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==Awards==
The LSA presents a series of awards during its annual meeting. The list of awards, their descriptions, and selected holders are listed below:

*'''Best Paper in ''Language''''': awarded to the best paper published in the journal ''Language'' that year; all published papers written by at least one LSA author are eligible.<ref name="honors">{{Cite web|url = http://www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/lsa-awards|title = LSA Honors and Awards}}</ref>
*'''Early Career Award''': awarded to a member who has made "outstanding contributions to the field of linguistics" early in their career.<ref name="honors"/>
*'''Excellence in Community Linguistics Award''': awarded to members of language communities (typically outside the academic sphere of professional linguists) who make "outstanding contributions" for the benefit of their community's language.<ref name="honors"/>
*'''[[Kenneth L. Hale Award]]''': named after linguist [[Kenneth L. Hale|Kenneth Hale]], this award is given to a member who has done "outstanding work" on the documentation of a particular language or family of languages that is endangered or no longer spoken.<ref name="honors"/>
*'''Leonard Bloomfield Book Award''': named after linguist [[Leonard Bloomfield]], this award is given to a book that has made an "outstanding contribution of enduring value" to our understanding of language and linguistics.<ref name="honors"/>
*'''Linguistics Service Award''': awarded to a member who has performed "distinguished service" for the society<ref name="honors"/>
*'''Linguistics, Language and the Public Award''': awarded to a member for work that "effectively increases public awareness and understanding of linguistics and language" in the four years immediately preceding the nomination deadline; works in any medium are eligible and can be considered for multiple cycles.<ref name="honors"/>
*'''Student Abstract Award''': awarded to a student who has submitted an abstract to the annual meeting.<ref name="honors"/>
*'''[[Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award]]''': named after linguist [[Victoria Fromkin]], this award is given to a member who has performed "extraordinary service to the discipline and to the Society" throughout their career<ref name="honors"/>
*'''Linguistics Journalism Award''': First awarded in 2014, this award is given to "the journalist whose work best represents linguistics" in the prior year.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/lsa-awards#lja|title = LSA Honors and Awards: Journalism Award|access-date = March 28, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/blogexcerpts/ben-zimmer-wins-lsas-linguistics-journalism-award/|title = Ben Zimmer Wins LSA's Linguistics Journalism Award|date = October 29, 2014|access-date = July 18, 2015|website = Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus}}</ref>

===Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award recipients===
Past winners of the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award include:<ref>{{cite web |title=Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award Previous Holders |url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/linguistics-language-and-public-award-previous-winners |website=Linguistic Society of America |access-date=9 October 2020}}</ref>

* [[Anne Curzan]]
* [[Michael Erard]]
* [[Leanne Hinton]]
* [[Anne H. Charity Hudley]]
* [[Language Log]]
* [[Gretchen McCulloch]]
* [[John McWhorter]]
* [[Donna Jo Napoli]]
* [[North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition]]
* [[Geoffrey Nunberg]]
* [[Steven Pinker]]
* [[John R. Rickford]]
* [[Deborah Tannen]]
* [[Walt Wolfram]]