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 linguistic 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 American Indian candidates.
 

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 an Asian country. "Asian country" is defined as 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.