[RNLD] FW: [Lingtyp] ALT 13 (2019, Pavia) Panini Award, Invitation for Submissions

[Felicity Meakins]

The Panini Award 2019

At the 13th Biennial Conference in Pavia (September 4-6, 2019), the Association for Linguistic Typology will award its fourth Panini prize, for a 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) between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2018.

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.


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 (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) at paniniaward2019 at gmail.com<mailto:paniniaward2019 at gmail.com>.


Please submit entries as .PDF files with embedded fonts. The deadline for submission is UTC-12:00 December 15, 2018. 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. Any questions about submissions should be directed to the chair, Hilary Chappell directly.

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.

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Kristine A. Hildebrandt
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