The Association for Linguistic Typology's Joseph Greenberg Award recognizes and honours the best piece of typological research embodied in a doctoral dissertation or equivalent newly produced piece of research. The award is usually distributed in conjunction with the biennal ALT conference. For each new award competition a jury consisting of about 10 ALT members is appointed by the President of ALT in agreement with the Executive Committee.
The award consists of payment of travel, per diem expenses and registration fee to attend the biennal conference. The award recipient is invited to present a synopsis or element of the prize-winning work as a plenary lecture at that meeting.
The Joseph Greenberg Award was named to remember Joseph Greenberg's (1915-2001) fundamental contributions to typology and the interest he showed in encouraging young researchers. Between 1998 and 2006, it was known as the ALT Junior Award.
To be eligible, those submitting their dissertation must be members of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT). They are asked to submit their manuscript to the chair of the jury following instructions posted on the LINGTYP list as well as on this website as they become available for each particular competition. The deadline for 2009 was January 31.
The awards committee may also indicate other dissertations of exceptionally high quality among the ones submitted for the award competition. This is done by an Honourable Mention.
Award Recipients and Honourable Mentions
| 2009 | 2007 | 2005 | 2001 | 1999 |
2009
Award Recipient
Caterina
Mauri (University of Pavia)
Coordination relations in the languages of Europe and beyond
Honourable
Mention
Jan
Wohlgemuth (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
A
Typology of Verbal Borrowing
2007
Award
Recipient
Aleksandr Arkhipov (Moscow State University)
Tipologija komitativnyx konstrukcij
(Typology of comitative constructions)
Honourable
Mentions
Valentin
Gousev (Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Linguistics, Moscow)
Tipologija specializirovannyx glagol'nyx form imperativa
(Typology of dedicated verbal forms of the imperative)
Olesya Khanina
(Moscow State University)
Jazykovoe oformlenie situacii želania (opyt tipologičeskogo
issledovania)
(Linguistic encoding of 'wanting': a typological approach)
René
Schiering (University of Konstanz)
Cliticization and the Evolution of Morphology: a Cross-linguistic
Study on Phonology in Grammaticalization)
2005
Award
Recipient
Matti Miestamo (University of Helsinki)
Clausal negation: a typological study
Honourable
Mentions
Oliver
Iggesen (Universität Bremen)
Case-asymmetry: a world-wide typological study on lexeme-class-dependent
deviations in morphological case inventories
Hsiu-chuan
Liao (University of Hawai'i)
Transitivity and ergativity in Formosan and Philippine languages
Adam Saulwick
(University of Melbourne)
Aspect of the verb in Rembarrnga: a polysynthetic language of northern
Australia
2001
Award Recipients
Michael Cysouw (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen)
The paradigmatic structure of person marking
Michael
Daniel (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
Tipologija associativnoj množestvennosti
(The typology of associative plurality)
Honourable
Mention
Elena
Filimonova (Lomonosov University, 1999)
Universal'nye anomalij licnyx mestoimenij
(Universal anomalies of personal pronouns)
1999
Award Recipients
Konstantin Kazenin (Moscow State University)
Sintaksičieskie ograničenija i puti ix ob'jasnenija (na
materiale dagestanskix jazykov)
("Syntactic constraints and ways of explaining them (based on Daghestanian
languages)")
Sergej
Tatevosov (Moscow State University)
Typological problems of quantification in natural language (based
on quantifiers expressing totality)
Honourable
Mentions
Sonia Cristaforo (University of Pavia)
Holger Diessel
(University at Buffalo)
Demonstratives in crosslinguistic and diachronic perspective
Ekaterina
Ljutikova (Moscow State University)
Intensifikatory i tipologija reflexiva
("Intensifiers and the typology of reflexives")
Award Recipients
2007
Patience Epps (University of Texas)
A Grammar of Hup
2009
Carol Genetti (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Grammar of Dolakha Newar. 2007. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.