Gabelentz Award at ALT10 in Leipzig

[Jean-Christophe Verstraete]

Dear ALT members,

At the conference in Leipzig, ALT will present the Georg von der 
Gabelentz award for a grammar published between 2009 and 2012. The jury 
of the award has now made its decision. The award winner is:

Sebastian Fedden of the University of Surrey, who will receive the 
Gabelentz award for "A Grammar of Mian", published by De Gruyter Mouton 
in 2011.

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

The jury also awarded three honorable mentions, to the following grammars:

Atoyebi, Joseph Dele. 2010. A reference Grammar of Oko: A West 
Benue-Congo Language of North-central Nigeria. Koeln: Koeppe.

Bowern, Claire. 2012. A Grammar of Bardi. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Klamer, Marian. 2010. A Grammar of Teiwa. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

We are very grateful to jury chair Hein van der Voort and to jury 
members Sonia Cristofaro, Mark Donohue, Nick Enfield, Katharina Haude, 
Birgit Hellwig and Soeren Wichmann 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)