Joan Maling | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 15, 1946 Baltimore, MD |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Goucher College |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Past president of the Linguistic Society of America |
| Partner | Geoffrey K. Pullum |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistics |
| Institutions | National Science Foundation Brandeis University |
| Thesis | The Theory of Classical Arabic Metrics (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Morris Halle |
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.
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.