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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>ALT News No. 40 <br>
November 2006 <br>
<br>
<br>
</span></font><font face="Courier New"><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>1.
ALT VII, Paris 2007 <br>
a. General call for papers <br>
b. ALT VII scholarships <br>
c. Workshops<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>2. The Joseph Greenberg Award 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>3. A new grammar prize<br>
4. Nominating committee<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>5. Publications received</span></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<font face="Courier New"><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>1. ALT VII, Paris
2007 <br>
<br>
Below we put together the calls for papers that have been posted at various
places in connection with ALT VII. Special attention is drawn to item (1b),
which has not been posted anywhere else yet. <br>
<br>
a. General call for papers <br>
<br>
The seventh International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology
(ALT VII) will be held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Paris</st1:City></st1:place>
at the Ministry of Research, from Tuesday September 25 to Friday September 28,
2007. The conference will be organized by the French Fédération Typologie et
Universaux Linguistiques of the CNRS. The local organizers for ALT VII will be
Stéphane Robert, Isabelle Bril, Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and Martine Vanhove.<br>
<br>
Members and non-members wishing to present a paper at ALT VII are asked to
e-mail a one-page abstract to the chair of the program committee, David Gil, to
reach him no later than January 15, 2007. A second page may be included with
the abstract listing data. The abstract itself should contain no
identification of the author. A separate page should indicate the title
of the abstract, the name(s) of the author(s), and one mailing address, with
telephone, fax, and e-mail address as available. The conference will be held in
English and French; abstracts may be submitted in either language. After the
decision of acceptance of the abstracts has been conveyed, authors will be
asked to send their abstracts in both languages.<br>
<br>
Submissions should be sent to:<br>
<br>
David Gil<br>
Fax +49 341-9952119<br>
<a href="mailto:gil@eva.mpg.de">gil@eva.mpg.de</a><br>
<br>
The committee strongly encourages submissions by e-mail (preferably with the
abstract in pdf format and author information as part of the e-mail text), but
abstracts may also be sent by fax. Authors are asked to check their pdf
files carefully to ensure that special characters are embedded properly.<br>
<br>
The time allotted for presentation and discussion is 30 minutes. Participants
may not be involved in more than two abstracts, of which at most one may be
single-authored.<br>
<br>
Members and non-members are also encouraged to present posters at ALT VII
(final format should be 2m high and 1m wide). An abstract should be submitted
under the same conditions as for papers (see above).<br>
<br>
By March 1, 2007, the program committee will convey its decision on acceptance
of papers to those submitting abstracts. The committee consists of David Gil
(chair), Nick Evans, M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest, Ekkehard Koenig, Brian
Migliazza, Edith Moravcsik, and Martine Vanhove.<br>
<br>
Details concerning registration and accommodation for the conference will follow.
There is also a dedicated website: <a href="http://www.alt7.cnrs.fr/">http://www.alt7.cnrs.fr/</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
b. ALT VII scholarships<br>
<br>
ALT has a limited amount of funds to provide partial support for a small number
of ALT members attending the ALT VII Conference. Financial support for ALT VII
will be awarded on the basis of the following two factors: (a) high quality of
abstract; and (b) financial need of applicant.<br>
<br>
ALT members wishing to apply for financial support should include an
application for financial support when submitting their abstract. The
application should consist of a brief (one paragraph) statement explaining why
the applicant considers himself/herself to be in need of financial assistance.
