Starting spring 2024, the EC of the Association for Linguistic Typology decided to let membership in the organization be free of charge in order to facilitate the participation of anyone interested in typology regardless of their academic standing or job status. Please use the form here to become a member.

As is well known, the ALT organization maintains a bi-annual conference and in connection with it, distributes stipends to students and participants from low income countries to ensure as diverse attendance as possible. In addition, ALT organizes three high profile competitions for different kinds of typological and descriptive studies in order to encourage and promote the work of young scholars. The winners of these competitions become the plenary speakers at ALT conferences and the organization covers the expenses for their participation. Since funding is necessary for these activities, a part of the conference fee paid by the participants of the bi-annual ALT conferences will be allocated for ensuring their continuation and the development of future initiatives to promote scholarship in linguistic typology.