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.