<div dir="ltr">Please share widely:<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s1"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The Panini Award
2019 </span></span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br>
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<span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s1"></span><span style="font-kerning:none">At the </span></span><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s2"><span style="font-kerning:none">13th Biennial Conference in Pavia (September 4-6, 2019</span></span><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s1"><span style="font-kerning:none">), the Association for Linguistic Typology will award its
fourth Panini prize, for a </span>doctoral dissertation and PhD
thesis for which the evaluation procedures in force have been successfully
concluded (such as a thesis defense, viva, written examination, according to
the country)</span></span>
between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2018.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s1"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The Panini award
was established to encourage and honour 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. In order
to be eligible for the prize, the author must be (or become) a member of ALT. </span></span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s1"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Entries
will be judged by a committee of distinguished linguists, including judges who
have themselves written major reference grammars as well as typologists and
other grammar-consumers. The chair for the 2019 award is Hilary Chappell (</span></span><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s5"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-kerning:none">École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales</span></span></span><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s1"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-kerning:none">) at </span></span></span><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s6"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="mailto:paniniaward2019@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-kerning:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">paniniaward2019@gmail.com</span></span></a>.</span></span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s1"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Please
submit entries as .PDF files with embedded fonts. The deadline for submission is
</span></span>UTC-12:00<b> </b><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s2"><b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">December 15, 2018</span></b></span><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s1"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-kerning:none">. </span></span><span style="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/dissertations
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 class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s1">Any questions about
submissions should be directed to the chair, Hilary Chappell directly.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s1"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-m4039482838890051629gmail-s1"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The
prize winner for the Panini award will receive paid travel,
accommodation, and registration at the ALT conference in Pavia. They will also
be invited to present a plenary lecture setting out the typologically most
interesting aspects of the language. </span></span></p></span></span><div><br></div>-- <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></div>