| Joan Maling | |
| Birth Date: | 15 November 1946 |
| Birth Place: | Baltimore, MD |
| Citizenship: | United States |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Linguistics |
| Workplaces: | National Science Foundation Brandeis University |
| Education: | Goucher College |
| Alma Mater: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis Title: | The Theory of Classical Arabic Metrics |
| Thesis Url: | http://mitwpl.mit.edu/catalog/mali01 |
| Thesis Year: | 1973 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Morris Halle |
| Known For: | Past president of the Linguistic Society of America |
| Spouses: | )--> |
| Partner: | Geoffrey K. Pullum |
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.