Welcome to the new website of the Chicago Linguistic Society. CLS is the oldest student-run linguistics society in the US. Our mission is to organize student activities in the Department of Linguistics - including a weekly tea and occasional LingLunches - and to hold an annual conference in early Spring where linguists and scholars working in related disciplines can present and discuss their work. The conference has produced a volume of proceedings for each year of its existence, and our volumes can be found in libraries and bibliographies around the world. Our conference proceedings are also now becoming available on-line.

All CLS officers are volunteers from the department who are usually second or third year graduate students. We receive funding from the University and the Department, from the Graduate Student Council, and from the sales of our conference proceedings and memorabilia.