Joan Maling

Joan Maling is a linguist and program director at the National Science Foundation.http://nsf.gov/mobile/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=jmaling&org=NSF&from_org=NSF  NSF employee information 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.  She is a past president of the Linguistic Society of America (2014).

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 Profile at Brandeis University with links to publications up to 2005

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