Joan Maling
Joan Maling | |
|---|---|
| Born | November , 1946 |
| Education | Goucher College |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Past president of the Linguistic Society of America |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics |
| Institutions | National Science Foundation Brandeis University |
Joan Maling is a linguist and a former program director at the National Science Foundation.[1][2] Her primary research expertise is in the syntax of Icelandic. Her mother was Harriet Florence Maling.
Maling earned a BA from Goucher College and a PhD in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1972). She taught at Brandeis University from 1972 until she joined the National Science Foundation in 2003. She is professor emerita at Brandeis University.
Maling was co-editor (1983–1986) and then editor-in-chief (1987–2003) of the linguistics journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.[3] She is a past president of the Linguistic Society of America (2014).[4]
Maling retired from the National Science Foundation in 2021.
References[]
- ^ http://nsf.gov/mobile/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=jmaling&org=NSF&from_org=NSF NSF employee information
- ^ "Joan Maling | Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu.
- ^ "NLLT Editorial Board". Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ^ "LSA Presidents". Retrieved 11 January 2015.
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