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With gratitude, the Society acknowledges the following gifts received from our donors. The contributions of members wishing to remain anonymous are also acknowledged with thanks. If you made a contribution to the LSA and your name does not appear as a supporter, please accept our apologies and thanks. Be sure to let the Secretariat know so that our records can be corrected. The Linguistic Society is a nonprofit organization exempt under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The LSA Federal Identification Number is 74-604-3371. As a nonprofit organization, the LSA may qualify for corporate donation-matching programs. Your gift, large or small, will make a difference and will be gratefully received.
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Leadership Circle
The LSA Leadership Circle was created in October, 2008, to recognize those LSA members who have made large, unrestricted, charitable contributions to the LSA. Read more...
Gifts to LSA Contribution Funds in 2011
Karen L. Adams, Shanley Allen, Shannon Anderson-Finch, Sharon Ash, Ashley Asker, Collin F. Baker, Marlyse Baptista, F.B. Bart, Jill Beckman, Jill Beckman, Tina L. Bennett-Kastor, Johanna Biebesheimer, Matthew Cooper Borkenhagen, Toni Borowsky, Christopher H. Brew, Julia Brittain, Maria Z. Brooks, Mary Bucholtz, Lyle R. Campbell, Gregory Carlson, Katy Carlson, Mary Carroll, Irene Checa-Garcia, Shobhana L. Chelliah, Qinger Chen, Arlene D. Clacher, Professor R. Coates, Linda K. Coleman, Dr. KA.A. Cormier, Erin Cross, Susan Curtiss, Stuart Davis, Stuart Davis, Brent Dechene, Marianna Di Paolo, Sandra Dickinson, Goldie A. Dooley, Laura Jo Downing, B Elan Dresher, Susan Fischer, Michael J. Flynn, Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, Elaine J. Francis, Hartwell Francis, Maria Cristina Gatti, Alexia Gilmore, Heather Goad, Adele Goldberg, Louis Goldstein, Lynn Gordon, Hans Gotzsche, Maja Grujic-Stojkov, Gregory R. Guy, Joan Houston Hall, Christopher Hamill, Wayne E. Harbert, Daniel Harbour, Michael V. Hegarty, Michael Henderson, Diana Hill, Jane H. Hill, Lewis C. Howe, Eric J. Hyman, Fatma Ismail, Pauline Jacobson, Jeri Jaeger, Brian D. Joseph, George Williams, Jr., Hayriye Karliova, Thomas King, Mike Klein, Michael Kunz, Raymond La Verghetta, D Robert Ladd, M. Laughren, Ruth C. Loew, Carolyn MacKay, Ian Maddieson, Richard P. Meier, Marilyn Merritt, Miriam Meyerhoff, Elliott Moreton, P C Muysken, Naomi Nagy, Kristin R Necaise , Frank Nuessel, Sharon Obeidallah, Janna B. Oetting, Carol A. Padden, Victor Palermo, Efthyvoulos Phoevos Panagiotidis, Pedro Mateo Pedro , John W. Pennisten, Terrence M. Potter, Albert C. Remijsen, Keren Rice, Sally Rice, Claudia Ross, Anisa Schardi, Charles T. Scott, Louis E. McNally Seifert, Rebecca Starr, Diana Stojanovic, Masanori Suiko, Eve E. Sweetser, Shlaowei Tham, Pang-Hsin Ting, Satoshi Tomioka, Frank R. Trechsel, Katherine Truax, Marine Vullermet, Rose-Marie Weber, Ronnie Wilbur, Renate Wild, George Wilmes, Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Jay Yamada, Noriko Yoshimura, Karl Zimmer, and Anonymous (10).
This list reflects contributions through November 1, 2011.
