— About the Foundation —
The American Language Academy Foundation publishes four standing reference works of the American language. The Foundation is the publisher; the editorial board operates the editorial process as a body.
Column I · Publisher
The American Language Academy Foundation is a Delaware 501(c)(3) public charity. It was filed in the State of Delaware on 14 May MMXXVI and publishes the four standing reference works on 4 July MMXXVI. The Foundation holds the imprint, the corpus, and the editorial standards; it does not substitute its voice for that of any single volume.
Column II · Editorial Board
The Editorial Board carries the day-to-day work of the reference as a body. Its public record is organized by role labels only: Tier III Named Editor seats (per register), the Article II Veto Holder line for descriptivist review where flagged, and the Editor-in-Chief. No individual academic names appear on any page of the public register.
Column III · Curation Cascade
Every entry passes through four tiers before publication: Tier I Elector review, Tier II Founding Citizen ratification, Tier III Named Editor review, and Tier IV Editor-in-Chief finalization. Article II descriptivist review remains available on AAVE-flagged material without naming any participant.
— The Four Volumes —
Definitions of Black American usage, with attestation from the Foundation corpus.
Open the volume →IISynonym clusters of Black American usage, by sense and corpus.
Open the volume →IIIDefinitions of widely circulated Standard American usage from 1776 to the present.
Open the volume →IVSynonym clusters drawn from press, statute, transcript, and letter sources.
Open the volume →— A Brief History —
The Foundation was filed in the State of Delaware on the fourteenth day of May, two thousand twenty-six (MMXXVI), as a 501(c)(3) public charity. Publication of the four reference works follows on Independence Day, the fourth day of July, MMXXVI.
— Press & Inquiries —
Editorial correspondence may be directed to the Foundation at press@americanlanguageacademy.org. The Foundation does not return unsolicited submissions.