Language Log has been awarded the 2009 Linguistics, Language and the Public Award, given by the Linguistic Society of America "for a body of work that has had a demonstrable impact on the public awareness of language and/or linguistics."
Language Log will be recognized at the LSA's business meeting on January 10, 2009, in San Francisco, California. The award will be accepted on behalf of the Language Log team by two of its members: University of Pennsylvania professor of phonetics Mark Y. Liberman (who founded Language Log in 2003 along with Geoffrey K. Pullum, who is now at the University of Edinburgh) and Stanford professor of linguistics Arnold M. Zwicky (who has been a prolific and prominent contributor since shortly after the blog was started).Congratulations to Mark and the other Loggers for a richly deserved honor! Posted by languagehat at November 27, 2008 10:35 AM
I wonder what the Y stands for?
Posted by: A.J.P. Crown at November 27, 2008 12:56 PMIt was through Language Log that I discovered Language Hat.
Posted by: marie-lucie at November 27, 2008 01:13 PMYes, me too. Thank you for that, Loggers.
Posted by: A.J.P. Crown at November 27, 2008 01:18 PMLanguage Hat is for the more advanced Language Log people, such as Kron and M-Lucie. Especially Kron.
Posted by: John Emerson at November 27, 2008 02:27 PMMe three. In regards to both discovering the Hat and pondering the Y.
I didn't realise Liberman was of such distinguished stock.
Many felicitations to the Log.
Posted by: Sili at November 27, 2008 03:31 PMCongratulations to Language Log. They deserve it.
Posted by: Ian at November 27, 2008 06:44 PM'The Log People' sounds like a PBS documentary.
Posted by: Crown, A.J.P. at November 28, 2008 05:54 AM"'Log People' sounds like a PBS documentary." Indeed, one about people with the ability to digest cellulose.
Many congratulations to them.
I think I discovered LL through LH. I don't really remember, though, I may have come at it from several directions at once. (I'm pretty sure I found LH in the course of googling for Nahuatl poetry. Not sure how, though, as Hat doesn't seem to have ever written on the subject.)
Posted by: Tim May at November 29, 2008 03:55 AMTlāuhquéchōllaztalēhualtò tōnatoc.
Ayauhcoçamālōtōnamēyòtimani.
Xiuhcóyólizítzîlica in teōcuitlahuēhuētl.
Xiuhtlapallàcuilōlāmoxtli manca.
Nic chālchiuhcozcameca quenmach tòtóma in nocuic.
It is gleaming red like the tlauhquechol bird -- that's a long way from the cricket pitch, if I may say so. Extraordinarily wide range of interests you have, and good luck to you.
Posted by: Crown, A.J.P. at November 29, 2008 11:26 AMOh, I don't know a think about Nahuatl poetry, I just prayed to the Great God Google and that was vouchsafed me.
Posted by: language hat at November 29, 2008 01:13 PMA thing, rather. I think.
Posted by: language hat at November 29, 2008 01:13 PMI could go back and fix it with my hattic powers, but I have a nasty cold and don't want to strain myself.
Posted by: language hat at November 29, 2008 01:14 PMThe Hatti were Dravidians, you know.
Posted by: John Emerson at November 29, 2008 03:08 PMStill are slightly. Thank goodness for hattic powers.
Posted by: AJP Crown at November 29, 2008 04:57 PM