Gifts to LSA Contribution Funds in 2010
Arthur Abramson, Anas Abu-mansour, Mahasen Abu-mansour, Shanley Allen, Shannon Anderson-Finch, Richard W. Bailey, Frederick B. Bart, Jason Bishop, Lyle R. Campbell, Irene Checa-Garcia, Hagege Claude, Richard A. Coates, Harold C. Conklin, K A Cormier, Francois Dell, Amanda Evans, Charles Fillmore, Susan D. Fischer, Eileen Fitzpatrick, Alice F. Freed, Nonie L. Furbee, Dr. Jean Berko Gleason, Jared Golant, Rennie Gonsalves, Matthew Gordon, Gregory R. Guy, Michael Hegarty, Irene Heim, Michael M.T. Henderson, Jane H. Hill, Grover M. Hudson, Noboru Ito, Patricia Keating, Kuong Io Kei, Samuel J. Keyser, Scott Kiesling, Thomas King, Tracy Holloway King, Seong Y. Ko, Michael Krauss, Howard Kurtzman, D Robert Ladd, Mary Laughren, Ilse Lehiste, Timothy & Joy Light, Liping Liu, Theraphan Luangthongkum, Doris Macdonald, William MacKey, Ian Maddieson, Hubert Matthews, James McCloskey, June Rumery McKay, Mairi McLaughlin, Miriam Meyerhoff, Lew R. Micklesen, Emanuela Mileva, Edith A. Moravcsik, Elliiott Moreton, Pieter Muysken, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Claudia Parodi-Lewin, Massimo Piattelli, Glynn Piggott, Sally Rice, Catherine L. Rogers, Phillip E. Rubin, Catherine Rudin, Valerie Shafer, Chih-hsiang Shu, Diana Stojanovic, Jane H. Stuart-Smith, Eve E. Sweetser, Kristen Syrett, Jacqueline Thrash, Lenora A. Timm, Laurel Watkins, Amy Weinberg, Ronnie Wilbur, Patrice Williams, Noriko Yoshimura, Annette M. Zehler.
Gifts to LSA Contribution Funds in 2009
Barbara Abbott, Arthur Abramson, Karen L. Adams, Rizwan Ahmad, Janet Anderson, Joseph Aoun, David Appling, Engin Arik, Barbara Assadi, Julie Auger, Peter K. Austin, Melissa Axelrod, Richard Bailey, Frederick B. Bart, John Baugh, James J. Bauman, Paul C. Bauschatz, Jill Beckman, Mary Beckman, Anthony Beltramo, Elena E. Benedicto, Richard Beym, Jason B Bishop, Jonathan Bobaljik, Jurgen Bohnemeyer, John P. Boyle, Christopher H. Brew, Mary Bucholtz, Gualtiero Calboli, Edward Callary, Jose Camacho, Kathryn Carlson, Andrew Carnie, Donna Christian, Marybeth Clark, George Clements, Linda K. Coleman, Ellen Contini-Morava, Marianne Cooley, Dr. K A Cormier, Mary Dalrymple, Stuart Davis, Alice L. Davison, M Francois Dell, Jeffrey Denniston, Marianna Di Paolo, Andrew Dolbey, Osmond Duffis-Sjogren, Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, Penelope Eckert, Fred R. Eckman, Jerold A. Edmondson, Christopher Ifeanyi Eleodimuo, Robert Englebretson, III, Daniel Everett, Lindsay Everett, Leonard M. Faltz, Ralph Fasold, Michael Flynn, Janet D. Fodor, Elaine Francis, Hartwell Francis, B M Frellesvig, Stefan Frisch, N. Louanna Furbee, MaryEllen Garcia, Edward J Garrett, Maria Cristina Gatti, Eddy Gaytan, Alexandropoulos Georgios, Heather Goad, Adele Goldberg, Louis Goldstein, Rennie Gonsalves, Lynn Gordon, Hans Gotzsche, Frans Gregersen, Maja Grujic-Stojkov, Takao Gunji, Mark Hale, Daniel Hall, Christopher Hamill, Eric P. Hamp, Camber Hansen-Karr, Wayne Harbert, Nils Hasselmo, Christina Healy, Michael M T Henderson, Caitlin Hennessey, Jane H. Hill, Frans Hinskens, Robert Hoberman, Julie Hochgesang, Gary Holland, Stephanie Holton, Jose I. Hualde, Grover M. Hudson, Elizabeth Hume, Eric Hyman, Frances Ingemann, Masahide Ishihara, Pauline Jacobson, Alana Johns, Brian Jose, Brian Joseph, Ellen Kaisse, Jeffrey Kallen, Kiyoko