The Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award is an award named after

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

Victoria Fromkin that is given to a member of the

Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: ''Language'', ...

who has performed "extraordinary service to the discipline and to the Society" throughout their career. First presented in 2001, the award is presented annually.

Recipients

* Paul Chapin (2001) * Kathleen Fenton (2002) *

Anthony Aristar Anthony M. Aristar (born 1948 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a linguist, the founder of the LINGUIST List, an important linguistic resource on the web, and a professor emeritus of linguistics at Eastern Michigan University. Studies Aristar rece ...

(2003) *

Helen Aristar-Dry Helen Aristar-Dry is an American linguist who currently serves as the series editor for SpringerBriefs in Linguistics. Most notably, from 1991 to 2013 she co-directed The LINGUIST List with Anthony Aristar. She has served as principal investigato ...

(2003) * Eugene Nida (2004) *

Ivan Sag Ivan Andrew Sag (November 9, 1949 – September 10, 2013) was an American linguist and cognitive scientist. He did research in areas of syntax and semantics as well as work in computational linguistics. Personal life Born in Alliance, Ohio on N ...

(2005) *

Margaret W. Reynolds Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular througho ...

(2006) *

N. Louanna Furbee N is the fourteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. N or n may also refer to: Mathematics * \mathbb, the set of natural numbers * N, the field norm * N for ''nullae'', a rare Roman numeral for zero * n, the size of a statistical sample Sc ...

(2007) *

D. Terence Langendoen D. or d. may refer to, usually as an abbreviation: * Don (honorific), a form of address in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and their former overseas empires, usually given to nobles or other individuals of high social rank. * Date of death, as an abbreviati ...

(2010) *

Donna Christian Donna may refer to the short form of the honorific ''nobildonna'', the female form of Don (honorific) in Italian. People *Donna (given name); includes name origin and list of people and characters with the name * Roberto Di Donna (born 1968), Ita ...

(2011) *

Stephen R. Anderson Stephen Robert Anderson (born 1943) is an American linguist. He is the Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at Yale University and was the 2007 president of the Linguistic Society of America. He received a B.S. in linguistics from ...

(2014)Zentz, Jason(September 17, 2013).
2014 Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award goes to Steve Anderson
, ''Yale University Linguistics News''. Accessed: 23 July 2019. *

Barbara Partee Barbara Hall Partee (born June 23, 1940) is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). Biography Born in Englewood, New Jersey, Partee grew up in the Baltimore ...

(2016)Victoria Fromkin Lifetime Service Award Previous Winners
, ''LinguisticSociety.org''. Accessed: 23 July 2019. *

Roger Shuy Roger Wellington Shuy (born January 5, 1931 in Akron, Ohio) is an American linguist best known for his work in sociolinguistics and forensic linguistics. He received his BA from Wheaton College in 1952, his MA from Kent State University in 1954 ...

(2017) * Sarah Thomason (2018) * Larry Hyman (2021)

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American awards Linguistic Society of America Awards established in 2001 2001 establishments in the United States {{award-stub

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