Joan Maling

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Joan Maling
EducationGoucher College
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forPast president of the Linguistic Society of America
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics
InstitutionsNational Science Foundation
Brandeis University

Joan Maling is a linguist and program director at the National Science Foundation.[1][2] Her primary research expertise is in the syntax of Icelandic.

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 a retired professor 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]

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  1. http://nsf.gov/mobile/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=jmaling&org=NSF&from_org=NSF Archived 2017-07-11 at the Wayback Machine NSF employee information
  2. "Joan M Maling".
  3. "NLLT Editorial Board". Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  4. "LSA Presidents". Retrieved 11 January 2015.

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