wishes to solicit financial contributions from members who would like to help sponsor these workshops, both in terms of supporting the student onsite coordinators, Maryam Bakht-Rofheart and Ken Lacy, and covering food, xeroxing, and other administrative costs. Donors will be acknowledged in our workshop materials and in the LSA Bulletin. Please send contributions earmarked for the COSWL Summer Institute Workshop Fund to the LSA Secretariat.

We are grateful for the contributions of those who are rotating off the committee after 2000: Jennifer Hay, Christine Kamprath, and Scott Kiesling. We are pleased that Stefanie Jannedy, Robin Queen, and Maryam Bakht-Rofheart have agreed to serve on the committee beginning in January 2001. Co-chairs will be Jeri Jaeger and Norma Mendoza-Denton. (Jennifer Hay/Jeri Jaeger)

Bulletin Board

Congratulations

Publisher Donations

The Linguistic Society deeply appreciates the generosity of the 10 publishers who donated the proceeds from the sale of their display copies to the LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowship Fund. Annual Meeting Joint Book Exhibit participants were: Academic Press, Duke University Press, Gallaudet University Press, Mayfield Publishing Co., Ohio State University Department of Linguistics, Routledge, Spoken Language Services, University of British Columbia Department of Linguistics, University Press of America, and Yale University Press.

Summer Institutes

Grants

Civilian Research and Development Foundation

CRDF has announced a new competition for its Cooperative Grants Program. This program allows joint teams of U.S. and former Soviet Union (FSU) scientists and engineers to apply for one- to two-year support for cooperation in any area of civilian research and development in the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, and biomedical and behavioral sciences. Each proposal must be jointly submitted by one U.S. co-investigator and one FSU co-investigator. Proposals are due 18 May 2001. For further information, contact: CRDF, 1800 N. Kent St., Suite 1106, Arlington, VA 22209; (703) 526-9720; fax: (703) 526-9721; cgp@crdf.org; http://www.crdf.org.

NSF--Cognitive Neuroscience

NSF's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Directorate has announced a new emphasis for proposals in the area of cognitive neuroscience. The foundation is providing enhanced support for this research area through the division's programs in Human Cognition and Perception, Linguistics, Social Psychology, Child Learning and Development, and Physical Anthropology. Deadlines for proposals are 15 January and 15 June each year. The division is also providing additional funding mechanisms to build research capacity in cognitive neuroscience. These include small grants for pilot projects and planning activities, workshops, and doctoral dissertation research. Proposals for these activities are due no later than 16 April 2001. Contact: Joseph Young, Human Cognition and Perception, jyoung@nsf.gov; Cecile McKee, Linguistics, cmckee@nsf.gov; Steve Breckler, Social Psychology, sbreckle@nsf.gov; Rodney Cocking, Child Learning and Development, rcocking@nsf.gov; or Mark Weiss, Physical Anthropology, mweiss@nsf.gov.

NSF--ADVANCE Program

The goal of the ADVANCE program is to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce. Creative strategies to realize this goal are sought from men and women. Members of underrepresented minority groups and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. In FY 2001 the program will offer three types of awards: (1) Fellows Awards to enable promising individuals to establish or reestablish full-time independent academic research and education careers in institutions of higher learning (proposal deadline: 21-24 August 2001, depending on which directorate the proposal falls under); (2) Institutional Transformation Awards to support academic institutional transformation to promote the increased participation and advancement of women scientists and engineers in academe; (3) Leadership Awards to recognize the outstanding contributions made to date by organizations and/or individuals who have enabled the increased participation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers, and to enable awardees to sustain, intensify, and initiate new acitivities designed to make further progress. The proposal deadline for award types 2 and 3 is 8 May 2001. Contact: Alice Hogan, ADVANCE Program Director, ahogan@nsf.gov or http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/advance/.

Sociological Initiatives Foundation

The foundation provides grants of $5,000 - $15,000 to support research and social action projects. Areas of interest include but are not limited to social welfare, human rights, literacy, language learning and use, dialect use and curricular issues in teaching second languages and nonnative languages. The foundation is also interested in supporting research by sociologists and linguists whose work may provide practical documentation of initiatives that may be useful to communities. The deadline for concept letters is 15 September 2001. Contact: Prentice Zinn, (617) 426-7172; pzinn@grantsmanagement.com; http://www.grantsmanagement.com/sifguide.html.

Nota Bene

2002 Annual Meeting (3-6 January at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA). The deadline for Organized Session proposals is 14 April 2001. Proposal forms may be obtained from the Secretariat.
2001 Dues Notices. Second dues notices have been mailed. If you received one by mistake, please let us know so we can correct our files.
2001 Committee Appointments. Since the December 2000 LSA Bulletin was published, William Idsardi (U DE) has accepted appointment to the Program Committee, and Rebecca Wheeler (Christopher Newport U) has agreed to serve as Undergraduate Program Advisory Committee liaison to the Committee on Language in the Schools.
2001 Elections. The Nominating Committee requests that members who wish to suggest nominees for Vice President/President-Elect and for two positions on the Executive Committee, write to: Alice Harris, Ling Prog, Vanderbilt U, Nashville, TN 37235; harrisac@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu. Those submitting suggestions need not, at this time, ascertain the willingness of the possible nominee to run. A brief statement of the nominee's qualifications or interest in serving would be appreciated. Suggestions must be received by 1 April 2001.
2001 Committee and Delegate Appointments. In early May, the Committee on Committee and Delegate Appointments will be nominating members for committee and delegate appointments. Your suggestions of additional potential nominees and a note about their particular qualifications or interest in serving would be most appreciated. Send names by 1 April 2001 to: LSA Secretariat, 1325 18th St., NW, Suite 211, Washington, DC 20036-6501; lsa@lsadc.org.
AAAS Annual Meeting. LSA is grateful to Merrill Garrett for his willingness to represent the Society at the February 2001 meeting of Section Z: Neuroscience.
"Reading and Dialects". Handouts from this parasession of the 2001 LSA Annual Meeting can be obtained from the Secretariat. Thanks to panelists John Baugh, Charles DeBose, William Labov, Geneva Smitherman, and Walt Wolfram for their contributions to this well-attended session.

Jefferson Day 2001: Advocacy for the Humanities

The National Humanities Alliance is pleased to host Jefferson Day 2001, a two-day advocacy event held in Washington, DC, in conjunction with the annual, NEH-sponsored Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Jefferson Day 2001 is co-sponsored by over a dozen organizations including the Linguistic Society of America. Activities include an advocacy briefing workshop on the afternoon of Monday, 26 March, followed by the Jefferson Lecture and reception beginning at 7:30 PM in the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. This year's lecture will be delivered by American playwright Arthur Miller. On 27 March, a day of coordinated lobbying on Capitol Hill in support of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be capped by an afternoon debriefing session for all participants. For further information and to register, please contact the National Humanities Alliance by phone (202-296-4994) or check the NHA website: http://www.nhalliance.org/jd/. There is no charge for individual participation in Jefferson Day.

Acknowledgements

With grateful thanks the Society acknowledges the following gifts received between 1 October 2000 and 1 February 2001. The contributions of members wishing to remain anonymous are also acknowledged with thanks. Other contributions were recorded earlier.