Kataoka, Joan Katsareas, Steven Hartman Keiser, James C. King, Thomas King, Sharon Klein, Jaklin Kornfilt, Kalyan Krishnamurthy, D Robert Ladd, D. Terence Langendoen, Beth Levin, Andrea Levitt, Diane Lillo-Martin, Ying-Yu Lin, Barbara Lust, Monica Macaulay, Carolyn MacKay, Joseph Malone, Stuart Marks, Hubert Matthews, Claude Mauk, Harvey E. Mayer, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Theresa McGarry, Louise McNally, Richard P. Meier, Craig Melchert, Paula Menyuk, Miriam Meyerhoff, Dimitris Michelloudakis, Jeffrey Mielke, Shigeru Miyagawa, Burckhard Mohr, Werther Montanari, Victoria Muehleisen, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Stanley Murai, Carol Myers-Scotton, Naomi G. Nagy, Heizo Nakajima, Geoffrey Nathan, Hiroyuki Nawata, Klara Nazmutdinova, Nassira Nicola, Sharon Obeidallah, Terence Odlin, Arika Okrent, Efthyvoulos Panagiotidis, Fey Parill, Thomas E Payne, Stephanie H. Pellet, John Pennisten, David Pesetsky, Betty Phillips, Massimo Plattelli, Steve Poteet, Cecilia Quansah, David Quinto-Pozos, Janet H. Randall, Robert Rankin, Martha Ratliff, Keren Rice, David Robinson, Robert Rodman, Catherine L. Rogers, Suzanne Romaine, Sharon Rose, Claudia N. Ross, Gil Ruman, C.A. Rytting, Joseph Salmons, Gillian Sankoff, Leslie Adele Saxon, William Schmidt, Marc L. Schnitzer, Sonja Lanehart Schutz, Aviva Shimelman, Hidetoshi Shirai, Roger Shuy, Jeffrey A. Siegel, Muffy E. Siegel, A Simonenko, Dan I Slobin, Jennifer Smith, Catherine Snow, Sara Snyder, Stephanie Solt, Susana M. Sotillo, Margaret J. Speas, William Spruiell, Mark Steedman, Kenneth N. Stevens, Masanori Suiko, Jae-Hyun Sung, Eve E. Sweetser, Marie-Lucie Tarpent, Craig Thiersch, Susan Thomas, Lucy Thomason, Sandra Thompson, Frank R. Trechsel, Lenora A. Timm, Edward Tuttle, Robert Vago, J K Varden, Irene Vogel, Joseph Voyles, Laura Wagner, Calvert Watkins, Laurel Watkins, Bonnie Webber, Ronnie Wilbur, Gladys R. Wilkerson, Wendy Wilkins, George Williams, Jr., Kimberly Witten, Toya A Wyatt, Akira Yamamoto, Martha Young-Scholtan, Karen T Zagona, Mary Zeigler.
Gifts to LSA Contribution Funds in 2008
Jessi Aaron, Barbara Abbott, Karen Adams, Gregory Anderson, Barbara Assadi, Julie Auger, Douglas Ball, Charles Barrack, Michael Barrie, Frederick Bart, Emily Bender, Catie Berkenfield, Balthasar Bickel, J. Albert Bickford, Zachary Brooks, Mary Bucholtz, H. W. Buckingham, Rafael Buitrago, Susan Burt, Jose Camacho, R. Joe Campbell, Jose Centeno, Paul Chapin, Joan Chen-Main, Alan Cienki, Joseph Clements, Richard Coates, Felice Coles, Ellen Contini-Morava, Donald Cooper, Kearsy Cormier, Bert Cornillie, Susan Curtiss, Karen Dakin, Stuart Davis, Scott DeLancey, Marianna Di Paolo, Emanuel Drechsel, B. Elan Dresher, Osmond Duffis-Sjogren, Timothy Eagan, Penelope Eckert, Martin Edwardes, Bruno Estigarribia, Lindsay Everett, Jelena Filipovic, Susan Fischer, Colleen Fitzgerald, Janet Fodor, Elaine Frances, Hartwell Francis, Christian Free, Heather Goad, Grandon Goertz, Adele Goldberg, Diana Gonzalez, Georgia Green, Lisa Green, Maja Grujic-Stojkov, Jeanette Gundel, Gregory Guy, Chryso Hadjidemetriou, Robert Hagiwara, Camber Hansen-Karr, Wayne Harbert, Alice Harris, Kirk Hazen, Irene Heim, Jane Hill, Leanne Hinton, Hans Hock, C. M. T. Hogan, Kazuaki Hojo, Gary Holland, Sophy Huck, Martin Huld, Beth Hume, Eric Hyman, Monica-Alexandrina Irimia, Michael