Greenberg Award at ALT10

[Jean-Christophe Verstraete]

Dear ALT members,

At the conference in Leipzig, ALT will present the Joseph Greenberg 
award for a typological dissertation defended between 2009 and 2012. The 
jury of the award has now made its decision. The award winner is:

Eva van Lier of the University of Amsterdam, who will receive the Joseph 
Greenberg award for her dissertation "Parts of speech and dependent 
clauses. A typological study", defended at the University of Amsterdam 
in 2009.

She will present a plenary lecture at ALT10 in Leipzig 
<http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2013_ALT10/>.

The jury also awarded two honorable mentions, to the following 
dissertations:

Natalya Stoynova. 2012. Типология глагольных показателей рефактива: 
модели полисемии и структура семантической зоны (Typology of the verbal 
markers of refactive: Polysemy patterns and structure of the semantic 
zone). Moscow: Moscow State University.

Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. 2010. Typological variation in grammatical 
relations. Leipzig: University of Leipzig.

We are very grateful to jury chairs Jae Jung Song and Seppo Kittilä, and 
to jury members Alexander Arkhipov, Isabelle Bril, Marina Chumakina, 
Denis Creissels, Holger Diessel, Heiko Narrog and Fernando Zúñiga for 
all the work they put into reading and evaluating the entries. A jury 
report will follow in the next issue of ALT News.

With best wishes,

Johanna Nichols (president)
JC Verstraete (secretary-treasurer)