No applications for financial support will be considered after the January 15
deadline.<br>
<br>
The ALT funds are intended for scholars from developing countries and for
students anywhere. Currently-employed professional linguists from affluent
developed countries should not apply. <br>
<br>
<br>
c. Adjacent to ALT VII there will be 4 and possibly 5 workshops:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Sept 21-24: Language contact and morphosyntactic
variation and change<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Sept 24: French corpora: tools and models<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Sept 24 - 25 (morning): Typology and documentation (to
be confirmed)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Sept 24 - 25 (morning): Typology of African
languages<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Sept 29: Semantic maps: methods and applications<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>For three of these there are calls for papers. They
are listed below:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>i. Call for papers for an International workshop on
Language contact and morphosyntactic variation and change, <br>
Paris, September 20th, 21st and 24th, 2007 <br>
<br>
At the occasion of the 7th conference of the Association for Linguistic
Typology (ALT VII) organized by the Fédération Typologie et Universaux du CNRS
[French National Centre for Scientific Research] a 3 day workshop on
morphosyntactic variation and change in situations of language contact will be
held. <br>
<br>
The workshop investigates the mechanisms of linguistic variation and change in
the light of current research on language contact with a focus on variation and
typological change in the area of morphosyntax. It explores the connections
between work on language variation and change, which traditionally focuses on
innovation and reorganization within a single system, and research in contact linguistics,
which deals with linguistic change resulting from the interaction between
different grammatical systems. <br>
<br>
The following questions will be at the centre of the discussion: <br>
<br>
- In situations of language contact, do the mechanisms of
linguistic change differ from those that have ‘typically’ been
invoked in work on language evolution? <br>
- In language contact, is morphosyntactic change always
preceded by variation? Is the period of variation longer or shorter than in
cases of language-internally motivated change? <br>
- Are the linguistic results and processes of language
contact different from those of Internal linguistic change (grammaticalization,
reanalysis…)? <br>
- How can contact-induced variation and change be
differentiated from language-internally motivated variation and change in
settings involving contact? <br>
- How do the findings from current contact linguistic
research affect current frameworks and methodological approaches to
language-internally motivated variation and change? Can these two lines of
research be integrated or is it necessary to devise a new model? <br>
<br>
Topics for the plenary talks are as follows: <br>
<br>
• Sarah Thomason (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Michigan</st1:State></st1:place>) – on internal and external
processes of change in contact situations from a diachronic perspective. <br>
• Yaron Matras (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Manchester</st1:City></st1:place>)
– on the influence of sociocultural and typological factors in
contact-induced change. <br>
• Miriam Meyerhoff (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Edinburgh</st1:City></st1:place>) – comparing syntactic
variation and language change in the variationist framework and in contact
linguistics. <br>
• Zarina Estrada (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Sonora</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place>)
– on contact-induced change involving closely related languages. <br>
<br>
Talks will be 30 minutes long followed by 10 minutes for discussion. <br>
<br>
Submissions are also invited for posters. <br>
<br>
Preference will be given to papers dealing with a diachronic and/or dynamic
synchronic perspective presenting: <br>
<br>
- morphosyntactic data showing linguistic variation or
change, either completed or in process, leading, in particular, to typological
reorganization <br>
- analyses of linguistic processes at work <br>
- critical discussion of existing theoretical frameworks
(language variation and change, typological change, etc.) <br>
- proposals for (new) models about the nature of linguistic
change in situations of language contact. <br>
<br>
Selected papers and posters from the conference will be published in a volume
dealing with issues of variation and change in situations of contact. <br>
<br>
<br>
Abstracts should present the data and outline the analysis and the research
questions (500 words followed by a maximum of 5 bibliographical references) and
should be sent as attachments (.doc or .rtf) by December 15th 2006 to: <br>
<br>
<a href="mailto:leglise@vjf.cnrs.fr">leglise@vjf.cnrs.fr</a> and <a
href="mailto:claudine@correo.unam.mx">claudine@correo.unam.mx</a> <br>
<br>
In the body of your message please indicate the name and address of the
author(s), title of the presentation, affiliation and whether you intend to
give a talk or poster. <br>
<br>
Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. <br>
<br>
Notification of acceptance: March 5th, 2007. <br>
<br>
Workshop languages: French, English, Spanish. <br>
<br>
Isabelle Léglise and Claudine Chamoreau <br>
Workshop “Contact et changement linguistique” <br>
UMR CNRS CELIA <br>
BP8 <br>
7, rue Guy Moquet <br>
94801 Villejuif <br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
ii. Call for papers for an International Workshop on the Typology of African
Languages.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>On Monday, September 24, and Tuesday morning, there
will be a Workshop on the typology of African Languages organized by Guillaume
Segerer and Bernard Caron. African languages show a great typological diversity
as well as specific features that cross genetic boundaries and contrast with
other languages of the world. Four sessions will be dedicated to papers on the
following topics, with a State-of-the-Art paper followed by a case study for
each of them. The four topics are<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>(i) Information structure and prosody. Invited
Speaker : Laura Downing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>(ii) A typology of linguistic change. Invited
Speaker : Konstantin Pozdniakov<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>(iii) Linguistic typology and genealogy. Invited
Speaker : Zygmund Frajzyngier<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>(iv) Areal typology in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>.
Invited Speaker : Tom Güldemann<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Anyone wishing to present a paper is invited to send
an abstract (max 400 words) before January 15, 2007 to the address below.