Israel, John Nerbonne, Michel Tah Tung Jackson, Pauline Jacobson, Jeri Jaeger, Sara Johansson, Alana Johns, A. K. Joshi, Matthew Juge, Ellen Kaisse, Jeffrey Kallen, Jason Kandybowicz, Melissa Kleis, Ettien Koffi, Jacklin Kornfilt, Angelika Kratzer, Io-Kei Joaquim Kuong, Carly Laminack, Sonja Lanehart, Yolanda Lastra, Raymond La Verghetta, Patricia Lessard, Steven Lulich, Monica Macaulay, Ronald Macaulay, Alessandro Maggi, Joseph Malone, Bruce Mannheim, Claudia Marquez, Michel Martinez, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Alexa McCray, Michael McIntyre, June McKay, Louise McNally, Jurgen Meisel, H. Craig Melchert, Dunia Mendez Vallejo, Rebecca Minor, Shigeru Miyagawa, Burckhard Mohr, Marlyse Baptista, Midori Morris, Salikoko Mufwene, Stanley Murai, Heizo Nakajima, Mineharu Nakayama, Patricia Nichols, Nassira Nicola, Lynette Nyaggah, Terence Odlin, Richard Oehrle, Michael O'Keefe, Neil Olsen, Ricardo Otheguy, Fey Parrill, Barbara Partee, Susan Penfield, Massimo Poesio, Steve Poteet, Diane Prange, David Quinto-Pozos, Martha Ratliff, Laura Ray, Elizabeth Riddle, Joely Rogers, Claudia Ross, Catherine Rudin, Anton Rytting, Liliana Sanchez, Aviva Shimelman, Muffy Siegel, Jane Simpson, Dan Slobin, Catherine Snow, Hyowon Song, Antonella Sorace, Lauren Squires, Kenneth Stevens, Diana Stojanovic, Daniel Suslak, Virginia Teller, Marcus Templar, Jacqueline Thrash, J. Marshall Unger, Virginia Valian, Miako Villanueva, Michael Wagner, Lo Wing Wah, Caiwen Wang, Laurel Watkins, Amy Weinberg, Cintia Widmann, Thomas Wier, George Williams Jr., Patrice Williams, Donald Winford, Richard Wright, Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Akira Yamamoto, Makoto Yamazaki, Sally Yoo, Noriko Yoshimura, Martha Young-Scholten, Mary Zeigler, Jack Zeldis.
Gifts to LSA Contribution Funds in 2007
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Gifts to LSA Contribution Funds in 2006
Contributions to the Ken Hale Chair
Arthur S. Abramson, Douglas Ball, Matthew Bradley, Noam Chomsky, Bert Cornillie, Stuart Davis, Francois Dell, Richard Diebold, Suzanne Flynn, Alice C. Harris, Robert Hoberman, C. T. James Huang, Matthew Juge, Ellen Kaisse, Ilse Lehiste, Beth Levin, Craig Melchert, Richard Oehrle and Susan Steele, Barbara Partee, Martha Ratliff, Iggy Roca, Jeff Siegel, Jane Simpson, George M. Williams, Anthony Woodbury.
Founding Donors, Ken Hale Chair
Arthur S. Abramson, Carolyn Adger, Stephen Anderson, Mark Aronoff/Frances Kelley, Mark Baker, Joan Bybee, Wallace Chafe/Marianne Mithun, Paul Chapin, Noam Chomsky, Donna Christian, Bernard Comrie, Katherine Demuth, Richard Diebold/Salus Mundi Foundation, Dan Everett, Charles Fillmore, Jean Berko Gleason, Sarah Hale, Morris Halle, Irena Heim, C-T James Huang, Sabine Iatridou, Ray Jackendoff, S. Jay Keyser, Robert King, D. Terence Langendoen, Ilse Lehiste, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Department of Linguistics and the Dean), Sally McConnell-Ginet, Alexa McCray, Shigeru Miyagawa, Bhuvaneswari Narasimhan, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Barbara Partee, Steven Pinker, Maria Polinsky, Iggy Roca, Robert Rodman, Lisa Selkirk, Susan Steele/Richard Oehrle, James Tai, Sarah G. Thomason, Elizabeth C. Traugott, Gregory Ward, Tom Wasow, Calvert Watkins, Rosemarie Weber, Bonnie Webber/Mark Steedman, Walt Wolfram, Moira Yip, Arnold M. Zwicky.
