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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.
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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 ...
Syrett is a prominent figure in the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), having been twice awarded the Linguistic Service Award, first in 2007 and again as a co-awardee in 2020. [6] In 2018, she received the Early Career Award from the LSA, which recognizes "scholars early in their career who have made outstanding contributions to the field of ...
Logo of the Linguistic Society of America. The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded at the end of 1924 in New York City, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The Society publishes two scholarly journals, Language and the open access journal Semantics and Pragmatics ...
From 1988 to 1994 she was the editor of Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). In 1999 she was the Collitz Professor at the LSA summer institute. In 2006 she was elected a Fellow of the LSA, [10] and in 2009 she served as President of the LSA. [11]
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]
Born in Alliance, Ohio on November 9, 1949, [1] [2] Sag attended the Mercersburg Academy but was expelled shortly before graduation. [3] He received a BA from the University of Rochester, an MA from the University of Pennsylvania—where he studied comparative Indo-European languages, Sanskrit, and sociolinguistics—and a PhD from MIT in 1976, writing his dissertation (advised by Noam Chomsky ...