Abdallah Alharbi; Gregory Anderson; Stephen Anderson; Mark Aronoff; Charles D. Atherton, Jr.; Emmon Bach; Frederick B. Bart; Paola Bentivoglio; Harmon Boertien; Zinny Bond; Melissa F. Bowerman; Laurel Brinton; Ellen Broselow; Susan M. Burt; Lyle Campbell; Marvin Carmony; Jose G. Centeno; Veda R. Charrow; Joseph Clements; Abigail C. Cohn; Megan Crowhurst; Christopher Culy; J. Daniel Davidson; Gerald P. Delahunty; Scott Delancey; Bruce L. Derwing; Marianna Di Paolo; Nancy C. Dorian; Bruce T. Downing; Bethany Dumas; Mary Louise Edwards; Thomas L. Eichman; Hiroyuki Eto; Julia S. Falk; Ralph W. Fasold; Leona F. Fass; Susan D. Fischer; Susan Fitzmaurice; Bonnie Fonseca-Greber; Gordon Buell Ford, Jr.; Elaine J. Francis; Barbara F. Freed; MaryEllen Garcia; Frank Y. Gladney; Susan Goldin-Meadow; Frans Gregersen; Patrick Griffiths; Jane Grimshaw; Jeanette Gundel; Gregory R. Guy; Bruce W. Hawkins; Irene Heim; Michael Hewitt; Jane H. Hill; Kenneth C. Hill; Hans Heinrich Hock; Maya Honda; HyunSuk Hong; Marie K. Huffman; Larry Hyman; William H. Jacobsen, Jr.; C. Douglas Johnson; A. K. Joshi; Jeanne Katzman; Scott Kiesling; Joo Yeun Kim; Robert T. King; Robert S. Kirsner; Sharon M. Klein; Masato Kobayashi; John Koontz; Jaklin Kornfilt; Susumu Kuno; Karen Landahl; Andrea Levitt; Anthony Lewis; Anne Lobeck; Mark L. Louden; Julie B. Lovins; Ronald Macaulay; Carolyn MacKay; Joseph Malone; Richard P. Meier; Jurgen M. Meisel; Lise Menn; Carl R. Mills; P. J. Mistry; Burckhard Mohr; Michael Morrison; Rae A. Moses; Kristin Mulrooney; Carol Myers-Scotton; Heizo Nakajima; Yoshimitsu Narita; Geoffrey S. Nathan; Barbara Need; Johanna Nichols; Geoffrey Nunberg; Lynette Nyaggah; Marie Broman Olsen; Neil H. Olsen; Wayne O'Neil; Helene Ossipov; Claudia Parodi-Lewin; Barbara Partee; John W. Pennisten; Ann Peters; Warren J. Plath; Robert Rankin; Martha S. Ratliff; John Rea; Erica Reiner; Elizabeth M. Riddle; Robert A. Rothstein; H. Schultink; Charles T. Scott; Elisabeth Selkirk; Mary Shapiro; Jack Sidnell; Carmen Silva-Corvalan; Shirley K. Silver; Craig A. Sirles; Dan I. Slobin; Donald L. Smith; Jennifer L. Smith; Philip H. Smith, Jr.; Matsuo Soga; Antonella Sorace; Carol Stoel-Gammon; Masanori Suiko; Sandra Thompson; Elizabeth C. Traugott; Shelley L. Velleman; Laurel J. Watkins; Tilo Weber; Ronnie Wilbur; Wendy Wilkins; Margaret Winters; Anthony Woodbury; Richard Wright; Malcah Yaeger-Dror; Juan Zamora.

Forthcoming Conferences

2001

March

15-17. Association for Linguistic Typology. U Tunis II, Tunisia. Theme: Reflexive & Middle: Typological Approaches. (Contact: fax: 216-1-600-910; Ahmed.Brahim@flm.rnu.tn.)
15-17. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Philadelphia, PA. (Contact: cuny2001@ircs.upenn.edu; http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/cuny2001.)
16-18. Formal Pragmatics. Humboldt U, Berlin, Germany. (Contact: Proj Dialogsemantik, Humboldt U Berlin, Prenzlauer Promenade 149-152 Rm 521/522, 13189 Berlin, Germany; toni.benz@german.hu-berlin.de; http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/asg/blutner/dialog/work2.html.)
18-21. Human Language Technology (HLT 2001). San Diego, CA. (Contact: http://hlt2001.org.)
21-23. Conceptual & Linguistic Development in the Child Aged 1-6 Years, 2nd (Decolage 2001). Besancon, France. (Contact: Caroline Floccia, Lab Psych, U Franche-Comté, 30, rue Megevand, 25000 Besancon, France; 333-81-66-54-71; fax: 333-81-66-54-40; http:slhs.univ-fcomte.fr/Serveur-UFR/Recherches/PSYCHO/decolage2001.htm.)
22-24. Pragmatics & Language Learning, 15th. U IL, Urbana-Champaign, IL. (Contact: Lawrence F Bouton, Conf Prag & Lang Lrng, 3070 FLB, U IL, 707 S Mathews Av, Urbana, IL 61801; 217-333-1506; fax: 217-244-3050; deil@uiuc.edu; http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/deil/.)
22-25. African Linguistics Conference, 32nd. UC, Berkeley, CA. (Contact: ACAL32, Dept Ling, 1203 Dwinelle Hl, UC, Berkeley, CA 94720-2650; http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~acal32.)
23-25. Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, 6th (WSCLA 6). (Contact: wscla6@mun.ca; http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~wscla6/.)
24. Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures & Romance Languages Colloquium, 11th. U TX, Austin, TX. (Contact: Nancy LaGreca, llth Colloq Org Cte, Dept Span & Port, Batts 110, U TX, Austin TX 78712.)
29 March - 1 April. Language, the Media & International Communication. St Catherine's C, U Oxford, UK. (Contact: Oxford Conf Mgmnt, 10b Littlegate St, Oxford OX1 1QT, UK; enquiries.oxconf@pop3.hiway.co.uk; http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/language.)
29 March - 1 April. Northeast Conference on Teaching Foreign Languages (NECTFL). New York, NY. (Contact: Northeast Conf, Dickinson C, PO Box 1773,Carlisle, PA 17013-2896; 717-245-1977; fax: 717-245-1976; nectfl@dickinson.edu; http://www.dickinson.edu/nectfl.)
30-31. High Desert Linguistics Conference. U NM, Albuquerque, NM. (Contact: K. Aaron Smith, Dept Ling, 526 Hum Bldg, U NM, Albuquerque, NM 87131; kaaron@unm.edu.)
30 March - 1 April. International Linguistic Association, 46th. NYU, New York. Theme: Language of the Americas: Native & Nonnative. (Contact: Johanna Woltjer; 212-749-3366; ilaconf.woltjer@gte.net; http://www.ilaword.org.)
30 March - 1 April. North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, 29th (NACAL). Toronto, ON, Canada. (Contact: Robin Thelwall, 2121 1 Av, NW, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 0B6; 403-283-4494; fax: 403-283-5584; eubule@telusplanet.net.)
30 March - 2 April. Corpus Linguistics 2001. Lancaster, UK. (Contact: Prog Cte Corpus Ling 2001, Dept Ling & MEL, Lancaster U, Lancaster LA1 4YT, UK; 44-1524-843085; fax: 44-1524-593024; mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk.)
31. Spring Linguistics Colloquium. U NC, Chapel Hill, NC. (Contact: Dept Ling, 318 Dey Hl, CB #3155, U NC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155.)

