<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please share widely:</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">On behalf of Jeff Good (ALT President), Dmitry Idiatov (Treasurer), and the juries for both the Greenberg and </font>Pāṇini<font face="arial, sans-serif"> committees, I am pleased to announce the award recipients and also those with high commendations.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div>





<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The </font><b>Pāṇini</b><font face="arial, sans-serif"> award was established to encourage and honor achievements in the field of documenting the world’s linguistic diversity through the writing of reference grammars. <span class="gmail-s1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-kerning:none">The winner is "</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">A Grammar of Gyeli" (Nadine GRIMM)</span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The jury also identified two grammars to be "highly commended." They are:</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif">"Grammaire du Khroskyabs de Wobzi" (Yunfan LAI)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif">"A Grammar of the Southern Cook Islands Maori" (Sally NICHOLAS)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">In addition, the jury also acknowledges three grammars that were "short-listed," in that they received a number of positive reviews from jury members. They are:</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif">"A Grammar of Fwe: A Bantu Language of Zambia and Namibia" (Hilde GUNNINK)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif">"The Milang Language: Grammar and Texts" (Yankee MODI)</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif">"A Grammar of Wampis" (Jaime German PEÑA)</font></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">The </span><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Joseph Greenberg Award</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> recognizes and honors the best piece of typological research embodied in a doctoral dissertation or equivalent. The winner is </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"Highly Complex Syllable Structure: A Typological Study of its Phonological Characteristics </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">and Diachronic Development" (</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Shelece EASTERDAY)</span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Additionally, the jury also identified two works to be "highly commended." They are:</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">"A Typological Study of Noun Phrase Structures in Australian Languages" (Dana LOUAGIE)</font></p>
<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">"A Typology of Antipassives, With Special R</span>eference to Mayan" (Raina HEATON)</font></p><p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><br></font></p><p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Congratulations are in order for all of these authors! The winners will present on their works at the upcoming <a href="https://sites.google.com/universitadipavia.it/alt2019/home">ALT 13 meeting</a> in Pavia, Italy.</font></p><div><br></div><div>We wish to thank all who submitted works for review to these committees. Both chairs indicated that there were many strong submissions, and that it was challenging to come to the above decisions, even though these named works clearly stood out as excellent. We are also grateful to the juries and the chairs for all of their work. A full report on the winning submissions and a full acknowledgement of members of both juries will be sent in the next ALT newsletter, which will be sent around in July.</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><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>President, <a href="http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/" target="_blank">Endangered Language Fund</a></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><i><br></i></div><div><i>Southern Illinois University Edwardsville</i><br></div><div><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<br></a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>