Joan Maling

Joan Maling is a linguist and program director at the National Science Foundation. Her primary research expertise is in the syntax of Icelandic.
Maling earned a BA from Goucher College and a PhD in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1972). She taught at Brandeis University from 1972 until she joined the National Science Foundation in 2003. She is a retired professor at Brandeis University.
Maling was co-editor (1983–1986) and then editor-in-chief (1987–2003) of the linguistics journal "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory". She is a past president of the Linguistic Society of America (2014).