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The first meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) took place on 28 December 1924, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. [1] The society met biannually until 1982, meeting once in the summer in conjunction with the Linguistic Institute and once in the winter.
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for linguistics founded in December 1924. At the first meeting, the LSA membership elected Hermann Collitz as their first president. Since then, there have been 101 presidencies, with 100 different presidents. [Note 1] Under the constitution and bylaws of the organization, the ...
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Pike was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS), and the American Anthropological Association. He served as president of LSA and LACUS and later was nominated for the Templeton Prize three years in a row. [6]
For the Linguistic Society of America, she served as a member of the Executive Committee from 1930 to 1934, as vice-president in 1940, and as president in 1946. [1] She was the first woman to serve as LSA president. [4]
At the society's annual meeting in 1995, Hale delivered a presidential address on universal grammar and the necessity of linguistic diversity. [8] Hale was also appointed to the LSA's Edward Sapir Professorship in 1995. [9] In May 2003, after Hale's death, the LSA's executive committee established a professorship in field methods in his name ...
Emeneau served as president of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 1949 as well as serving as editor of the Society's journal, Language. In 1952 he served as president of the American Oriental Society .
First edition Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, September 1920. Second edition Philadelphia: Linguistic Society of America, University of Pennsylvania, 1940. Sturtevant, E. H. (March 1926). "On the Position of Hittite among the Indo-European Languages". Language. 2 (1): 25– 34. doi:10.2307/408784. JSTOR 408784.