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Updates from and about LSA members

Received an honor or accolade? Published a new article or book? Quoted in a news piece? Got a promotion or a new job? Brought linguistic science to your community? We invite LSA members to share your good news with us via the Member portal.

Honors and awards

These honors and awards are accolades that our members have received from entities external to LSA. For LSA honors and awards, click here. 

  • SAMUEL JAY KEYSER has been awarded the 2025 Wilbur Cross Medal by the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The Wilbur Cross Medal, awarded annually each fall, is the highest honor the school bestows on its alumni. Keyser is professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and editor in chief of the journal Linguistic Inquiry.
  • BRIAN JOSEPH has been honored with the Brian D. Joseph Endowed Chair in Classics at College Year in Athens (CYA), endowed by a recent alumni donation. The chair, named in recognition of Joseph’s many contributions to the study of the Greek language, will bring a leading scholar to CYA to teach for up to three years. (2025) 

Prior years

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Books and volumes

  • RUDANKO, MARTTI JUHANI; RICKMAN, PAUL. 2025. Political Argumentation in Early America. Information Fallacies 1789 to 1800. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • MUFWENE, SALIKOKO. 2025. Ecological Perspectives on Language Endangerment and loss. Springer.
  • DEBOSE, CHARLES. 2025. Samana English: African American Language in the Dominican. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • BENDER, EMILY; HANNA, ALEX. 2025. The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. Harper Collins.
  • DE CHENE, BRENT. 2025. The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon. Evidence from Japanese verb morphology. Amsterdam: Benjamins.  
  • MUFWENE, SALIKOKO. 2024. Migrations humaines et évolution linguistique Les parcours des créoles et du français. Springer. 
  • CIENKI, ALAN. 2024. The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  • CLARK, EVE V. 2024. First Language Acquisition (4th edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. posted:230309
  • KENNEDY TERRY, KRISTEN; BAYLEY, ROBERT. 2024. Social network analysis in second language research: Theory and methods. New York: Routledge. 
  • STIRTZ, TIMOTHY; MICHAEL CAHILL; PHILIP DAVISON (eds.) 2024. LD&C Special Publication 29: Participatory Linguistics: Methods and Case Studies from Around the World. 
  • BARÐDAL, JÓHANNA. 2023. Oblique Subjects in Germanic. Their Status, History and Reconstruction. Belgium: De Gruyter Mouton. 
  • KALLEN, JEFFREY L. 2023. Linguistic Landscapes: A Sociolinguistic Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. posted:230309​

Research articles

  • TORRES, PETER JOSEPH. 2025. Race and gender disparities in pain treatment and opioid prescribing. Social Science & Medicine. 374. 
  • ABNER, NATASHA; GRÉGOIRE CLARTÉ; CARLO GERACI, ROBIN j. RYDER, JUSTINE MERTZ, ANAH SAIGAT, SHI YU. 2024. Computational phylogenetics reveal histories of sign languages. Science. 383(6682).519-523. 

Media mentions

  • TISTA BAGCHI in a livestreamed conversation with linguistics professor Anastasia Giannakidou, University of Chicago, during Session 3 titled "Research Methods in Linguistics: A Dialogue," hosted and broadcast on May 19, 2025, by the University of Chicago Center in Delhi, with live interdisciplinary audience participation from India, the USA, and other nations.
  • PETER JOSEPH TORRES in an interview on language of policies and interactions surrounding opioids with NPR'S "The Show" which aired in KJZZ 91.5 FM
  • ROSS PERLIN and DAN KAUFMAN in The Endangered Languages of New York. New York Times. Feb. 22, 2024. 

 

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In Memoriam 

Instructions for submissions: In Memoriam notices are ~500 words. They should focus on the subject’s professional life, including their influence on colleagues, institutions, their field, and the discipline. If possible, please include the date of death. The subject of the essay need not be an LSA member. Please submit a portrait photograph of the subject as a high-resolution digital image. Authors are responsible for all fact-checking and obtaining written permission to publish the subject's photo. Please contact lsa@lsadc.org.

Recent notices

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