Congratulations to Ash Asudeh, recipient of the 2005 Beth Dissertation Prize!  

The prize is awarded by FOLLI, the Association of Logic, Language, and 
Information (http://www.folli.org/), to "the best dissertation which resulted 
in a Ph.D. in the year 2004. The dissertations will be judged on the impact 
they made in their respective fields, breadth and originality of the work, and 
also on the interdisciplinarity of the work."   Ash's dissertation provides a 
new view of pronominal resumption in long-distance dependencies and copy 
raising.  It's well-written, thorough, and covers a lot of new and interesting 
theoretical ground -- and thoroughly deserving of this prize.

