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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.

Joan Maling
Born	(1946-11-00)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

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

External links

• Profile at Brandeis University with links to publications up to 2005

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