- The LSA's 2009 Annual Meeting has been moved to San Francisco due to an ongoing labor dispute affecting the Portland Hilton. The host hotel will be the San Francisco Hilton. The LSA will enjoy the same excellent room rate--$99/night single or double, $129/night triple or quad--that we were to have had in Portland. More information
- Nominations for the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award are due 1 June, 2008.
- Nominations for the LSA's "Linguistics, Language and the Public" Award will be accepted until 1 June, 2008.
2007 Annual Meeting: Brief Report
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society was held 4-7 January 2007 at the Hilton Anaheim, CA. The LSA was joined by the American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, and the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, and the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Approximately 1075 linguists attended over 100 sessions. Highlights of the program included Sally McConnell-Ginet's Presidential Address and plenary presentations by Ed Keenan, Mark Liberman, and Carol Padden. A special feature of this year's program was a session, organized by Ellen Kaisse and Larry Hyman, entitled "Phonology: An Appraisal of the Field in 2007."
