[Lingtyp] Call for submissions to the 5th Georg von der Gabelentz Award

[Luba Nikolova Vesselinova]

Dear All,


ALT now invites submissions to the 5th Georg von der Gabelentz Award. Please find details below as well as in the attached file.


Submissions are invited for the 5th Georg von der Gabelentz Award, for a grammar
published between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2024. The award will be
presented at the 16th Biennial Conference <https://alt-2026.sciencesconf.org/> of the Association for Linguistic Typology in
Lyon, France, July, 2026.

The Gabelentz Award was established to encourage and honour achievements in the field
of documenting the world’s linguistic diversity through the writing of reference grammars.
To be eligible, a grammar must provide a systematic, accessible, comprehensive, original,
insightful and typologically well-informed account of the workings of the language being
described, generously exemplified with natural data. Though the normal expectation
is that it would deal with a hitherto little-described language, outstanding grammars
of better-known languages or dialects thereof may also be considered if they achieve
major breakthroughs in a comprehensive understanding of the language. Grammars
may be written in any major language, subject to the availability of a sufficient and
geographically balanced set of jury members able to read the language.

Entries will be judged by a committee of half a dozen or more distinguished linguists,
including a number of judges who have themselves written major reference grammars
but also typologists and other categories of grammar users. The chair for the 2026 award
will be Roberto Zariquiey.

Prize winners for the Gabelentz award will receive support for travel, accommodation
and registration at the ALT conference in Lyon. They will also present a plenary lecture
setting out the typologically most interesting aspects of the language.

Any reference grammar published between January 1, 2021 and December 31,
2024 will be eligible provided that it meets the conditions above and that the author is a
member of the Association for Linguistic Typology; to become a member, please use the
form here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe75hSi9YLzP9QNGGPTQug408a9fVV02vsY4Gn4whScDw0mwg/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=103875624211600409320>. Grammars which have been submitted for the Panini Award (for a grammar
dissertation) can be submitted again for the Gabelentz Award provided that they have
been substantially revised and published by an academic publisher. Grammars which
won the Panini Award cannot be submitted at a later date for the Gabelentz Award. All
submissions for the Gabelentz Award thus need to have been published by an academic
publisher.

Submission instructions
Entries are normally submitted as a PDF file with embedded fonts to the Chair, Roberto
Zariquiey, with a copy to the ALT Conference Secretary, Ljuba Veselinova. Hard copies
can be sent in exceptional circumstances only (e.g. if the publisher does not agree to a
PDF version being submitted or if the author is not in a position to make a PDF version,
for whatever reason) and with prior agreement by the chair of the committee. If hard
copies are submitted, the exact number of copies to be submitted will vary according to
the size of the committee, but a minimum of six copies is to be expected. Submitted
hard copies remain the property of the members of the jury.

Addresses to use
Roberto Zariquiey rzariquiey at pucp.edu.pe
Ljuba Veselinova ljuba at ling.su.se

Deadline: January 31, 2026

Past award winners are presented here:
https://linguistic-typology.org/georg-von-der-gabelentz-award/

Chair of the 5th Georg von der Gabelentz Award
Roberto Zariquiey, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
https://www.pucp.edu.pe/profesor/roberto-zariquiey-biondi/publicaciones/


Best wishes,

Ljuba


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Ljuba Veselinova, Professor
Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46-8-16-2332 Fax: +46-8-15 5389
URL  : https://www.su.se/profiles/ljuba-1.182506
"We learn by going where we want to go."
                                          Julia Cameron
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