April

4-6. Generative Grammar, 11th. U Zaragoza, Spain. (Contact: Francisco Hernández Paricio, Dept Ling Gen & Hisp, Fac Philos & Let, Pedro Cerbuna 12, U Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain; cgg2001@posta.unizar.es; http://fyl.unizar.es/CONGRESOS/cgg/cgg-zaragoza.htm.)
5-6. Doctorate Meeting in Linguistics, 6th. Paris, France. (Contact: Denis Diderot, U Paris 7, UFR Ling, Atelier Doc, Case 7003, 2 Place Jussieu, 75-251 Paris Cedex 05, France; emmanuel.aim@linguist.jussieu.fr.)
5-7. Linguistics Association of Great Britain. U Leeds, UK. (Contact: d.c.nelson@leeds.ac.uk; lnpgk@leeds.ac.uk; http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB.)
5-7. Researching & Applying Metaphor, 4th (RAAM IV). Tunis, Tunisia. Theme: Metaphor, Cognition, & Culture. (Contact: zmaalej@gnet.tn.)
5-7. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). U TN, Knoxville, TN. (Contact: dumasb@utk.edu.)
6-8. Construction Grammar. UC, Berkeley, CA. (Contact: Construction Gram Conf, Dept Ling, 1203 Dwinelle Hl, UC, Berkeley, CA 94720; iccg2001@icsi.Berkeley.edu; http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/iccg2001.)
6-8. National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 4th (NCOLCTL). Arlington, VA. (Contact: Scott McGinnis, Ntl For Lang Ctr, 1029 Vermont Av, NW, Ste 1000, Washington, DC 20005; 202-637-8881 x28; fax: 202-637-9244; smcginnis@nflc.org.)
7-8. Generative Linguistics in Poland, 3rd. U Warsaw, Poland. (Contact: GLiP-3 Org Cte; glip@venus.ci.uw.edu.pl; http://venus.ci.uw.edu.pl/~glip/.)
7-8. North West Linguistics Conference (NWLC). U BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Contact: nwlc_ubc@hotmail.com.)
8-10. GLOW Colloquium. Braga, Portugal. Theme: Adjacency. (Contact: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/clunl/glow/glow_index.htm.)
18-20. Bilingualism Symposium, 3rd (ISB3). U W England, Bristol, UK. (Contact: 3rd Intnl Symp on Biling, U W England, Bristol, Fac Langs & Euro Studies, Coldharbour Ln, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK; ISBERG@uwe.ac.uk.)
19-21. Chicago Linguistic Society, 37th (CLS 37). Chicago, IL. (Contact: CLS, U Chicago, 1010 E 59 St, CL 314-A, Chicago, IL 60637; cls@diderot.uchicago.edu; http://humanities.uchicago.edu/cls.)
19-21. International Association for Dialogue Analysis 2001, 8th (IADA). Göteborg, Sweden. Theme: Recent Trends in Dialogue Analysis. (Contact: karin.aijmer@eng.gu.se.)
19-21. Society for Textual Scholarship, 11th. PA SU, University Park, PA. (Contact: Robin Schulze, Prog Chair, Soc Text Schlrshp, Dept Engl, PA SU, 119 Burrowes Bldg, University Park, PA 16802-6200; fax: 814-863-7285; rgs3@psu.edu.)
19-22. Linguistic Symposium of Romance Languages, 31st (LSRL XXXI). U IL, Chicago, IL. (Contact: LSRL XXXI Org Cte, Dept Span, Fren, Ital, Port, M/C 315, U IL, 601 S Morgan St, U IL, Chicago, IL 60607-7117; lsrl@uic.edu; http://www.uic.edu/orgs/lsrl.)
20. Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop. Macquarie U, Sydney, NSW, Australia. (Contact: Rolf Schwitter, Dept Compu, Macquarie U, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; 61-2-9850-9533; schwitt@ics.mq.edu.au.)
20-22. Semantics of Underrepresented Languages in the Americas (SULA). Northampton, MA. (Contact: Lisa Mathewson/SULA, Dept Ling, U MA, South College, Box 37130, Amherst, MA 01003-7130; lisa@linguist.umass.edu.)
20-22. Symposium about Language & Society-Austin, 9th (SALSA 2001). U TX, Austin, TX. (Contact: SALSA, Dept Ling, U TX, Austin, TX 78712; utsalsa@uts.cc.utexas.edu; http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa.)
21-23. Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, 7th (GLAC-7). Banff, AB, Canada. (Contact: Robert W Murray/Amanda Pounder, Dept Ling, U Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4; glac7@ucalgary.ca; http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~glac7/glac7.html.)
26-28. Generative Approaches to the Lexicon. U Geneva, Switzerland. (Contact: Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO/TIM, 40, blvd du Pont-d'Arve, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; 41-22-705-8679; fax: 41-22-705-8689; Pierrette.Bouillon@issco.unige.ch; http://issco-www.unige.ch/conf.html.)
27-29. Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, 8th (AFLA). MIT, Cambridge, MA. (Contact: Ileana Paul/Norvin Richards, AFLA Org Cte, Dept Ling & Phil, E39-245, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139; afla@mit.edu. )
27-29. Poznan Linguistic Meeting, 33rd. Poznan, Poland. Theme: Challenges for Linguistics in the 21st Century. (Contact: PLM 2001, Sch Engl, Adam Mickiewicz U,Collegium Novum, al. Niepodleglosci 4, 61-874 Poznan, Poland; 48-61-829-3506; fax: 48-61-829-3505; plm@ifa.amu.edu.pl; http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/.)

