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- EIN 63-6022420
- (217) 370-5745
- 51 Muddy Dog Run Essex Jct VT 05452-4451 USA
- http://www.americandialect.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Humanities
Mission: Scholarship in american english
Programs: Publishing with duke university press a quarterly scholarly journal, american speech, with an annual monograph supplement, publication of the american dialect society. Total circulation to members and institutions about 1500.
sponsoring an annual national meeting every january, hosted by the linguistic society of america. A program committee chooses about 30 presentations from about 60 proposals. The meeting includes a vote on words of the year gone by, a reception, and a luncheon.
through the hans kurath fund for the linguistic atlas, awarding grants in support of research and analysis for the linquistic atlas of the middle and south atlantic states at the university of georgia, the university of mississippi, and the university of wisconsin.