Talk:Linguistic Society of America

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Riverdrop, you added to the LSA article the sentence "A few prominent past presidents are Joseph Greenberg, Calvert Watkins, and Ken Hale." Are you sure you want to go that route? All LSA presidents are chosen because they are considered prominent by some substantial group of linguists. Is past president Morris Halle not equally (or more) prominent? Barbara Partee? I recommend deleting your addition since there is no good reason to single out your group of three over almost any other randomly chosen group. There's already a link on the page to the LSA's own list of past presidents. I could imagine importing that into the Wikipedia article, adding links for those who have articles. Note that I haven't taken any action on this. I'd rather hear your point of view first.

Hi, I'm a member of the LSA executive committee, I'm going to make a few changes to the page, just adding a little more background and deleting some of the less-relevant links. Mcfrank 21:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Did some rewriting and editing, tried to differentiate much of the text from the LSA website (some of it was copied from there earlier). Also added back in some past presidents; I think it's very interesting to know some of the famous linguists who have headed the LSA in past. The ones I put in are early linguists like Sapir and Boaz; I think they are uncontroversially known outside of the field (perhaps as opposed to some of those named above) I don't feel strongly about this, but I think it makes the entry more informative and interesting. Mcfrank (talk) 03:02, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Wasn't the first president of the LSA Leonard Bloomfield, its principal founder? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Taketheatrain (talk • contribs) 19:32, 8 June 2008 (UTC)