Australian Linguistic Society

The Australian Linguistic Society is the national organisation for linguists and linguistics in Australia. Its primary goal is to further interest in and support for linguistics research and teaching in Australia. The Australian Linguistic Society is one of the two main linguistics societies in Australia.

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The ALS Newsletter is issued three times per year, in March, July and October. Information for the Newsletter should be sent to the Editor, Joe Blythe (alsonline-at-als.asn.au) during the first week of March, July and October. There is a list of people who are automatically advised that it is time to contribute material; if you wish to be added to that list, send Joe an email.

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The Australian Linguistic Society is the national organisation for linguists and linguistics in Australia. Its primary goal is to further interest in and support for linguistics research and teaching in Australia. The Australian Linguistic Society is one of the two main linguistics societies in Australia.

AJL

Australian Journal of Linguistics

The Australian Journal of Linguistics, the journal of the Australian Linguistic Society, is published four times per year. Members can access their electronic copy via the member portal online.
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Scholarships & Prizes

The Australian Linguistic Society offers four Prizes and Scholarships to support linguistics research students: the Michael Clyne Prize; the Gerhardt Laves Scholarship; the Jalwang Scholarship; and the Susan Kaldor Scholarship 
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Research Grants

The Australian Linguistic Society offers a research grant scheme of up to $5000 per grant for research in any area of linguistics.
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What's new?

Voting is now open for the Rodney Huddleston Prize 2023

In its sixth year of being presented, the annual Rodney Huddleston Prize is awarded to the best paper published in the previous year of the Australian Journal of Linguistics as judged by the members of the Australian Linguistics Society. 

The $1,000 cash prize is generously funded by Taylor and Francis, the publishers of AJL, and is named after AJL’s first editor, Rodney Huddleston, who edited the journal from 1979-1985. 

The winner will be announced at the ALS Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, 29 November 2023.

To cast your vote 

  1. Click on the link https://als.asn.au/MemberGateway 
  2. Use your login name and password to access the online member portal. If you have forgotten either, please click on "Forgotten your username or password?". 
  3. After login, click on the "Votes" tab.  
  4. The papers in Vol 42, 2022 of the Australian Journal of Linguistics are listed there; to access the abstract for a paper, click on the paper title.
  5. To cast your vote for the best paper you have read in Vol42, please click the button in the column to the left of your selected paper and then submit your vote using the button at the bottom of the page.

Voting closes at 2.00 pm on Wednesday, 29 November 2023.

Jean Mulder
AJL Editor

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