Gifts to LSA Contribution Funds
Barbara Abbott, Shanley Allen, Gregory Anderson, David Appling, James L. Armagost, Sherry Ash, Charles Atherton, Collin Baker, Douglas Ball, Charles Barrack, Michael Barrie, Mary Beckman, Emily Bender, Paola Bentivoglio, Catie Berkenfield, Balthasar Bickel, J. Albert Bickford, Garland D. Bills, Jason Bishop, Juliette Blevins, Jurgen Bohnemeyer, Yuvraj Brahmin, Laurel Brinton, Ellen Broselow, Rebecca Burns, Susan Burt, Katy Carlson, Paul Chapin, Kui Soon Choe, Donna Christian, Timothy Clausner, George N. Clements, Felice A. Coles, Stuart Davis, Bruce Downing, Emanual Dreschsel, Bethany Dumas, Thomas Eichman, Nora England, Robert Englebretson, Bruno Estigarribia, Ralph Fasold, Susan Fischer, David Fiske, Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, Elaine J. Francis, Bjarke Frellesvig, Louanna Furbee, Carol Genetti, Anastasia Giannakidou, Carl Ginet and Sally McConnell-Ginet Ginet, Heather Goard, Chris Golston, Diana Gonzalez, Georgia Morgan Green, Lisa Green, Frans Gregersen, Allen Grimshaw, Stephen Gross, Maja Gruijic-Stojkov, Takao Gunji, Chryso Hadjidemetriou, Lauren A. Hall-Lew, Camber Hansen-Karr, Alice Harris, Martin Haspelmath, Midori Hayashi, Kirk Hazen, Irene Heim, Michael Hewitt, Natsuko Hidaka, Jane Hill, Gary Holland, Amy Maya Honda, C.T. James T. Huang, Beth Hume, Morgan Hunter, Eric Hyman, Masahide Ishihara, Michel Tah Tung Jackson, Jeri J. Jaeger, Alessandro Jaker, Brian Joseph, Matthew Juge, Ellen Kaisse, Jeffrey Kallen, Joshua Katz, Brittany Kelley, Paula Kempchinsky, Scott Kiesling, Thomas King, Sharon Klein, Ettien Koffi, Jaklin Kornflit, Raymond La Verghetta, Sonja Lanehart, Richard Larson, Mary Laughren, Marshall Lewis, Timothy & Joy Light, Diane Lillo-Martin, Stephanie Lindemann, Barbara Lust, Monica Macaulay, Doris M.V. Macdonald, Ian Maddieson, Bruce Mannheim, Jane & Christopher Manning, Claude Mauk, John J. McCarthy, III, Alexa McCray, Louise McNally, Jurgen Meisel, Wolfgang Meyer, Miriam Meyerhoff, Scott Meyers, Amanda Miller, Burckhard Mohr, Midori Morris, Victoria Muehleisen, Pieter Muysken, James T. Myers, Scott Myers, Naomi Nagy, Geoffrey Nathan, John Nerbonne, Patricia Nichols, Michael C. O'Keefe, Mari Olsen, Neil Olsen, Carol Padden, Efthyvoulos Panagiotidis, Claudia Parodi-Lewin, Fey Parrill, Paola Andriani Pasetto, David Pesetsky, Christopher Potts, David Prange, Chen Qu, Robert Rankin, Keren Rice, Sally Rice, John R. Rickford, Robert Rodman, Mary Rose, Sharon Rose, C. Anton Rytting, Joseph Salmons, Aviva Shimelman, Jeff Siegel, David Silva, Jane Simpson, Jennifer Smith, Stephanie Solt, Hyowon Song, Antonella Sorace, Melissa Stamer, Markus Steinbach, Helen Stickney, Andrei Stoevsky, Laurel Stvan, Seichi Sugawa, Virginia Teller, Kanjana Thepboriruk, Marshall Unger, Robert Vago, Marina Van den Handel, Raymond Verghetta, Miako Villanueva, Catherine von Schon, Laura Wagner, Michael Wagner, Lo Wing Wah, Michael Wallace, Denise Walters, Ann Wehmeyer, Thomas Wier, Stewart Willcutt, Andrew Wilson, Donald C. Winford, Margaret Winters, Walt Wolfram, Akira Yamamoto, Tongyin Yang, Laurie Zaring, Mary Zeigler, Jack Zeldis, Leyla Zidani-Eroglu, Yael Ziv, Kie Zuraw.
Life Members
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