May

1. Semantic Web WWW-10 Workshop. Hong Kong. (Contact: http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de.)
3-4. Terminology & Artificial Intelligence, 4th (TAI-2001). Nancy, France. (Contact: Patricia Gautier; URI-INIST-CNRS, 2 allée du Parc de Brabois, F-54514 Vandoeuvre Cedex, France; 33-3-83-50-46-70; tia2001@inist.fr; http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm.)
4-6. Theoretical & Applied Linguistics Symposium, 15th. Aristotle U, Thessaloniki, Greece. (Contact: E Mela-Athanasopoulou, Chair, Org. Cte, Sch Engl, Aristotle U, 540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece; fax: 30-31-997432; ema@enl.auth.gr .)
5-6. Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop , 16th (CGSW 16). McGill U, Montreal, PQ, Canada. (Contact: CGSW 16 Abst Cte, Dept Ling, McGill U, 1085 Dr Penfield, Montréal, PQ, Canada H3A 1A7; susi@alum.mit.edu; http://www.mcgill.ca/cgsw.)
6-7. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, 10th (FASL 10). Ann Arbor, MI. (Contact: Jindrich Toman, 3040 MLB, U MI, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.)
6-9. Dictionary Society of North America. U MI, Ann Arbor, MI. (Contact: Richard W Bailey, Dept Engl, U MI, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003; fax: 734-763-3128; rwbailey@umich.edu.)
7-10. Asymmetry Conference. UQAM, Montreal, PQ, Canada. (Contact: Anna Maria DiSciullo, UQAM, Dept Ling, Case Postale 8888, Succursale Centre Ville Montreal, PQ, Canada H3C 3P8.)
11-12. Midwest Association of Language Testers, 3rd (MwALT). U MI, Ann Arbor, MI. Theme: Crossing Language Boundaries. (Contact: Mary C Spaan, MwALT 2001 Prog Co-Chair, ELI, U MI, 1009 N University Bldg, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1057; 734-647-0476; fax: 734-615-6586; mcspaan@umich.edu.)
11-13. Finiteness Conference. U Konstanz, Germany. Abstract deadline: 30 March 2001. (Contact: Irina Nikolaeva, U Konstanz, Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Fach 175, Konstanz D-78457, Germany; irina.nikolaeva@uni-konstanz.de.)
11-13. Semantics & Linguistic Theory, 11th (SALT 11). NYU, New York, NY. (Contact: Anna Szabolcsi, Dept Ling, NYU, 719 Broadway Rm 501, New York, NY 10003; 212-998-7956; fax: 212-995-4707; http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/.)
16-18. English Applied Linguistics Seminar, 6th (ELIA VI). Seville, Spain. Theme: The Development of Communicative Competence: Past, Present, & Future. (Contact: Pilar Garces Conejos, ELIA VI, Dept Engl Philol, Fac Philol, C/Palos de la Frontera s/n, 41004 Seville, Spain; pilar_garces@yahoo.com.)
16-20. International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, 4th (ICASS IV). Quebec City, PQ, Canada. (Contact: http://www.fss.ulaval.ca/iassa).
18-19. Applied Linguistics Conference, 6th. Puebla, Mexico. Theme: Technological & Educational Aspects of Second Language Acquisition & Teaching. (Contact: Virginia LoCastro, Dept Leng, U de las Americas-Puebla, Sta Catarina Martir, Cholulua, Puebla 72820, Mexico; 52-2-229-3105; locastro@mail.udlap.mx; http://webserver.pue.udlap.mx/~lldl_www/congreso/congresolenguas.html.)
18-20. Athabaskan Languages Conference. UC, Los Angeles, CA. (Contact: Athabaskan Lang Conf 2001, c/o Siri Tuttle, Dept Ling, 3125 Campbell Hl, UC, Box 951543, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543; http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~stuttle/alc.)
18-20. Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics, 3rd (FAJL3). MIT, Cambridge, MA. (Contact: hiraiwa@mit.edu; http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/FAJL3.)
22-25. Deictic Systems & Quantification in Languages Spoken in Europe & North & Central Asia. Udmurt SU, Izhevsk, Russia. (Contact: Pirkko Suihkonen, Max Planck Inst, Dept Ling, Inselstr 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany; symposium-izhevsk@eva.mpg.de; http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/uhlcs/symposium-izhevsk/symposium-announcement.html.)
24-27. Canadian Linguistic Association. U Laval, Québec, PQ, Canada. (Contact: cla-acl@chass.utoronto.ca; http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cla-acl/.)
24-27. Nordic Conference for English Studies, 8th. Göteborg, Sweden. (Contact: http://www.hum.gu.se/~engadel/NAES/).
24-27. Structure of Hungarian, 15th. Budapest, Hungary. (Contact: Zoltan Banreti, Res Inst Ling, VI. Benczur u. 33, Budapest H-1068, Hungary;icsh@nytud.hu.)
30 May - 1 June. Phonology Meeting of the GDR (CNRS), 3rd. Nantes, France. Abstract deadline: 25 March 2001. (Contact: Jean-Pierre Angoujard, Acoustique, Acq & Interp, Fac Let & Hum Scis, BP 81277, 44312 Nantes Cedex 3, France; jean-pierre.angoujard@humana.univ-nantes.fr.)
31 May - 2 June. Cognitive & Neural Systems, 5th. Boston U, MA. (Contact: Cynthia Bradford, Dept Cogn & Neural Sys, Boston U, 677 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02215; http://ww.cns.bu.edu/meetings/.)

June

2-7. Association for Computational Linguistics, North American Chapter, 2nd. Carnegie Mellon U, Pittsburgh, PA. Theme: Language Technologies 2001. (Contact: http://www.aclweb.org/naacl.)
3-4. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2001). Carnegie Mellon U, Pittsburgh, PA. (Contact: llee@cs.cornell.edu; http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html.)
8-9. Balkan Sprachbund Properties. U Leiden, The Netherlands. (Contact: o.tomic@let.leidenuniv.nl; http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/spls.)
8-10. North American Association of Celtic Language Teachers (NAACLT). St Peter's C, Jersey City, NJ. (Contact: Thomas Ihde, Mid & High Sch Ed, Lehman C, CUNY, 250 Bedford Park Blvd W, Bronx, NY 10468-1589; conference@naaclt.org; http://www.naaclt.org.)
9. Theoretical & Applied Linguistics. U Durham, UK. Abstract deadline: 18 April 2001. (Contact: Lieve Van Espen, Dept Ling & Engl Lang, U Durham, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham DH1 3JT, UK; lieve.van-espen@durham.ac.uk; http://www.dur.ac.uk/Linguistics/pgcall4.html.)
9-10. Discourse & Cognitive Linguistics: Perspectives for the 21st Century. Seoul, Korea. (Contact: Disc & Cogn Ling Soc of Korea, c/o Sch Engl, Hankuk U For Stud, 270 Imun-dong Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-791, S Korea; 82-961-4721; fax: 82-962-5538; discog@hufs.ac.kr.)
9-11. Formal Linguistics/China. Changsha, PRC. (Contact: Ning Chunyan, Sch For Langs, Hunan Normal U, YueLu Mount, Changsha, PRC 410081; 86-731-887-2646; ningcy@mail.hunnu.edu.cn.)
11-12. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, 17th (IATL 17). Hebrew U, Jerusalem, Israel. (Contact: Jeannette Schaeffer, Dept For Lits & Ling, Ben Gurion U of the Negev, PO Box 653, Be'er Sheva 84105, Israel; jschaef@bgumail.bgu.ac.il.)
14-16. Semantics & Pragmatics of Dialogue, 5th. Bielefeld U, Germany. (Contact: bidialog@uni-bielefeld.de; http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG/.)
16-17. Maylay/Indonesian Linguistics Symposiam. Leipzig, Germany. (Contact: PKBB, Unika Atma Jaya, Jl Sudirman 51, Jakarta 12930, Indonesia; fax: 62-21-571-9560; uri@cbn.net.id; http://www.monolith.eva.mpg.de/~gil/leipzig2001.html.)
18-20. Inference in Computational Semantics, 3rd (ICoS-3). Siena, Italy. (Contact: icos3@ags.uni-sb.de; http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kohlhase/event/icos3/.)
18-22. Orality & Gesturality (ORAGE 2001). Aix-en-Provence, France. (Contact: Colloq ORAGE 2001, Lab Parole & Lang, U Provence, 29, av R Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France; 33-04-42-95-36-37; fax: 33-04-42-59-50-96; orage2001@lpl.univ-aix.fr; http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~gevoix/ORAGE2001.)
18-23. International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR). Short paper deadline: 2 April 2001. (Contact: Fabio Massacci, Dept Ing Info, U Siena, via Roma 56; 53100 Siena, Italy; 39-0577-234-607; fax: 39-0577-233602; ijcar-cc@dii.unisi.it; http://www.dii.unisi.it/~ijcar.)
22-24. International Association of Chinese Linguistics, 10th (IACL-10). UC, Irvine, CA. (Contact: IACL/NACCL Conf Cte, Dept Ling, 3151 Social Science Plaza, UC, Irvine, CA 92697-5100; iaclten@uci.edu; http://aris.ss.uci.edu/ling/iacl/10th/iacl-10.html.)
24-29. Latin Linguistics Colloquium, 11th. U Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Contact: Jan Vonk, Klassiek Sem, U Amsterdam, Oude Turfmarkt 129, 1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 31-20-525-2523; fax: 31-20-525-2544; latling@hum.uva.nl; http://www.hum.uva.nl/latling.)
25-27. Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG2001). U Hong Kong. (Contact: LFG2001, Chris Manning, Dept Ling, Stanford U, Stanford, CA 94305-2150; manning@csli.stanford.edu; http://www.hku.hk/linguist/research/LFG2001.html.)
26-27. Society for Pidgin & Creole Linguistics. U Coimbra, Portugal. (Contact: http://www.ling.su.se/creole/calendar/SPCL-Coimbra2001.html.)
27-29. Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, 4th (LACL 2001). Le Croisic, France. (Contact: LACL 2001, Attn: G Morrill, UPC, Dept LSI, Campus Nord, Module C6, Jordi Girona Salgado 1-3, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain; http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001.)
28-29. Associação Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola. U Coimbra, Portugal. (Contact: http://www.ling.su.se/creole/calendaar/ACBLPE-Coimbra2001.html.)
29 June - 1 July. Japanese/ Korean Linguistics Conference, 11th. UC, Santa Barbara, CA. (Contact: pclancy@humanitas.ucsb.edu.rmation.)
30 June - 2 July. International Forensic Linguistics Association, 5th (IAFL). U Malta. (Contact: http://www.iafl.org.)

