ALT News No. 35

Fri Jul 9 09:52:25 UTC 2004

ALT News No. 35

July 2004

1. Junior Award 2005

2. ALT VI

3. ALT VII

4. Recently published

1. Junior Award 2005

The Association for Linguistic Typology proposes to make a Junior Award
for the best piece of typological research embodied in a doctoral
dissertation or equivalent submitted between 1 January 2001 and 31
December 2004. The award will consist of payment of travel, per diem
expenses and registration fee to attend ALT VI, to be held in Padang,
West Sumatra, Indonesia from Thursday July 21 to Monday July 25, 2005,
and to present a synopsis or element of the prize-winning work as a
plenary lecture at that meeting.

Those wishing to be considered for this award are asked to submit FIVE
copies of their dissertation to the Chair of the Jury, to arrive no
later than February 1 2005. Work submitted will not be returned.
Applicants who encounter financial difficulties in preparing and mailing
five copies of their thesis, etc., may contact the President of ALT for
a subvention. If their application is approved, they will be asked to
mail one copy of their thesis, etc., and ALT will cover the costs of
preparing the other copies.

A jury, consisting of 5 ALT members, will be appointed by ALT's
President, appropriate to the work submitted. The chairman will be

William McGregor

Department of Linguistics

University of Aarhus

Nobel Park

Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7

DK-8000 Aarhus C

Denmark

linwmg at hum.au.dk <mailto:linwmg at hum.au.dk>

In 2003 ALT launched a similar competition, but the paucity of the
contributions made ALT decide not to give any award. However, authors
who sent their dissertations in 2003 need not resubmit their work.
Unless they notify William McGregor, their work is entered in the
present competition.

2. ALT VI

News on ALT VI will be posted at the conference's own

     http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/alt/ <http://www.eva.mpg.de/%7Egil/alt/>

3. ALT VII

The Paris typological community had an offer to host ALT VII in the
summer of 2007. June 1 was the deadline for alternative proposals. In
the absence of any competing proposals, ALT gratefully accepts the offer.

4. Recently published

Apart from directly commissioning reviews, LT solicits offers to review
books -- those listed in this regular feature of ALT News or whichever
others you'd like to add on your own understanding of the attribute
"typologically relevant".  For purposes of book reviewing in LT, what
matters is that REVIEWS are done from a distinctively typological angle,
whatever angles the books reviewed are done from.  Reviewers so
intentioned please get in touch with me, that is:

frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de <mailto:frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de>

Drop me a line with bibliographical particulars if you want to make sure
your own relevant publications will be included in the next listing.
And remind your publisher to send a review copy to:

LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY,

Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz,

D-78457 Konstanz, Germany.

GRAMMAR WATCH will be back in one of the next ALT News.  But do feel
free to offer to review grammars for LT (and therefore from a
distinctively typological angle) at any time.

Blevins, Juliette (2004). Evolutionary Phonology: The Emergence of Sound
Patterns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bowern, Claire & Harold Koch (eds.) (2004). Australian Languages:
Classification and the Comparative Method. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Chung, Sandra & William A. Ladusaw (2003). Restriction and Saturation.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. [On indefiniteness, esp. in Maori and
Chamorro.]

Cser, András (2004). The Typology and Modelling of Obstruent Lenition
and Fortition Processes. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.

Evans, Nicholas (ed.) (2003). The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern
Australia: Comparative Studies of the Continent's Most Linguistically
Complex Region. (Pacific Linguistics, 552.) Canberra: Australian
National University.

Gehling, Thomas (2004). 'Ich', 'du' und andere: Eine sprachtypologische
Studie zu den grammatischen Kategorien "Person" und "Numerus". Münster: IT.

Haspelmath, Martin (ed.) (2004). Coordinating Constructions. (TSL, 58.)
Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Hinrichs, Uwe, with Uwe Büttner (eds.) (2004). Die europäischen Sprachen
auf dem Wege zum analytischen Sprachtyp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Lefebvre, Claire (2004). Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole
Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Moder, Carol Lynn & Aida Martinovic-Zic (eds.) (2004). Discourse across
Languages and Cultures. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

McGregor, William B. (2004). The Languages of the Kimberley, Western
Australia. London: RoutledgeCurzon.

Müller, Friedrich (2004). Grundriß der Sprachwissenschaft. 4 vols.
Hildesheim: Olms. (Reprint of original edition, Wien, 1876-88.)

Saxena, Anju (ed.) (2004). Himalayan Languages: Past and Present.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Yeon, Jaehoon (2003). Korean Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and
Meaning. (Saffron Korean Linguistics Series, 1.) London: Saffron. [A
functional-typological approach, with particular reference to
grammatical relations.]

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Nick Evans[President]

Linguistics

University of Melbourne                tel +61 3 8344 8988

Parkville Victoria                     fax +61 3 8344 8990

Australia

E-mail:                 n.evans at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au

Frans Plank [Editor-in-chief, Linguistic Typology]

Sprachwissenschaft

Universität Konstanz

D-78457 Konstanz                   tel + 49 7531 88 26 56

Germany                            fax + 49 7531 88 27 41

E-mail:                       frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de

Johan van der Auwera [Secretary-Treasurer]

Linguistiek

Universiteit Antwerpen

B-2610 Antwerpen                     tel + 32 3 820 27 76

Belgium                              fax + 32 3 820 27 62

E-mail:                       johan.vanderauwera at ua.ac.be

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