Abstracts sent by e-mail should be included in the message (i.e. not appended
as an attachment). The scientific committtee is composed of the Invited
Speakers and the Organizers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>The Proceedings of the workshop will be published.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Address for workshop abstracts:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Guillaume Segerer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Workshop on African Languages<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>LLACAN CNRS B.P. 8<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span lang=FR
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>7, rue Guy Môquet<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span lang=FR
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>94801 Villejuif Cedex<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span lang=FR
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>France<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span lang=FR
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>email: segerer@vjf.cnrs.fr<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>fax: ++33 1 49 58 38 <br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>iii. Call for papers for an International Workshop
on Semantic maps: methods and applications, to be held adjacent to the seventh
meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology on Saturday, 29 September
2007 in the Centre André-Georges Haudricourt (CNRS linguistic research units),
Villejuif (Paris Metro area). <br>
<br>
Organized by: <br>
Michael Cysouw, Martin Haspelmath, and Andrej Malchukov <br>
Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Leipzig</st1:City></st1:place> <br>
<br>
=== Theme === <br>
<br>
In recent years the semantic map methodology has enjoyed increased popularity
in cross-linguistic studies. Although there are various ways to make semantic
maps, they all are attempts to visually represent cross-linguistic regularity
in semantic structure. It has become increasingly clear that these attempts to
map out linguistic categorization provide an empirically testable tool to the
study of semantic variation across languages. The semantic map approach has
further shown convergence with grammaticalization theory, as well as with the
research using (implicational) hierarchies, as found in functional typology and
optimality theory. <br>
<br>
Some general discussion and references on the (recieved) method of building
semantic maps can be found in Croft 2001 and Haspelmath 2003. Further,
different kinds of semantic maps have been proposed for diverse parts of
linguistic structure, including tense/aspect (e.g., Anderson 1982; Croft fc.),
modality (Anderson 1986; van der Auwera & Plungian 1998), voice (Kemmer
1993; Croft 2001), pronouns (Haspelmath 1997a; Cysouw fc.), case-marking
(Haspelmath 2003; Narrog & Ito 2006), clause linkage (Kortmann 1997;
Malchukov 2004), spatial and temporal domain (Haspelmath 1997b; Levinson &
Meira 2003), as well as to a number of syntactic domains, such as intransitive
predication (Stassen 1997) and secondary predication (van der Auwera &
Malchukov 2005). <br>
<br>
Yet various aspects of the semantic maps approach remain unsettled and open to
discussion: it is the goal of the workshop to address these topics, in order to
contribute - both empirically and theoretically - to the development of the
semantic map methodology. <br>
<br>
=== Topics === <br>
<br>
This workshop invites contributions related to the further understanding of the
semantic map method. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: <br>
<br>
- Status of semantic maps in linguistic theory <br>
- Methods of building semantic maps from data <br>
- Limits of the semantic map approach <br>
- Possibilities for and problems of the interpretation of semantic map <br>
- Relation between semantic maps and grammaticalization chains <br>
- Presentation and discussion of particular semantic maps <br>
- Scalability of the method to build semantic maps (e.g. the problem of the
“vacuous” semantic maps, which might arise when more empirical data
is included) <br>
– Implications of cross-linguistically rare phenomena for semantic maps <br>
- In what way can the semantic map approach guide and be guided by the
deductive (decompositional) approaches in (formal) semantics; <br>
- Relation between semantic maps and psycholinguistic research (i.e. issues of
mental reality of the structures discovered by the semantic map methodology) <br>
<br>
Send your one-page abstract to Michael Cysouw at the address below, preferably
by email (in plain text or in PDF format) or as hard copy, to arrive no later
than January 31st, 2007. Notification of acceptance is by March 1st, 2007. <br>
<br>
The normal time allotted for presentation is 30 minutes plus 15 minutes for
discussion. <br>
<br>
=== Further information === <br>
<br>
Martin Haspelmath (<a href="mailto:haspelmath@eva.mpg.de">haspelmath@eva.mpg.de</a>
<br>
Andrej Malchukov (<a href="mailto:andrej_malchukov@eva.mpg.de">andrej_malchukov@eva.mpg.de</a>)<br>
Michael Cysouw (<a href="mailto:cysouw@eva.mpg.de">cysouw@eva.mpg.de</a>) <br>
<br>
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology <br>
Deutscher Platz 6 <br>
D-04103 Leipzig <br>
Germany <br>
<br>
Webpage of this workshop: <a href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/%7Ecysouw/meetings/">http://www.eva.mpg.de/~cysouw/meetings/</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
2. The Joseph Greenberg Award 2007<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>ALT will be continuing its Junior Award for the best piece of
typological research embodied in a doctoral dissertation or equivalent, but
will be renaming it the 'Joseph Greenberg Award for the best doctoral dissertation
or equivalent in Linguistic Typology'. The next round of these awards, to be
decided for the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:City>
meeting of the ALT next year, will be for a thesis accepted between 1 January
2005 and 31 December 2006. The award will consist of payment of travel, per
diem expenses and registration fee to attend the ALT VII Conference, to be held
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Paris</st1:City></st1:place>,
September 25 to September 28, 2007, and to present a synopsis or element of the
prize-winning work as a plenary lecture at that meeting. From 2007 this Award
will be known as the Joseph Greenberg Award, in honour of the late Joseph
Greenberg's fundamental contributions to typology and the interest he showed in
encouraging young researchers.<br>
<br>
Those wishing to be considered for this award are asked to submit their
dissertation by email in pdf format, with all non-standard fonts in Unicode, to
the Chair of the Jury, to arrive no later than February 1 2007. If this proves
technically difficult, the candidate is asked to discuss the problem with the chair.