July

2-3. From Sentence Processing to Discourse Interpretation: Crossing the Borders. Utrecht U, The Netherlands. Abstract deadline: 30 March 2001. (Contact: Utrecht U, Utrecht Inst Ling OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands.)
2-5. Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN '01). Tours, France. (Contact: maurel@univ-tours.fr.)
5-6. Prosody in Processing. Utrecht U, The Netherlands. (Contact: PiP Org Cte, UIL-OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands; pip@let.uu.nl; http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/conferences/pip/.)
5-8. Chadic Languages. U Leipzig, Germany. (Contact: H Ekkehard Wolff, Inst Afr, U Leipzig, Burgstrasse 21, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany; 49-341-97-37031; fax: 49-341-97-37048; wolff@rz.uni-leipzig.de; http://www.uni-leipzig.de/afrikanistik/.)
6-8. Tools in Linguistic Theory. Utrecht Inst Ling OTS, The Netherlands. Abstract deadline: 2 April 2001. (Contact: TiLT Org Cte, Utrecht Inst Ling OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands; tilt@let.uu.nl.)
6-11. Association for Computational Linguistics & European Association for Computational Linguistics. Toulouse, France. (Contact: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITIES/EQ_ILPL/ac/Web/acl2001.html.)
9-11. Child Language Seminar 2001. U Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK. (Contact: CLS, Dept Psych, U Hertfordshire, Hatfield, HERTS AL10 9AB, UK; 11-44-1707 285283; P.Treacher@herts.ac.uk; http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/cls.)
9-11. Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control & Automation (CIMCA 2001). Las Vegas, NV. (Contact: CIMCA 2001 Sec, Sch Compu, U Canberra, Canberra 2601, ACT, Australia; cimca@ise.canberra.edu.au; http://www.beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/CIMCA2001/index.htm.)
9-11. Neurological Basis of Language: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Aphasiological, Computational, & Neuroimaging Approaches. Groningen, The Netherlands. (Contact: nbl@let.rug.nl; http://www.let.rug.nl/nbl/.)
11-13. African Language Association of South Africa (ALASA). U Port Elizabeth, S Africa. Theme: African Languages in the 21st Century: Strategic Plans. (Contact: Off Dean, Fac Arts, U Port Elizabeth, PO Box 1600, 6000 Port Elizabeth, S Africa; afabdp@upe.ac.za; +27 41 5042187; fax:+27 41 5042827.)
13-15. Korean Linguistics Symposium, 9th (ISOKL 9). Harvard U, Cambridge, MA. (Contact: Ik-Hwan Lee, Dept Engl, Yonsei U, Seoul 120-749, S Korea; 82-2-2123-2315; fax: 82-2-313-3676; ihlee@mail.yonsei.ac.kr or Susumu Kuno, Dept Ling, Harvard U, 305 Boylston Hl, Cambridge, MA 02138; kuno@fas.husc.harvard.edu.)
13-15. New Frontiers in Chinese Psycholinguistics. UC, Santa Barbara, CA. (Contact: Ping Li, Dept Psych, U Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173; pli@richmond.edu.)
19. California Languages Workshop. UC, Santa Barbara, CA. (Contact: Marianne Mithun, ALT Wkshp CA Langs, Dept Ling, UC, Santa Barbara, CA 93106; fax: 805-563-1948; mithun@humanitas.ucsb.edu.)
19-21. Passages: Three Centuries of Francophone Presence at Le Détroit. Windsor, ON, Canada. (Contact: Hum Res Grp, U Windsor, 401 Av Sunset, Windsor, ON, Canada N9B 3P4; passages@uwindsor.ca.)
19-22. Association for Linguistic Typology, 4th (ALT IV). UC, Santa Barbara, CA. (Contact: Casper de Groot, Prog Cte ALT, Leerstoelgroep Theor Taalwetenschap, U Amsterdam, Spuistr 210, NL-1012 VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; fax: 31-20-525-3052;casper.de.groot@hum.uva.nl; http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/alt.)
19-22. UK Language Variation Conference, 3rd. U York, UK. (Contact: Dept Lang & Ling Sci, U York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK; uklvc3@york.ac.uk; 44-1904432671; fax: 44-1904-432673.)
20-21. Topic & Focus: Intonation & Meaning. UC, Santa Barbara, CA. (Contact: gordon@humanitas.ucsb.edu; http://www.summer.ucsb.edu/lsa2001.)
22-27. International Cognitive Linguistics Association. UC, Santa Barbara, CA. (Contact: iclcabs@rice.edu; http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/.)
22-28. Systemic Functional Congress, 28th. Carleton U, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Theme: Systemic Functional Grammar & Critical Discourse Analysis. (Contact: isfc28@carleton.ca; http://www.carelton.ca/isfc28/.)
24-28. Cross-Cultural Communication. Hong Kong. Theme: Communication & Cultural (Ex)Change. (Contact: span@ied.edu.hk.)
27-28. Tibeto-Burman Languages & Linguistics. UC, Santa Barbara, CA. (Contact: Carol Genetti, Dept Ling, UC, Santa Barbara, CA 93106; 805-893-3776; cgenetti@humanitas.ucsb.edu; http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/events/tburman.)
27-29. Role and Reference Grammar. UC, Santa Barbara, CA. (Contact: vanvalin@acsu.buffalo.edu.)
27-30. Modeling & Using Context, 3rd. Dundee, Scotland. (Contact: Paolo Bouquet, CONTEXT'01, Dept Compu Sci, U Trento, Via Inama, 5, I-38100 Trento, Italy; 39-461-882-135; fax: 39-461-882-124; bouquet@cs.unitn.it; http://www.cs.unitn.it/~bouquet.)
28-30. Language Planning & Lexicology. Croatian Acad, Zagreb, Croatia. (Contact: Christer Kiselman, PO Box 480, SE-751 06 Uppsala, Sweden; kiselman@math.uu.se)
31 July - 4 August. Linguistic Association of Canada & the United States (LACUS). U Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, PQ, Canada. Theme: The Nature of Evidence in Linguistics. (Contact: Lois M Stanford, Dept Ling, U AB, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E7, Canada; lois.stanford@ualberta.ca; http://www.lacus.org.)

