Take Note!
- Meeting registration and hotel reservations for the 2011 Annual Meeting are available online through December 20.
- Nominations for the LSA's new Early Career Award are due at the Secretariat by September 15th.
- Did you know that Classic Monographs of the LSA are available through the Society for a fraction of their cost elsewhere? Read more …
LSA News
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2010 Annual Meeting
The 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America will be held 7-10 January 2010 at the Hilton Baltimore. The LSA will be joined by the American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, 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. Program items will include 36 concurrent sessions, 11 organized sessions, and 7poster sessions (including a special Linguists in Government poster session) in addition to a Presidential Address, 3 plenary addresses, an invited plenary symposium on Language Documentaion, a grad student panel, a department chair round table, and a President's Reception.LSA Awards and Honors
The Linguistic Society is pleased to announce recipients of its 2010 awards. The awardees, who will be honored at a ceremony on Saturday 9 January in the Holiday Ballroom at 5:30 p.m., are:Terence Langendoen (National Science Foundation): the Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award; Ethan Poole (University of Minnesota), the LSA's Volunteer Webmaster: the Linguistic Service Award; Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University): the Linguistics, Language and the Public Award; Pamela Munro (University of California, Los Angeles) and Catherine Willmond, Let's Speak Chickasaw, Chikashshanompa' Kilanompoli' (University of Oklahoma Press): the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award.The LSA is also delighted to announce the election of the 2010 class of LSA Fellows. Fellows are chosen by the at-large members of the Executive Committee from nominations submitted by LSA members, in recognition of the distinguished contributions they have made to the discipline. LSA officers are also recognized as Fellows after the conclusion of their terms of service. The 2010 LSA Fellows, who will be inducted during a ceremony at the LSA Business Meeting, which begins on Friday, 8 January at 5:15 p.m. in Holiday 6, are Peter Culicover (The Ohio State University), Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago), Brian Joseph (The Ohio State University), Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania), John Ohala (University of California, Berkeley), Stan Peters (Stanford University), Ellen Prince (University of Pennsylvania), and John Rickford (Stanford University). Honorary members will also be announced at the Business Meeting.
On-line Membership Renewal
You can renew your LSA membership on-line! Click here and follow the simple instructions. Members will also be able to make contributions to LSA funds when renewing.2010 Membership Dues
U.S. Addresses:Regular Members: $95Non-U.S. Addresses:
Student Members: $40
Regular Members: $105
Student Members: $50
LSA News Archives
Click here to see the LSA News Archives.In Memoriam
It is with regret that we announce the death of the following members and former members. (Contact David Robinson, Director of Membership and Meetings, to contribute short obituaries about LSA members to supplement the information below.)Werner Winter, a member since 1949 and an Honorary Member since 1984, died 7 August 2010. Read more...
Walter Lehn, a Life Member of the LSA, died 7 October 2009.
Nils Erik Enkvist, a member since 1966, died 26 May 2009.
Norman McQuown, a member since 1937, died 7 September 2005. Read more...
Jin Soon Cha, a member since 1984, died 25 January 2010.
Henry Edwin "Hank" Rogers, a member since 1962, died 2 February 2010. Read more...
Christina Kakava, a member since 1989, died 20 February 2010. Read more...
Charles Ruhl, a former member of the Society, died 25 December 2010. Read more...
Margaret Wade-Lewis died 30 December 2009. Read more...
Samuel E. Martin died 28 November 2009. Read more...
Eva Sivertsen, a member since 1954, died November 22, 2009.
Dell Hymes, a member since 1953 and a past president (1982) of the Society, died November 13, 2009.
George N. Clements, a member since 1972, died August 30, 2009.
Herbert Izzo, a member since 1956, died May 12, 2009.
Sige-Yuki Kuroda, a member since 1959, died February 25, 2009. Read more ...
Michael Noonan, a member since 1985, died February 23, 2009.
Eleanor H. Jordan, a member since 1944, died February 11, 2009.
Toru Kono, a member since 1960, died January 29, 2009.
Paulette Hopple, a member since 1986, died December 18, 2008.
Isidore Dyen, a member since 1934, died December 14, 2008.
Lukas Tsitsipis, an LSA member since 1981, died September 14, 2008.
Laurence Urdang, a member since 1953, died August 21, 2008.
Austin Sawicki, an LSA member since 2006, died May 29th, 2008. Read more...
Rulon S. Wells III, a member since 1944, former President (1976) and LSA Fellow (class of 2006), died 3 May 2008. Read more...
Bruce G. Campbell, a member since 1970, died 31 March 2008. Read more...
Blair Rudes died 16 March 2008. An internationally known linguist and expert in American Indian languages, Dr. Rudes served on the faculty of UNC Charlotte since 1999, and joined the LSA in 2002. Read more...
Steven Gross, a member of the LSA since 1997, died 8 March 2008.
Click here to see In Memoriam Archives.
