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Joan Maling

Joan Maling

Linguist

Joan Maling is an American 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.

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Maling earned a BA from Goucher College and a PhD in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973).[3] 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 a founding co-editor (1983–1986) and then editor-in-chief (1987–2003) of the linguistics journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.[4] She is a past president of the Linguistic Society of America (2014).[5]

Maling retired from the National Science Foundation in 2021.

References

  1. [1]
    http://nsf.gov/mobile/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=jmaling&org=NSF&from_org=NSF NSF employee information
  2. [2]
    "Joan Maling | Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu.
  3. [3]
    "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  4. [4]
    "NLLT Editorial Board". Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  5. [5]
    "LSA Presidents". Retrieved 11 January 2015.


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