August

1-4. Cognitive Science Society, 23rd. U Edinburgh, Scotland. (Contact: Cogn Sci Soc, 5618 Ann Arbor-Saline Rd, Saline, MI 48176; cogsci@umich.edu; http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/cogsci2001.)
3-5. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 8th (HPSG-2001). Norwegian U Sci & Tech, Trondheim, Norway. (Contact: frank@pricie.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be.)
6-11. ASL European Summer Meeting (Logic Colloquium '01). Vienna, Austria. Abstract deadline: 1 May 2001. (Contact: Logic Colloq '01, Kurt Gödel Society, c/o Inst Computersprachen, Tech U Vienna 185, Favoritenstrasse 9, A-1040 Vienna, Austria; lc2001@logic.at.)
10-12. Formal Grammar/Mathematics of Language (FG/MOL). Helsinki, Finland. Abstract deadline: 1 April 2001. (Contact: fgmol@cs.indiana.edu; http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol7.html.)
13-17. Historical Linguistics, 15th (ICHL 2001). Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Abstract deadline: 15 April 2001. (Contact: Prof Barry Blake, Dir ICHL 2001, Dept Ling, La Trobe U, Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia; B.Blake@latrobe.edu.au; http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/linguistics/conferences.html.)
18-21. American Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA. (Contact: www.asanet.org/convention/2001/.)
20-24. Language for Special Purposes, 13th. U Vaasa, Finland. (Contact: LSP2001, Dept Scand Langs, PO Box 700, FI-65101 Vaasa, Finland; 358-6-324-8810; fax: 358-6-324-8820; LSP2001@uwasa.fi; http://www.uwasa.fi/lsp2001/.)
22-24. The Lexicon in Linguistic Theory. Duesseldorf, Germany. (Contact: http:/www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/sfb282/sfb2001/.)
22-24. Phonology & Morphology of Creole Languages. U Siegen, Germany. (Contact: Ingo Plag, Creole Wkshp 2001, Engl Ling, Fachbereich 3, U-Gesamthochschule Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein Str 2, D-57068 Siegen, Germany; 0271-740-2560; fax: 0271-740-3246; plag@anglistik.uni-siegen.de; http://www.uni-siegen.de/~engspra/workshop/.)
22-25. Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, 8th. Hamburg U, Germany. Abstract deadline: 31 March 2001. (Contact: 8th NSLC 200, Mechthild Reh, Inst Afr & Ethiopian Stud, Rothenbaumchaussee 67/69, Hamburg , D-20148 Hamburg, Germany; 49-40-428-384-873; fax: 49-40-428-385-675; nilosah@uni-hamburg.de.)
24-26. Early Contacts between English & the Celtic Languages. U Joensuu Res Sta, Mekrijarvi, Finland. (Contact: Juhani Klemola, Dept Enl, U Helsinki, PO Box 3, 00140 Helsinki, Finland; juhani.klemola@helsinki.fi; http://www.joensuu.fi/fld/ecc/.)
27-31. International Conference on Cognitive Science, 3rd (ICCS2001). Beijing, PRC. Paper deadline: 30 March 2001. (Contact: Beijing Lab Cogn Sci, U Sci & Tech China, Grad Sch, Acad Sinica, PO Box 3908, 100039 Beijing, PRC; iccs2001org@etang.com; http://www.iccs2001.com.)
27 August - 7 September. Celtic and Medieval Irish Studies, 5th. Maynooth, Ireland. (Contact: Kim McCone, Dept Old Irish, Nat U Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Conty Kildare, Ireland; krmccone@compuserve.com.)
28-31. Societas Linguistica Europaea, 34th (SLE). Leuven, Belgium. Theme: Language Study in Europe at the Turn of the Millennium: Towards the Integration of Cognitive, Historical, & Cultural Approaches to Language. (Contact: Bert Cornillie, SLE Mtg 2001, Dept Ling, Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; 32-16-324765; fax: 32-16-324767; SLE2001@arts.kuleuven.ac.be; http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/sle2001/.)
29-31. Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech. U Edinburgh, Scotland. (Contact: disfl@ling.ed.ac.uk; http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/DISS-01.)
30 August - 1 September. New Zealand Linguistic Society. U Canterbury, New Zealand. Abstract deadline: 7 June 2001. (Contact: Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Dept Ling, U Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand; mcc@ling.canterbury.ac.nz; http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwlingui/NZLS/01Conf.html.)
30 August - 1 September. Storytelling in the Americas. Brock U, St Catharines, ON, Canada. (Contact: Mark Anderson, Dept Hist, Brock U, St Catherines, ON, Canada L2S 3A1; manderso@spartan.ac.brocku.ca; http://www.brocku.ca/storytelling/callforpapers.htm.)

September

3-7. European Conference on Speech Communication & Technology, 7th (EUROSPEECH 2001-Scandinavia). Aalborg, Denmark. (Contact: Wim van Dommelen, Dept Ling, Nor U Sci & Tech, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway; 47-73-596527; fax: 47-73-596119; wim.van.dommelen@hf.ntnu.no; http://eurospeech2001.org.)
6-8. Modality in Contemporary English. U Verona, Italy. (Contact: Roberta Facchinetti, Fac Ed, U Verona, Via S. Francesco 22, 37219 Verona, Italy; fax: 39-045-802-8705; faro@chiostro.univr.it; http://www.univr.it/cla/conferences/modality/modality_index.htm.)
7-9. Himalayan Languages, 7th. Uppsala U, Sweden. (Contact: Anju Saxena, Dept Ling, Uppsala U, Box 527, SE-744 51 Uppsala, Sweden; 46-18-471-1457; fax: 46-18-471-1416; anju.saxena@ling.uu.se; http:/www.afro.uu.se/HLS-7.html.)
7-9. Practical Applications in Language Corpora (PALC 2001). Lodz U, Poland. Abstract deadline: 31 March 2001. (Contact: Dept Engl Lang, Al. Kosciuszki 65, 90-514 Lodz, Poland; 48-42-639-0220; fax: 48-42-639-0218; corpora@krysia.uni.lodz.pl.)
10-13. Text, Speech, & Dialogue (TSD 2001). Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic. Paper deadline: 15 March 2001. (Contact: Helena Benesova, U West Bohemia, Fac App Scis, Dept Compu Sci, Univerzitni 8, CZ-306 14 Pilsen, Czech Republic; 420-19-7491-212; fax: 420-19-7491-213; tsd2001@kiv.zcu.cz; http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001.)
10-15. BISCA Hierarchies of Representation. Bolzano, Italy. (Contact: liliana.albertazzi@soc.unitn.it.)
13-15. Third Language Acquisition & Trilingualism, 2nd. Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. (Contact: Danny Beetsma, Fryske Acad, PO Box 54, 8900 AB Leeuwarden, The Netherlands; fax: 31-58-213-1409; dbeetsma@fa.knaw.nl; http://www.spz.tu-darmstadt.de/projekt_L3/conferences/L3conf2001/ Index.html.)
14-16. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 2001). Palmela, Portugal. (Contact: gala2001@netvisao.pt; http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/clunl/gala_index.htm.)
18-22. Machine Translation Summit, 8th. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (Contact: MT-Summit@cst.ku.dk; http://www.eamt.org/summitVII.)
20-22. Victor Henry: Linguistique & Partages Disciplinaires a la Fin du 19th Siecle en France. U Paris III, France. (Contact: Christian Puech, U Paris III Sorbonne nouvelle, Ctr Ling Française, 13, rue de Santeuil, 75005 Paris, France; christian.puech@univ-paris3.fr.)
20-23. Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition. U IL, Urbana, IL. (Contact: http://www.uic.edu/depts/sfip/index.htm.)
20-23. Mediterranean Meeting on Morphology, 3rd (MMM3). Barcelona, Spain. Abstract deadline: 3 April 2001. (Contact: mmm.barcelona@iula.upf.es; http://www.iula.upf.es/mmm3.htm.)
22-25. The Prehistory of Australia, 2nd (ARCLING II). Canberra, ACT, Australia. (Contact: Patrick McConvell, Lang & Soc AIATSIS, GPO 553, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; 61-2-62461116; fax: 61-2-62497714; patrick@aiatsis.gov.au.)
25-28. Languages of the Far East, Southeast Asia, & West Africa, 6th. U St Petersburg, Russia. Abstract
deadline: 10 May 2001. (Contact: fax: 7- 812-328-7732; yanson@RY1703.spb.edu .)
28-30. Graduate Student Conference on Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, & Cognitive Science (PHICS). Carleton U, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Paper deadline: 1 May 2001. (Contact: http://www.carleton.ca/iis/PHICS/.)
28-30. Linguistic Association of the Southwest, 30th (LASSO). Albuquerque, NM. Theme: Language Use & Structure. Abstract deadline: 1 June 2001. (Contact: MaryEllen Garcia, Div For Langs, U TX, San Antonio, TX 78249-0644; mgarcia@utsa.edu; http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/swjl/lasso/html.)

