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<div><b>Call for the ALT's Joseph Greenberg Award</b></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">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
in 2011-2012. Theses are eligible if they were </font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">accepted by a university (i.e. passed or defended or accepted, and not just submitted) between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2012. The award
will consist of payment of travel,</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "> per diem expenses and registration fee to attend the ALT 10th Conference, to be held in Leipzig, August 15-18, 2013, and to present
a synopsis or element of the prize-winning work as a plenary lecture at that meeting.</span></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">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".</font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">To be eligible, those submitting their dissertation must be members of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT). They are asked to submit their manuscript by email in pdf format, with all non-standard
fonts in Unicode, to the chair of the jury, to arrive no later than January 31st <span style="font: normal normal normal 7px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span>2013. If this proves technically difficult, the candidate is asked to discuss the problem with
the chair. A jury, consisting of about ten ALT members, will be appointed by ALT's president, appropriate to the work submitted.</font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">The chair will be:</font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">Jae Jung Song</font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">Department of English & Linguistics</font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">University of Otago</font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">PO Box 56, Dunedin</font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3">New Zealand</font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><a href="mailto:jaejung.song@otago.ac.nz">jaejung.song@otago.ac.nz</a></font></div>
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