LSA Update #197: #LSA2021, Awards, Publications, and More!

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Update #197 - December 28, 2020

In This Issue: Support Linguistics Scholarship Donate Today with a Year-End Donation to the #LSA2021 LSA Language Online Publications News As 2020 draws to a close, Awards and Honors Major Gift please consider a charitable Webinars donation to one of the LSA's In Case You Missed It contribution funds. Read Linguistics in the News more about how to donate, and how a special provision of the US CARES Act allows donors to deduct charitable contributions from your federal income taxes. Donations to the LSA general fund are particularly helpful in sustaining the LSA's core mission. You can also Facebook Twitter support the LSA while shopping online, now and at any time of the year. Follow the LSA on social media!

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December Language Available Online The December 2020 issue of Language is available online at Project MUSE. Please see the Table of Contents, with clickable links to the latest research published in our flagship journal. To read the articles, you will need to be logged in using your institution's online credentials or the Project MUSE login portal for LSA members.

All LSA members have access to online issues of Language going back twenty years, to 2001.

Publications News The editorial team of Semantics & Pragmatics is pleased to announce that, as of January 1, 2021, the journal is moving from an optionally double- blind to a double-blind only reviewing policy, in line with other LSA journals. See our revised Peer Review Statement for details.

The editors of Language are pleased to announce the appointment of Jessi Grieser (University of Tennessee) as Book Review Editor, replacing outgoing Editor Lauren Squires (The Ohio State University). In addition the following have been appointed Associate Editors of the journal:

Lisa Cheng (University of Leiden) Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania) Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh)

Cheng, Tamminga, and Trousdale replace Khalil Iskarous (University of Southern California), Lisa Travis (McGill University), and David Willis (University of Oxford). The LSA thanks all the departing staff for their excellent service.

The 21st Century Index to Language has now been updated to include all content through calendar year 2020.

LSA Awards and Honors The LSA is delighted to announce the winners of several awards, including the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award. Meet the winners and read more about the awards.

In addition, nine LSA members will be inducted as Fellows in recognition of their distinguished contributions to the discipline. Read more about the new Fellows.

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Subscribe Past Issues Translate and Fellows will be inducted during the LSA Business Meeting on Friday, January 8 from 6:00 - 7:00 PM.

Major Gift Endows two New Awards The LSA is delighted to announce the endowment of two new awards through a major gift made by LSA Life Member Robert Vago (Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY). The two new awards will honor pioneering linguists Victoria Fromkin and Morris Halle Read more ...

Mark Your Calendar for TWO Meet-the-Authors Webinars Mark your calendars for not one, but TWO webinars where authors of articles in the December issue of Language will discuss their work.

On January 22, authors Diane Brentari (University of Chicago) and Terra Edwards (Saint Louis University), will discuss their article, FEELING PHONOLOGY: The conventionalization of phonology in protactile communities in the United States, which appeared in the December 2020 issue of the LSA's flagship journal, Language. Read more and sign up ...

Then, on February 12, authors Anne H. Charity Hudley (University of California, Santa Barbara), Christine Mallinson (University of Maryland Baltimore County), and Mary Bucholtz (University of California, Santa Barbara), will discuss their article, Toward racial justice in linguistics: Interdisciplinary insights into theorizing race in the discipline and diversifying the profession, from the Perspectives section of Language with some of their respondents. A sign-up link will be available in January.