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

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

Victoria Fromkin Victoria Alexandra Fromkin (; May 16, 1923 – January 19, 2000) was an American linguistics, linguist who taught at UCLA. She studied slips of the tongue, mishearing, and other speech errors, which she applied to phonology, the study of how the ...

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 The LINGUIST List is an online resource for the academic field of linguistics. It was founded by Anthony Aristar in early 1990 at the University of Western Australia, and is used as a reference by the National Science Foundation in the United S ...

(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 investigator ...

(2003) *

Eugene Nida Eugene Albert Nida (November 11, 1914August 25, 2011) was an American linguist who developed the dynamic equivalence theory of Bible translation and is considered one of the founders of modern translation studies. Life Nida was born in Oklah ...

(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 No ...

(2005) * Margaret W. Reynolds (2006) * N. Louanna Furbee (2007) * D. Terence Langendoen (2010) * Donna Christian (2011) * Stephen R. Anderson (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). She is known as a pioneer in the field of formal semantics. Biography Bo ...

(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 ...

(2017) *

Sarah Thomason Sarah "Sally" Thomason (; born 1939) is an American scholar of linguistics, Bernard Bloch distinguished professor emerita at the University of Michigan. She is best known for her work on language contact, historical linguistics, pidgins and cr ...

(2018) *

Larry Hyman Larry M. Hyman (born September 26, 1947, in Los Angeles, California) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in phonology and has particular interest in African languages. Educ ...

(2021)

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

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