John M. Lawler

Professional Activities

(1) Computing, etc.

Member, Computer Policy Committee, University of Michigan (UM) College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LS&A), 1984-1990.

Special Consultant on Software Development to LS&A, 1986-1989.

Editor, _Information_ (LS&A Computing Newsletter), 1986-1989.

Member, UM Regents' Committee on Broadcasting, 1982-84, 1986-87.

Member, Committee on Information and Communication Technology, Linguistic Society of America (LSA), 1989-1993; Chair, 1991.

Organizer, first LSA Software Exhibit, 1992.

(Unanimous Resolution of Appreciation, Annual LSA Meeting, 1992.)

President, The Eclectic Company - Systems & Semantic Analyses, 1983-date.

Vice-President, Arbornet - Community Computer Conferencing, 1984-1991.

Founder and Archivist, linguistics.archive.umich.edu
(official archive site of The LINGUIST List) 1990-date.

(2) Teaching

Director and Advisor, Undergraduate Linguistics Concentration, UM, 1988-date.

Member, UM Governing Committee on Pilot Living/Learning Program, 1993-date .

Recipient, LS&A Excellence in Education Teaching Award, 1992, 1993.

Who's Who in American Education, 1995.

(3) Other

Organizer and Chair, Sloan Conference on "Cognitive Dimensions of Non-Western Languages", UM 1982.

Manuscript Referee: Newbury House, Basil Blackwell, Harper & Row, University of Chicago Press, University of Michigan Press, Language, EJC.

Proposal Referee, National Science Foundation

Consulting Editor, Studies In Language, 1981-date.

Participant, Mathematical Social Science Board Workshops (MSSB) on:

• "Tree Automata" (1971)
• "Pragmatics and Syntax" (1973)
  
• "Formal Alternatives to Generative Grammar" (1975)

Performing Member, The Brecht Company, Ann Arbor, 1986-date.