<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div>Just a reminder that the LSA's community linguist award nominations are due on July 1st. Please see the details in this email (or on the LSA's CELP blog at <a href="http://lsacelp.org">lsacelp.org</a>) for more information.</div>
<div>Claire<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Robinson, Director of Membership and Meetings</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lsa@lsadc.org">lsa@lsadc.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:49 AM<br>Subject: Call for LSA Award Nominations<br>To: <a href="mailto:claire.bowern@yale.edu">claire.bowern@yale.edu</a><br><br><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif">Dear LSA member,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif"> </p>
<p style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:10pt"><span>Nominations for the following awards are due to the Secretariat by the close of business on Tuesday, July 1. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of the following awards, which honor contributions made by LSA members to the Society, to the discipline of linguistics, to language communities or to the public understanding of our work. </span></p>
<ul><li style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-size:10pt"><span>the Early Career Award, given for a new scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of linguistics;</span></li>
<li style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-size:10pt"><span>the Excellence in Community Linguistics Award, for outstanding contributions that members of language communities (typically outside the academic sphere of professional linguists) make for the benefit of their community's language;</span></li>
<li style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-size:10pt"><span>the Kenneth L. Hale Award, for outstanding linguistic scholarship undertaken by a junior or senior scholar that documents a particular endangered or no longer spoken language or language family;</span></li>
<li style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-size:10pt"><span>the Linguistic Service Award, for distinguished service to the Society and the discipline;</span></li>
<li style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-size:10pt">the newly-established Linguistics Journalism Award, which honors the journalist whose work, published between June 1, 2013 and May 31, 2014, best represents linguistics; </li>
<li style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-size:10pt"><span>the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award, for a body of work that has had a demonstrable impact on the public awareness of language and/or linguistics; and</span></li>
<li style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-size:10pt"><span>the Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award, for individuals who have performed extraordinary service to the Society and the discipline throughout their career.</span></li>
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<p style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;color:black;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:10pt"><span>To nominate yourself or a colleague for any of these awards, send an e-mail to<span> </span><a style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" shape="rect" href="mailto:lsa@lsadc.org?subject=2015%20Award%20Nomination" target="_blank">lsa@lsadc.org</a><span> </span>by the July 1 deadline with the words "2015 Award Nomination" in the subject line. Other details, including nomination requirements for the specific awards, are available <a style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001MstRrIgVWzcQ_6OZzFPHOEDB_ZcvdGV0-wu95jkKFuEAJYuMsINxScZKCP-_UpRLWdy4jLRs3ikbAtocGuWFSRETUQA0LtWjyBRUwAkC8p9oPktieGfbQoqX-9cJYM8ZcVSQJHJuWBOiZyz6VTPK37ipWdHCkG--CsfdfbdE70u0_aVg66C3f3L_sbUNFfy2qyMw8A8Sr4e_BzS-UJaugezZ1JZVwogu&c=V4Q9G-vl3-hqVW8c2CMcdA-Xr7Wixha8syuyRfh4J3sD1DkpeV0Vbw==&ch=v_G_dYNNdXu9DQu6MougbAsvBMaEwNl4_hdP1RZRjGVOJFCiXAlGvw==" shape="rect" target="_blank">here</a>. Awards will be presented during a ceremony preceding the Presidential Address at the LSA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, January 10.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:10pt">Please note that this Call does <strong>not</strong> include the following awards: The Leonard Bloomfield Book Award (which is awarded by a separate committee); the Best Article in <em>Language</em> Award (all articles in the the current volume of the journal are automatically considered); and the Student Abstract Award (all Annual Meeting abstracts authored solely by students are eligible). </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:10pt">We look forward to receiving your nominations by July 1. Please contact <a style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" href="mailto:lsa@lsadc.org?subject=Question%20about%20LSA%20Awards" shape="rect" target="_blank">lsa@lsadc.org</a> if you have any questions about the awards or the nominations process. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:10pt">Sincerely, </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:10pt">David Robinson</p>
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