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<p class="gmail-p1">[Sent on behalf of Kristine Hildebrandt.]</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1">Dear all,</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">I gives me great pleasure to announce the recipients of Association for Linguistic Typology’s Greenberg and the Gabelentz awards.<br class="">
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<p class="gmail-p2">At the conference in Canberra in December 2017, ALT will present the Joseph Greenberg award for a typological dissertation defended in 2015-2016.<br class="">
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<p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s2">Ksenia Shagal</span><span class="gmail-s1"> of University of Helsinki will receive the </span><span class="gmail-s1">Greenberg award for her dissertation
</span><span class="gmail-s2">“Towards a typology of </span>participles”.<br class="">
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<p class="gmail-p2"><span class="gmail-s1">We are very grateful to Greenberg award jury chair Sonia Cristofaro, and to jury members </span><span class="gmail-s3">Denis Creissels, Volker Gast, Jean Christophe Verstraete, Bernhard Waelchli, and Doris Payne,</span><span class="gmail-s4">
for the work they put into reading and evaluating the entries.</span><br class="">
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<p class="gmail-p6">At the conference, ALT will also present the Georg von der Gabelentz award for achievements in documenting the world’s linguistic diversity through the writing of a reference grammar (published between 2013-2016).<br class="">
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<p class="gmail-p6">Diana Forker will receive the Gabelentz award for her <i class="">
Grammar of Hinuq</i>, a Nakh-Daghestanian language, published by De Gruyter in 2013.<br class="">
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<p class="gmail-p6">We are likewise very grateful to Gabelentz award jury chair Toshihide Nakayama, and to jury members Bernd Heine, Johanna Nichols, Maria Polinsky, Bernard Comrie, Ekaterina Gruzdeva, and Honore Watanabe, for their effort and time spent in
the reading and evaluating of the entries for this award.<br class="">
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<p class="gmail-p6">Both award recipients will present on their research at the Canberra ALT meeting. Please visit this page for more information:
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http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/alt-conference-2017/program/</a>.</p>
<p class="gmail-p6">A fuller jury report for both awards will be released before the conference.<br class="">
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<p class="gmail-p6">With best wishes,<br class="">
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<p class="gmail-p6">Jeff Good (president)<br class="">
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<p class="gmail-p7"><span class="gmail-s1">Kristine Hildebrandt (secretary)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p7"><span class="gmail-s1">Dmitry Idiatov (treasurer)</span></p>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Orche<br class="">
('Thanks' in Manange)
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<i class="">Kristine A. Hildebrandt</i></div>
<div class=""><i style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Associate Professor, <a href="http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/english/" target="_blank" class="">Department of English Language & Literature</a></i><i class=""><br class="">
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<div class=""><i class="">Editor, <a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics" target="_blank" class="">
Himalayan Linguistics</a></i></div>
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