October

4-6. Paris Syntax & Semantics Conference (CSSP 2001). Paris, France. Abstract deadline: 30 April 2001. (Contact: Syntax & Seman Colloq, U Paris 7, Ling, UFRL, Case 7003, Tour Cntrl, 9 fl, 2 Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris-Cedex 05, France; CSSP01@linguist.jussieu.fr; http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/CSSP.html)
8-10. South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 21st (SALA XXI). Konstanz, Germany. Abstract deadline: 15 May 2001. (Contact: Miriam Butt, U Konstanz, FB Sprachwissenschaft, D 186, 78457 Konstanz, Germany; 49-7531-88-26-80; fax: 49-7531-88-44 59; sala01@uni-konstanz.de; http://lling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/sala01/.)
11-14. New Ways of Analyzing Variation, 30th (NWAV-30). NC SU, Raleigh, NC. Abstract deadline: 1 June 2001. (Contact: Walt Wolfram, Box 8105, Dept Engl, NC SU, Raleigh, NC 27695-8105; walt_wolfram@ncsu.edu; http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/nwav.)
12-14. Acquisition of Spanish & Portuguese as First & Second Languages. U IL-Urbana, IL. Abstract deadline: 1 May 2001. (Contact: Silvina Montrul, Dept Span, Ital,& Port, 4080 FLB, MC-176, U IL, 707 S. Mathews Av, Urbana, IL 61801; montrul@uiuc.edu; http://www.sip.uiuc.edu/conf2001.)
17-19. Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS-2001). Ogunquit, ME. Paper deadline: 11 April 2001. (Contact: Chris Welty, Dept Compu Sci, Vassar C, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601; 914-437-5992; http://www.fois.org/.)
19-20. Conflict & Negotiation in the Language of Specialized Texts, 2nd (CERLIS). Bergamo, Italy. Abstract deadline: 30 April 2001. (Contact: CERLIS, Dept Ling & Comparative Lit, U Bergamo, via Salvecchio 19, 2429 Bergamo, Italy; fax: 39-35-246443; cerlis@unibg.it; http://www.unibg.it/cerlis/home.htm.)
23-26. Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2nd (IAT-2001). Maebashi City, Japan. (Contact: Ning Zhong, IAT-2001, Dept Inf Eng, Maebashi Inst Tech, 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan; 81-27-265-7366; zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp; http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/iat01.)

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Job Opportunities

Job discrimination is illegal. The Linguistic Society retains the right to refuse or edit all discriminatory statements from copy sent to the Secretariat for publication in the LSA Bulletin that are not in consonance with the principles of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Executive Committee of the LSA hopes that all the job announcements will facilitate open hiring on the basis of merit to the advantage of all.

The LSA accepts listings from academic institutions under censure by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). However, these listing are identified in this publication by (o) preceding position openings in order to advise applicants that the employing institution or its administration has been censured by the AAUP and that further information may be obtained from the relevant AAUP Bulletin.

The Website LINGUISTIC ENTERPRISES is available at http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/lingu/enter.htm. This nonprofit site aims to help academically trained linguists find private sector employment. It offers down-to-earth advice, how-to information, and an opportunity to discuss prospects and problems with others who have found work or are seeking it. The site is maintained by the PhD Program in Linguistics at the Graduate School, City University of New York, in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America.

Macalester College. The Linguistics program is seeking a sociolinguist who can also teach field methods for a one-semester sessional appointment February - May 2002. The third course will be determined in part by the interests of the successful candidate. Salary, although scandalously low, is competitive for appointments of this type, and we will do our best to get the maximum possible commitment from a pragmatic and unsentimental administration. Bearing in mind that Macalester College is a liberal arts undergraduate institution, a flair for teaching ia a must. Candidates should send CV, three letters of reference, syllabi and teaching evaluations, and representative publications, if available, to: Linguistics Search Committee, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105. Review of applications will begin at once and continue until the position is filled. Macalester is an AA/EO employer. [2/23/01]

Modern Language Association. Assistant thesaurus editor. Responsibility for maintenance and development of designated group of subject terms used in the MLA International Bibliography, a major reference in literature, linguistics, and folklore. Reconcile indexing terms with thesaurus, proofread and edit subject index. Required: knowledge of thesaurus theory, structure, and design; MA in linguistics; good knowledge of at least one language other than English, solid background in cultural history. Send by mail a letter of application and resume to: Modern Language Association, Box TFT, 26 Broadway, New York, NY 10004-1789. MLA is an equal opportunity employer. Visit our website at: http://www.mla.org.

Ohio State University. The Department of Linguistics seeks candidates for a tenure-track position in computational linguistics at the rank of assistant professor. The appointment would begin as early as the autumn of 2001. Incumbent will be expected to be active in research and publication, to meet standard departmental teaching requirements, and to perform service duties as required by the department, college and university. We are seeking applications from computational linguists whose research complements the existing departmental strengths in phonetics and phonology, pragmatics, or psycholinguistics. To assure consideration, applications must be received by 9 March 2001. Dossiers consisting of a letter of interest, current curriculum vitae, and names of three references should be sent to: Computational Linguistics Search Committee, Dept. Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 222 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210-1298. The Ohio State University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

University of Oregon. The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures invites applications for a full-time one-year position as a visiting assistant professor of Japanese linguistics. Applicants should be prepared to teach graduate courses in such areas as Japanese phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, and/or in second language acquisition and second language teaching; and undergraduate language courses. The position begins 16 September 2001. Required are a PhD or ABD in (Japanese) linguistics or applied linguistics and native or near-native fluency in Japanese and English. Excellence in teaching is a priority. Send an application letter, CV, three letters of recommendation, and brief research sample to: Japanese Linguistics Search Committee, Dept. East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403; fax: (541) 346-0260. Applications will be reviewed beginning 30 March 2001. AA/EO/ADA Employer.

