The Chicago Linguistic Society (or CLS) is one of the oldest student-run organizations in the United States, based at the
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
. Although its exact foundation date is obscure, according to
Eric Hamp
Eric Pratt Hamp (November 16, 1920 – February 17, 2019) was an American linguist widely respected as a leading authority on Indo-European linguistics, with particular interests in Celtic languages and Albanian. Unlike many Indo-Europeanists, wh ...
it is generally believed to antedate the Second World War, and possibly extends back to
Bloomfield's and
Sapir's tenure at the University in the 1920s and 1930s.
Since 1965, CLS has run an annual conference that has received an international status in linguistics comparable to
BLS, the
LSA,
WCCFL and
NELS. Focus on syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, phonology, phonetics, and allied fields of cognitive and social sciences are presented at this conference. Special topics include Heritage Languages,
Speech Acts, and Resumptivity.
External links
The University of Chicago websiteThe Chicago Linguistic Society website
Linguistic societies
University of Chicago
Organizations based in Chicago
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