Eligibility

For all Fellowships:

  • Applicants must be LSA Student Members at the time of applying.
  • Successful recipients must enroll in four or more courses during the four weeks of the Institute.
  • Those who have received the Linguistic Institute Fellowships from the LSA to attend a previous Institute are not eligible to apply.

For the Charles Fillmore Student Fellowship:

  • The applicants must specialize in one of the following subfields: corpus linguistics, semantics, construction grammar, frame semantics, or computational linguistics.
  • Preference is given to applicants from the University of Minnesota, where Fillmore received his BA in Linguistics.

For the Yuki Kuroda Fellowship:

  • Applications are open to LSA Student Members who are Japanese linguistics students currently living/studying in Japan.
  • Preference will be given to Japanese students who haven't yet started a graduate program in linguistics in the US.

For the Bernard and Julia Bloch Fellowship:

  • Applicants must be currently enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students.
  • Applicants must not be from the hosting Institute.
  • Preference is given to Indigenous Scholars of the Americas who have a deep and personal connection to an Indigenous community of the Americas or the historically United States-affiliated Pacific and who are engaged in scholarship focused on the language(s) of that community.

For the Ivan Sag Linguistic Institute Fellowship:

  • Applicants must be currently enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students.

For the James McCawley Fellowship:

One fellowship is available for:
  • Either a graduate student from the University of Chicago, where McCawley attended
  • Or a graduate student from one of the following Asian countries: Burma, Cambodia, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

For the Ken Hale Student Fellowship

  • Applicants must be graduate students who are pursuing a course of study to document endangered languages and work with communities toward their preservation.

For the Warren Cowgill Fellowship

  • One fellowship is available for a student from a racial or ethnic background that has traditionally been under-represented in the field of linguistics, including African Americans, Latinx/Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islanders and those of mixed heritage.