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April 5, 2002 BYBEE CHOSEN VICE PRESIDENT OF THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA Joan L. Bybee, University of New Mexico Regents' Professor and chair
of Linguistics, has been chosen the next vice president/president elect
of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), the national professional
linguistics organization. Bybee will serve as vice president of the 6,000-member organization in
2003 and as president in 2004. "I consider it a great honor to counted among the very distinguished
scholars who have served as president of the Linguistics Society of America,
a largely honorary position. I will preside over the business meeting
and the executive committee meetings and deliver the Presidential Address
at the annual meeting," Bybee says. Bybee is not the first person from UNM to hold this position. The late
Professor Stanley Newman of the Anthropology Department was chosen for
this position in 1979. Bybee received a Ph.D. in linguistics from UCLA in 1973 and was faculty
at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1973-1989. Now Regents'
Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UNM, she served as department
chair from 1999-2002 and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
from 1992-1993. In LSA, she has served on the program committee, executive committee
and was director of the 1995 LSA Linguistic Institute. She taught at the
several of the Linguistic Institutes, most recently in 2001. Bybee's research interests include theoretical issues in phonology, morphology, language universals and linguistic change. Her books include "Morphology,"1985, "The Evolution of Grammar," with Revere Perkins and William Pagliuca, 1994; and "Phonology and Language Use," published in 2001. # # # |
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