Awards at ALT9 in Hong Kong

[Jean-Christophe Verstraete]

Dear ALT members,

At the conference in Hong Kong, ALT will present its second Panini Award 
for a grammar passed as a dissertation between 2007 and 2010. In view of 
the large number of submissions, the jury has decided to present two 
awards. The award winners are:

Mark Post of James Cook University (Australia), who will receive the 
award for A Grammar of Galo (La Trobe University, 2007)

Antoinette Schapper of Leiden University (The Netherlands), who will 
receive the award for Bunaq. A Papuan Language of Central Timor 
(Australian National University, 2009).

In addition, honorable mentions go to the following grammars:
- Kofi Yakpo. A grammar of Pichi (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2009) - 
Seino van Breugel. A grammar of Atong (La Trobe University, 2008)
- René Lacroix. Description du dialecte laze d’Arhavi (caucasique du 
sud, Turquie). Grammaire et textes (Université Lyon-2, 2009)
- Rosa Vallejos Yopán. A grammar of Kokama-Kokamilla (University of 
Oregon, 2010)
- Claudia Wegener. A grammar of Savosavo, a Papuan language of the 
Solomon islands (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2008)

The jury of the Greenberg Award has decided to postpone the award to 
2013, because of the small number of valid submissions for the 2011 round.

We are very grateful to Keren Rice and Isabelle Bril, who chaired the 
Panini and Greenberg juries, and to the members of the juries, for all 
the work they put into reading and evaluating the entries. Jury reports 
will follow in the next issue of ALT News.

With best wishes,

Anna Siewierska (president)
J-C Verstraete (secretary-treasurer)