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===Linguistic Institutes===
The LSA holds a four-week biennial Linguistic Institute in the summer which includes talks and coursework on various aspects of linguistics. Considered by the membership to be one of the most important services of the LSA,<ref>{{cite book|title=Linguistic Society of America Bulletin | number = 119 | year=1988 | page = 3}}</ref> the institute has helped influence the development of the field through promotion of new directions such as [[psycholinguistics]] and [[sociolinguistics]].<ref name=Falk2014>{{cite conference | last1 = Falk | first1 = Julia | title = The LSA Linguistic Institutes | book-title = Ninetieth Anniversary of the Linguistic Society of America: A Commemorative Symposium | conference = 2014 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America | publisher = Linguistic Society of America | date = 4 January 2014 | url = http://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/LSA-90%20Institutes.docx }}</ref> Each institute features a number of endowed chairs named after prominent linguists:  the [[Edward Sapir|Sapir]] chair in general linguistics,<ref>{{cite web|title=Edward Sapir Professorship|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/meetings-institutes/institutes/named-professorships#sapir}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = LSA to Endow Sapir Professorship|date = October 1983|journal = Anthropology News |volume=24 |issue=9}}</ref>  the [[Hermann Collitz|Hermann]] and [[Klara Hechtenberg Collitz|Klara H. Collitz]] Chair in historical linguistics,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/meetings-institutes/institutes/named-professorships#collitz|title=Hermann and Klara H. Collitz Professorship|access-date=30 September 2013}}</ref> and since 2005, the [[Kenneth L. Hale|Ken Hale]] chair in linguistic fieldwork and the preservation of [[endangered languages]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ken Hale Professorship|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/meetings-institutes/institutes/named-professorships#hale|access-date=30 September 2013}}</ref> The newest endowed professorship is named after the late LSA President [[Charles J. Fillmore|Charles Fillmore]]. The LSA also endows a series of student fellowships, named after prominent linguists and family members. These include fellowships named for [[Kenneth L. Hale|Ken Hale]], [[James D. McCawley|James McCawley]], [[Ivan Sag]], and [[Julia Bloch]]. The Bloch fellow also serves a simultaneous appointment to the LSA's executive committee and as the chair of its Student Committee. For the 2019 Institute, the LSA made two additional fellowship awards: the first named after Charles Fillmore, and the second named after Yuki Koroda.

The idea for a Linguistic Institute was first proposed in the spring of 1927 by Reinhold Saleski. The fledgling Society was hesitant at first, but [[Edgar Sturtevant]] was keen on the idea. Sturtevant molded Saleski's idea into a model still used today: a gathering of scholars in conjunction with coursework. The executive committee voted to authorize the first Linguistic Institute, to be held 1928, along with authorization for a second institute in 1929. After the fourth Institute in 1931, the program took a four-year hiatus due to the great depression.<ref name=Falk2014 /> Institutes were held every year concurrently with summer meetings of the LSA until 1988 when, due to increasing costs, the society announced that the Linguistic Institutes would be held every other year.<ref>{{cite book|title=Linguistic Society of America Bulletin | number = 119 | year=1988 | page = 8}}</ref> It was at that same time that the summer meeting of the LSA was also discontinued. (See [[Julia S. Falk|Falk]] 2014 for a detailed history of the Linguistic Institutes.)<ref name=Falk2014 />  
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The locations and dates of past and future institutes are listed below:
* Empirical Foundations for Theories of Language – [[Stanford]] (2007)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://linginst07.stanford.edu/ |title=Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute |publisher=Stanford University}}</ref>
* Linguistic Structure and Language Ecologies – [[UC Berkeley]] (2009)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lsa2009.berkeley.edu/ |title=LSA 2009 |publisher=University of California, Berkeley}}</ref>
* Language in the World – [[University of Colorado at Boulder]] (2011)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/ |title=LSA 2011 |publisher=University of Colorado, Boulder}}</ref>
* Universality and Variability – [[University of Michigan]] (2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lsa2013.lsa.umich.edu/ |title=LSA 2013 |publisher=University of Michigan}}</ref>
* Linguistic Theory in a World of Big Data – [[University of Chicago]] (2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://lsa2015.uchicago.edu/|title = LSA 2015|publisher = University of Chicago}}</ref>
* University of Kentucky at Lexington (2017)-->

In addition to the main Linguistic Institute, the LSA also sponsors the Institute for Collaborative Language Research (CoLang), which is held in alternate years from the main institute. CoLang provides training in language documentation and reclamation with a focus on Indigenous languages. It was most recently held in 2024 at Arizona State University and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The LSA also sponsors a student fellowship at this event.