Naylor Prize Announcement

[Susan Pitcock]

ANNOUNCING:

The Kenneth E. Naylor Young Scholar's Prize in South Slavic and Balkan
Linguistics


In memory of Kenneth E. Naylor, Balkanist and South Slavic linguist par
excellence, the Naylor Professorship in South Slavic Linguistics in the
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at The
Ohio State University has established a prize of $500 for the best
unpublished paper by a young scholar on a topic in Balkan or South Slavic
linguistics.

We thus solicit papers written in English by young scholarsQ defined for
this competition as an RABDS (who has passed the General or Candidacy
Examinations and is working on the dissertation) or someone who is no more
than three years beyond the awarding of the Ph.D. degree at the time of
submission Q that treats some topic either in Balkan linguistics, taking a
comparative approach and treating at least two languages of Southeastern
Europe, or in any of the South Slavic languages on their own or in relation
to the other languages.

In order to be eligible, the submitted paper must be unpublished, and not
under consideration for publication at the time of submission; however,
papers that have appeared in an issue of a RWorking PapersS series are
still eligible for consideration in the competition.  Those that have
appeared in conference proceedings volumes of any sort are not eligible,
unless they are substantially revised and/or expanded.  Written versions of
papers that have been presented at a conference are eligible, as are
chapters of dissertations.  In all cases, however, the Committee will look
for self-contained scholarly articles of publishable quality that treat
some relevant topic (as spelled out above) in an interesting and insightful
way, following any appropriate approach (historical, synchronic,
sociolinguistic, etc.) and any theoretical framework.

Interested scholars should submit four copies of the paper along with an
abstract (no longer than 250 words) and a cover sheet with the title of the
paper, the authorUs name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address,
phone and fax numbers, date of General Examination or Ph.D. (as the case
may be), and social security number, to:

Naylor Prize Competition
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
232 Cunz Hall
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio  USA  43210.

The deadline for receipt of the papers in the Department for the first
competition is June 30, 2000.  The Screening Committee, consisting of the
Naylor Professor and former speakers in the annual Kenneth E. Naylor
Memorial Lecture series, expects to make the announcement of the winner by
October 1, 2000.  The winning paper will be published in an issue of the
journal Balkanistica.  The Committee reserves the right not to award the
Prize in a given year.

Please address any inquiries to the Naylor Professor, Brian D. Joseph, at
the above address or via e-mail at joseph.1 at osu.edu.