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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">2017 Gabelentz Award</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Submissions are
invited for the third Georg von der Gabelentz Award, for a grammar published
between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2016. The award will be made at the 12th
Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology in Canberra,
Australia, 11-15 December, 2017. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">The Gabelentz
Award was established to encourage and honor 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.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">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 users. The chair for the 2017 award
will be Toshihide Nakayama, <span style="font-size:12.8px">ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies</span>. <span style="color:black">Prize winners for the
Gabelentz award will receive support for travel, accommodation and registration
at the ALT conference in Canberra. They will also present a plenary lecture
setting out the typologically most interesting aspects of the language.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Any grammar
published between January 1st 2013 and December 31st 2016 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 (for a grammar dissertation) 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.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Entries are
normally submitted as a PDF file with embedded fonts to this address: <a href="mailto:Toshihide.Nakayama@gmail.com" target="_blank">Toshihide.Nakayama@gmail.com</a>. 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. If hard copies are submitted, 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 hard copies remain the property of the
members of the jury. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2017.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Past award
winners:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">2009<b><br>
Carol Genetti </b>(University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br>
<i><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Grammar of Dolakha Newar.</span></i><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> 2007. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</span></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">2013</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br>
<b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Sebastian Fedden </span></b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(University of Surrey, UK)</span><br>
<i><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">A grammar of Mian.</span></i><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> 2011. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</span></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">The Chair will be:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Toshihide Nakayama</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Tokyo University of Foreign Studies </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><a href="mailto:nakayama@aa.tufs.ac.jp" target="_blank">nakayama@aa.tufs.ac.jp</a><br></p>
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