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<p>ALT now invites submissions to the <span>5th Georg von der Gabelentz Award. Please find details below as well as in the attached file.</span></p>
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<div>Submissions are invited for the 5th Georg von der Gabelentz Award, for a grammar</div>
<div>published between <b>January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2024</b>. The award will be</div>
<div>presented at the <a href="https://alt-2026.sciencesconf.org/" class="OWAAutoLink">
16th Biennial Conference </a>of the Association for Linguistic Typology in</div>
<div>Lyon, France, July, 2026.</div>
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<div>The Gabelentz Award was established to encourage and honour achievements in the field</div>
<div>of documenting the world’s linguistic diversity through the writing of reference grammars.</div>
<div>To be eligible, a grammar must provide a systematic, accessible, comprehensive, original,</div>
<div>insightful and typologically well-informed account of the workings of the language being</div>
<div>described, generously exemplified with natural data. Though the normal expectation</div>
<div>is that it would deal with a hitherto little-described language, outstanding grammars</div>
<div>of better-known languages or dialects thereof may also be considered if they achieve</div>
<div>major breakthroughs in a comprehensive understanding of the language. Grammars</div>
<div>may be written in any major language, subject to the availability of a sufficient and</div>
<div>geographically balanced set of jury members able to read the language.</div>
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<div>Entries will be judged by a committee of half a dozen or more distinguished linguists,</div>
<div>including a number of judges who have themselves written major reference grammars</div>
<div>but also typologists and other categories of grammar users. The chair for the 2026 award</div>
<div>will be Roberto Zariquiey.</div>
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<div>Prize winners for the Gabelentz award will receive support for travel, accommodation</div>
<div>and registration at the ALT conference in Lyon. They will also present a plenary lecture</div>
<div>setting out the typologically most interesting aspects of the language.</div>
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<div>Any reference grammar published between <b>January 1, 2021 and December 31,</b></div>
<div><b>2024 </b>will be eligible provided that it meets the conditions above and that the author is a</div>
<div>member of the Association for Linguistic Typology; to become a member, please use the</div>
<div>form <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe75hSi9YLzP9QNGGPTQug408a9fVV02vsY4Gn4whScDw0mwg/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=103875624211600409320" class="OWAAutoLink">
here</a>. Grammars which have been submitted for the Panini Award (for a grammar</div>
<div>dissertation) can be submitted again for the Gabelentz Award provided that they have</div>
<div>been substantially revised and published by an academic publisher. Grammars which</div>
<div>won the Panini Award cannot be submitted at a later date for the Gabelentz Award. All</div>
<div>submissions for the Gabelentz Award thus need to have been published by an academic</div>
<div>publisher.</div>
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<div><b>Submission instructions</b></div>
<div>Entries are normally submitted as a PDF file with embedded fonts to the Chair, Roberto</div>
<div>Zariquiey, with a copy to the ALT Conference Secretary, Ljuba Veselinova. Hard copies</div>
<div>can be sent in exceptional circumstances only (e.g. if the publisher does not agree to a</div>
<div>PDF version being submitted or if the author is not in a position to make a PDF version,</div>
<div>for whatever reason) and with prior agreement by the chair of the committee. If hard</div>
<div>copies are submitted, the exact number of copies to be submitted will vary according to</div>
<div>the size of the committee, but a minimum of six copies is to be expected. Submitted</div>
<div>hard copies remain the property of the members of the jury.</div>
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<div><b>Addresses to use</b></div>
<div>Roberto Zariquiey rzariquiey@pucp.edu.pe</div>
<div>Ljuba Veselinova ljuba@ling.su.se</div>
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<div><b>Deadline: January 31, 2026</b></div>
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<div>Past award winners are presented here:</div>
<div><a href="https://linguistic-typology.org/georg-von-der-gabelentz-award/" class="OWAAutoLink">https://linguistic-typology.org/georg-von-der-gabelentz-award/</a> </div>
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<div><b>Chair of the 5th Georg von der Gabelentz Award</b></div>
<div>Roberto Zariquiey, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.pucp.edu.pe/profesor/roberto-zariquiey-biondi/publicaciones/" class="OWAAutoLink">https://www.pucp.edu.pe/profesor/roberto-zariquiey-biondi/publicaciones/</a> </div>
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Best wishes,</span>
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<p><span>Ljuba</span></p>
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Ljuba Veselinova, Professor<br>
Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University, <span style="font-size:12.8px">S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden</span></div>
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URL : <a href="https://www.su.se/profiles/ljuba-1.182506" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPNoLP">https://www.su.se/profiles/ljuba-1.182506</a>
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