<br>
<br>
A jury, consisting of 5 ALT members, will be appointed by ALT's President,
appropriate to the work submitted. The chair will be<br>
<br>
Eva Schultze-Berndt <br>
Linguistics<br>
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz<br>
Merangasse 70<br>
A-8010 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Graz</st1:City></st1:place><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Austria</st1:country-region></st1:place><br>
<br>
<a href="mailto:Schultze-Berndt@ling.uni-graz.at">Schultze-Berndt@ling.uni-graz.at</a></span></font><br>
<br>
<font size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
3. A new grammar prize<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>We are proud to announce the establishment of a new
grammar prize 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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Entries will be judged by a committee of
half-a-dozen distinguished linguists, including a number of judges who have
themselves written major reference grammars but also typologists and other
categories of grammar-reader. The chair of the jury will be nominated before
the submission date by the President of the ALT, in consultation with the
Executive committee, and the chair and the president will then constitute the
jury once the full set of submissions is known.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>The ALT grammar prize will be awarded every two
years, with the winner announced in time for them to present a plenary lecture
or language tutorial at the next ALT Conference, setting out the most
typologically interesting aspects of the language. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>There will be two categories of prize, on
alternating four year cycles – one, to be known as the Panini Grammar
Award, for grammars written as dissertations, and one, to be known as the Georg
von der Gabelentz Grammar Award, for published grammars.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>For each category, any grammar (respectively) passed as a dissertation
or published in the four year period leading up to December 31<sup>st</sup> in
the year preceding the ALT Conference, will be eligible provided that it meets
the conditions above and that the author is a member of the ALT. Grammars which
win the Panini award cannot be submitted at a later date for the Gabelentz
award. Six copies of the entry must be submitted to the Chair of the Jury by February
1<sup>st</sup> of the year following the four year period. In the case of the
Panini award only, entries may be submitted as a pdf file with embedded fonts,
except that submission of bound copies is preferred in the case of countries
such as the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:City></st1:place>
where a form of non-commercial publication is a requirement. Submitted copies
remain the property of the members of the jury. It will normally be the
responsibility of the applicant to cover the costs of submitting their work,
but the Chair will consider applications for assistance in the case of
demonstrable financial hardship. It is planned that the initial award would be
made in 2007, in the Dissertation category. Marianne Mithun has kindly agreed
to chair the first Panini award, and anyone wishing to be considered should
send their entries to her address:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Marianne Mithun<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dept of Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>University</span></font></st1:PlaceType><font size=3><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName>
at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Santa Barbara</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span lang=IT
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Santa Barbara, CA 93106<br>
USA<br>
<br>
mithun@linguistics.ucsb.edu<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>An anonymous donation will enable ALT to get this award started in time
for the next ALT meeting, and we will be opening a special account to which
others wishing to support this initiative can donate funds; details will be
announced in the next Newsletter.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Prize winners for the Panini award will receive a
paid fare to and accommodation and registration at the ALT conference at which
they will present their plenary, as well as a collection of reference grammars
and other works donated by major publishers in the area. Because of current
financial limitations on the ALT Budget, Prizewinners for the Gabelentz award
will not receive a paid fare to the ALT conference, but other conditions will
be identical. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>4. Nominating committee<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>We would like to welcome the two new members of the
Nominating Committee, Kees Hengeveld and Jae Jung Song, and thank the two
departing members, Claude Hagège and Tasaku Tsunoda, for their contributions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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