Job announcements published in the LSA Bulletin are also posted at the LSA website. Jobs with deadlines that do not work with the bulletin publication dates are posted at the LSA website only. All job announcements are handled through the LSA Secretariat. To request a posting, contact the Advertising Manager via email (lsa@lsadc.org) or fax: (202) 835-1717. Please include contact name, billing address, and the job announcement itself in your request. The deadlines for inclusion in the LSA Bulletin are 1 February (March issue), 1 May (June issue), 1 October (October issue), and 1 December (December issue). Jobs for posting only at the website may be submitted anytime.

Audit Report

This is the statement of support, revenues, expenses, and changes in the fund balances of the Linguistic Society for the year ending 30 September 2000. A copy of the financial statements is available from the Secretariat.

Unrestricted

General Designated Temporarily

Fund Investment Restricted Total

ASSETS

Current Assets

Cash and equivalents $ - $ 164,147 $ 123,873 $ 288,020

Investments 214,506 1,061,396 242,533 1,518,435

Accounts receivable 4,550 - - 4,550

Interfund receivable (payable) (36,190) 36,190 - -

Prepaid expenses 7,613 - - 7,613

Total current assets 190,479 1,261,733 366,406 1,818,618

Fixed Assets

Building 137,440 - - 137,440

Property Improvements 4,535 - - 4,535

Furniture and fixtures 11,851 2,134 15,689 29,674

Less: accumulated depreciation (98,266) (457) (8,652) (107,375)

Net fixed assets 55,560 1,677 7,037 64,274

Total assets $ 246,039 $ 1,263,410 $ 373,443 $1,882,892

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Current liabilities

Accounts payable $ 27,878 $ - $ - $ 27,878

Accrued expenses 14,846 - - 14,846

Deferred revenue 86,828 - - 86,828

Total current liabilities 129,552 - - 129,552

Long-term liabilities

Deferred revenue 47,885 - __________- 47,885

Total liabilities 177,437 - - 177,437

Net assets 68,602 1,263,410 373,443 1,705,455

Total liabilities and net assets $ 246,039 $ 1,263,410 $ 373,443 $1,882,892

The balances in the restricted funds are as follows with comparative totals for 1996-1999:

Year 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000

Fund for Future of Linguistics $124,488 $167,207 $164,287 $120,253 $104,982

Linguistic Institutes 158,130 194,849 195,947 213,355 225,630

Membership Assistance 15,386 16,191 17,109 16,664 17,848

Committee on Status of Women 4,558 3,601 4,043 4,740 3,292

Child Care Assistance 8,716 8,613 9,098 9,158 9,886

Capital Equipment 7,286 5,983 5,203 4,263 3,171

Linguistics in the Public Sector 5,715 9,757 11,949 7,709 4,852

Other 935 1,532 5,304 2,351 3,782

Total $325,21 $407,733 $412,940 $378,493 $373,443

2001 Summer Linguistic Institute
University of California-Santa Barbara

25 June - 3 August 2001
Director: Charles Li
Associate Director: Masayoshi Shibatani

Linguistic Diversity: How and Why Languages Differ
Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Major Pacific Rim Languages

The Institute will offer basic and advanced courses in the core areas of the discipline, including phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, discourse, language evolution and change, and typology, as well as courses in language use, language and culture, language acquisition, and literacy.

In keeping with the focus on linguistic diversity, some courses delve into the special complexities of several typologically different language families. Several sets of related courses will constitute sub-institutes, organized around such topics as Minimalism, Conversational Analysis, Teaching English as a Second Language, Chinese Corpus Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics, and Korean Linguistics.

Schedule changes: We regret that Lila Gleitman, John Haiman, Larry Hyman, and Dieter Stein will be unable to teach. Check the Institute web page for faculty updates.

A rich selection of workshops and conferences, some small and some large, will also be held during the Institute.

Deadline for housing requests and registration: 1 April 2001

To request a catalog: l.theobald@summersessions.ucsb.edu.
For current information: http://www.summer.ucsb.edu/lsa2001/index.html

SAMPLE BALLOT

Resolution--January 2001

The rules for motions and resolutions, prepared by William Gedney and Ilse Lehiste and approved by the Executive Committee at its June 1973 meeting, specify all motions initiated from the floor at the annual business meeting, if they receive affirmative vote of a majority of members voting at the meeting, are to be submitted by the Executive Committee to a mail ballot in the next issue of the LSA Bulletin. The following resolution, drafted and forwarded to the Resolutions Committee by the Executive Committee, was approved by a majority of those attending the Washington, DC, business meeting (5 January 2001) and is now submitted for your consideration. Passage requires: (1) a majority of those voting, and (2) that the total of those voting in favor must be at least 2.5% of the personal membership (or approximately 100 members).

Resolution:

The LSA affirms for signed languages such as ASL all the rights and privileges attendant to any spoken languages, including the right to satisfy a student's academic foreign language requirement, just as Spanish, Chinese, Navajo, or any other spoken language can. Because communication through language is a basic human need and right, the LSA supports laws that ensure interpreters for deaf people in their interactions with hearing people who do not sign. We also encourage American educational institutions at all levels to create opportunities for leaning ASL so that those in regular contact with members of the deaf community can study and learn ASL, and to foster the study of ASL by supporting research on it and by developing educational degree programs for teachers of ASL, for interpreters of ASL, and for those interested in ASL Studies.

_____ I approve _____ I disapprove

Signature: ______________________________________________________

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LSA Annual Meeting Questionnaire

In an effort to assess and improve the Society's Annual Meeting, the Executive Committee and Program Committee would appreciate your completing the following short questionnaire and returning it by 15 April 2001.

1. Professional status: ___ faculty (___tenured ___ untenured) ___student ___ administrator __Other: _________

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___ 2001 (Washington, DC) ___ 2000 (Chicago) ___ 1999 (Los Angeles) ___ 1998 (NY) ___ 1997 (Chicago)

___ symposia/workshops ___ regular sessions ___ posters ___ invited plenary addresses

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Errata--Honorary Members 2000

The Honorary Members list in the December 2000 LSA Bulletin is incomplete. We apologize for this oversight.Please add:

Bulletin

No. 171, March 2001 Copyright ©2001 by the Linguistic Society of America

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2000 Annual Report

A. Membership

B. Deaths

C. Elections

D. Audit Report

2001 Annual Meeting

Executive Committee Report

Decade of Behavior (2001 - 2010)

Annual Committee Reports--2000

Endangered Languages and Their Preservation

August Email Meeting

October Email Meeting

Workshop on Web-Based Language Documentation and Description

Language in the School Curriculum

Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics

Status of Women in Linguistics

Bulletin Board

Congratulations

Publisher Donations

Summer Institutes

In Memoriam

Grants

Civilian Research and Development Foundation

NSF--Cognitive Neuroscience

NSF--ADVANCE Program

Sociological Initiatives Foundation

Nota Bene

Jefferson Day 2001: Advocacy for the Humanities

Acknowledgements

Forthcoming Conferences

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Total $325,21 $407,733 $412,940 $378,493 $373,443

2001 Summer Linguistic Institute University of California-Santa Barbara

2002 Linguistic Summer Program University of Düsseldorf 15 July - 3 August 2002

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Errata--Honorary Members 2000

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Copyright ©2001 by the Linguistic Society of America

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Decade of Behavior
(2001 - 2010)

2001 Summer Linguistic Institute
University of California-Santa Barbara

2002 Linguistic Summer Program
University of Düsseldorf
15 July - 3 August 2002