Laura Michaelis named Charles J. Fillmore Professor at 2025 LSA Linguistic Institute
Laura A. Michaelis, Professor and Chair of Linguistics, has been named Charles J. Fillmore Professor for the upcoming Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute, which will take place at the University of Oregon in July and August 2025. Since its inception in 1928, the LSA Institute has served as a premier biennial event, convening approximately 100 faculty and hundreds of students from around the world for an intensive month of courses, lectures, workshops, and networking opportunities.
The Fillmore Professorship, established in 2015 to honor the late Charles J. Fillmore—a world-renowned UC Berkeley scholar of syntax and semantics—recognizes linguists whoÌý advance his legacy of exploring lexical meaning in relation to context, grammar, corpora, and computation. The professorship includes a student fellowship, underscoring its commitment to fostering the next generation of empirical linguists.
Dr. Michaelis, an expert on the use of corpus tools to study syntactic meaning, variation, and change, is the fifth recipient of this title—and the first to have been a doctoral advisee of Charles Fillmore. At the 2025 Linguistic Institute, she will co-teach a course with her frequent Ìýcollaborator Elaine Francis (Purdue) entitled Constructions and the Grammar of Context.
