<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Please share widely:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">The Joseph Greenberg Award 2019</span><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Association for Linguistic
Typology's <b>Joseph Greenberg Award</b> recognizes and honours the
best piece of typological research embodied in a doctoral dissertation or
equivalent in 2017-2018. Theses are eligible if they were defended by
a university between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2018. The award will
consist of payment of travel, per diem expenses and registration fee to attend
the ALT XIII Conference, to be held in Pavia, Italy, September
4-6, 2019, and to present a synopsis or element of the prize-winning work
as a plenary lecture at that meeting. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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". </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To be eligible, those submitting their dissertation
must be members of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) or must join.
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. The general deadline
for submission is UTC-12:00<b> December 15, 2018</b>. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">However, as an
international organization, ALT recognizes that different countries have
different timelines and systems for the defense of dissertations, and that this
deadline could exclude some theses that will be completed at the end of 2018.
Candidates for the award who will officially defend their dissertations by December
31, 2018 should contact the award committee chair well in advance, by December 1,
2018, if they would like to negotiate an alternate deadline that can be no
later than January 15, 2019. Candidates who are unsure of whether the system
for completing dissertations at their institutions makes them eligible for this
round of the award are also encouraged to contact the award committee chair as
soon as possible to verify their eligibility.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A jury, consisting of about ten ALT
members, will be appointed by the award committee chair, in consultation with
ALT's President, appropriate to the work submitted. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The chair will be Peter Arkadiev (</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Institute of Slavic
Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences & Russian</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">State
University for the Humanities</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">), and submissions (in .PDF format)
should be sent to this email address: <a href="mailto:alpgurev@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(26,115,232)">alpgurev@gmail.com</span></a>.
Queries may also be sent to the same email address.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Orche<br>('Thanks' in Manange)<div><br><i>Kristine A. Hildebrandt</i></div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">Associate Professor, <a href="http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/english/" target="_blank">Department of English Language & Literature</a></i><i><br></i></div><div><i>Secretary, <a href="http://www.linguistic-typology.org/" target="_blank">Association for Linguistic Typology</a><br></i></div><div><i>Editor, <a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics" target="_blank">Himalayan Linguistics</a></i></div><div><span style="font-size:small">Check out our </span><a href="https://mananglanguages.isg.siue.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small" target="_blank">Manang Languages</a><span style="font-size:small"> project page!</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:small">Check out our </span><a href="https://iris.siue.edu/nepal-earthquakes/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small" target="_blank">Nepal earthquakes documentation project page</a><span style="font-size:small">, too!</span><span style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><i>Southern Illinois University Edwardsville</i><div><i>Box 1431<br>Edwardsville, IL 62026 U.S.A.<br>618-650-3991 (department voicemail)</i><div><i><a href="mailto:khildeb@siue.edu" target="_blank">khildeb@siue.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.siue.edu/~khildeb" target="_blank">http://www.siue.edu/~khildeb</a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>