Noble prize for linguistics

[Daniel Everett]

Pike was nominated I think 5 times for the Nobel peace prize. The initial efforts were led by Adam Makkai.

Haj Ross's grandfather, John Raleigh Mott, won the Nobel peace prize in 1946.

Dan

On 27 Oct 2010, at 17:24, Sydney Lamb wrote:

> Right, Mark. But you may be interested to know that Ken Pike was
> once nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, because of his work in
> 4th world societies.
> 
> -Syd Lamb
> 
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Mark P. Line wrote:
> 
>> Yuri Tambovtsev wrote:
>>> Is there any solid and respected prize for linguists like the Noble prize?
>>> Should linguists establish it? Be well, Yuri Tambovtsev
>> 
>> It can't be done.
>> 
>> Any such award would have to be awarded by a well-balanced committee of
>> linguists. No such committee would ever produce a majority opinion about
>> anything related to linguistics. In fact, it would generally produce no
>> less than N+1 contradictory opinions on any question, given a committee
>> size of N.
>> 
>> 
>> -- Mark
>> 
>> Mark P. Line
>> Bartlesville, OK
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> Sydney M. Lamb
> Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences
> Rice University, Houston, TX
>