<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear URA-LIST Community,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">as far as I know, quite a few of us attended to the SLE conference in Tallinn. Again, a huge but excellently organized event with a very pleasant atmosphere and lots of interesting presentations. In the name of our community, I would like to thank the Estonian organizers for their "Finno-Ugric" contribution to European linguistics. And, in particular, let us congratulate the award-winning presenters (<a href="http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/awards/award winners 2018.htm" class="">http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/awards/award%20winners%202018.htm</a> ), quite a few of whom in a way or another represent Uralic studies:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Postdoc Paper 2nd Prize: Éva Dékány, Katalin Gugán and Orsolya Tánczos: 'Khanty relative pronouns and the clauses that contain them'</div><div class="">Best Postdoc Paper 3rd Prize: Nele Ots and Piia Taremaa: 'Processing spontaneously spoken language: the interplay between phonetic, syntactic, and pragmatic cues in Estonian'; Ksenia Shagal: 'Towards a typology of participial systems'</div><div class="">Best Poster 2nd Prize: Irina Khomchenkova: 'Marker -ge in Hill Mari: is it really a comitative?'</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Warm regards,</div><div class="">jl</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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