Call for submissions for the Joseph Greenberg Award 2009
Award Recipients
2007
Aleksandr
Arkhipov (Moscow State University).
Tipologija komitativnyx konstrukcij
(Typology of comitative constructions)
2005
Matti Miestamo
(University of Helsinki).
Clausal negation: a typological study
2001
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)
1999
Konstantin
Kazenin (Moscow State University).
Sintaktičsieskie 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)
Note: Until
2005, the Joseph Greenberg Award was referred to as ALT
Junior Award
Award Recipients
Patience Epps. 2007. A Grammar of Hup
Georg von der Gabelentz Award 2009
At the 8th Biennial Conference in Berkeley (July 23-26 2009), the Association for Linguistic Typology will award its first Georg von der Gabelentz Award, for a grammar published between January 1st 2005 and December 31st 2008.
The Gabelentz Award was established to encourage and honour achievements in the field of documenting the world’s linguistic diversity through the writing of reference grammars. To be eligible, a grammar must provide a systematic, accessible, comprehensive, original, insightful and typologically well-informed account of the workings of the language being described, generously exemplified with natural data. Though the normal expectation is that it would deal with a hitherto little-described language, outstanding grammars of better-known languages or dialects thereof may also be considered if they achieve major breakthroughs in a comprehensive understanding of the language. Grammars may be written in any major language, subject to the availability of a sufficient and geographically balanced set of jury members able to read the language.
The winner of the Gabelentz Award will present a plenary lecture or language tutorial at the ALT Conference, setting out the most typologically interesting aspects of the language. They will receive a paid fare to the conference, as well as a collection of reference grammars and other works donated by major publishers in the area.
Entries will be judged by a committee of half-a-dozen or more distinguished linguists, including a number of judges who have themselves written major reference grammars but also typologists and other categories of grammar-readers. The chair for the 2009 award will be Nikolaus Himmelmann.
Any grammar published between January 1st 2005 and December 31st 2008 will be eligible provided that it meets the conditions above and that the author is a member of the Association for Linguistic Typology. Grammars which have been submitted for the Panini Award can be submitted again for the Gabelentz Award provided that they have been substantially revised and published by an academic publisher. Grammars which win the Panini Award cannot be submitted at a later date for the Gabelentz Award. All submissions for the Gabelentz Award need to be published by an academic publisher.
Entries are normally submitted as a PDF file with embedded fonts. Hard copies can be sent in exceptional circumstances only (e.g. if the publisher does not agree to a PDF version being submitted or if the author is not in a position to make a PDF version, for whatever reason) and with prior agreement by the chair of the committee. The exact number of copies to be submitted will vary according to the size of the committee, but a minimum of six copies is to be expected. Submitted copies remain the property of the members of the jury.
The deadline for submissions is November 30 2008.
The address for submissions for the 2009 Gabelentz Award is:
Nikolaus Himmelmann
Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Aegidiistraße 5
D-48143 Münster
Germany
Email: nikolaus.himmelmann [@] uni-muenster.de