Prize Competition Results--CORRECTION!!!

[Brian Joseph]

NOTE:  The previous announcement I sent you about the Prize results
had a small error in it, which is corrected in the version below;
please, if possible, trash the previous one and distribute this
one instead.  Sorry for the inconvenience and the mix-up on this.

--Brian

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Dear Slavicist colleagues:

Please take note of this announcement of the results from the most
recent Naylor Prize competition, and feel free to pass word of this
on to anyone else you think might be interested.

My thanks in advance,

--Brian

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*       Brian D. Joseph                                                      *
*       Professor of Linguistics & Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of            *
*            South Slavic Linguistics                                        *
*       Editor, _Language_                                                   *
*       The Ohio State University                                            *
*       Columbus, Ohio  USA  43210-1298                                      *
*       Phone:  614-292-4981 / Fax:  614-292-8833                            *
*       e-mail:  joseph.1 at osu.edu                                            *
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**********ANNOUNCING**********

Results of 2001 Competition for the Kenneth E. Naylor Young Scholar's Prize
in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics:


First Place Prize of $500 awarded to:

Daniela Trenkic (Postdoctoral Researcher, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
(Ph.D., Cambridge, 2000) ):  "Definiteness as a Grammatical Category and as a
Category of Meaning in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian"

Abstract:  In this examination of the nature of nominal definiteness
in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, two aspects of definiteness are
distinguished and defined:  definiteness as a grammatical category
and definiteness as a category of meaning.  The latter is taken as a
universal category relating to the identifiability of nominal referents
in communication (cf. Hawkins 1991), whereas the former is
language-specific, relating to semantic/pragmatic definiteness as the
grammaticalisation of the category of meaning (cf. Lyons 1999).
Traditional views that relate word-order, adjectival 'definite aspect',
and demonstratives to grammatical definiteness are considered here
and found lacking.  Rather, it is proposed  that definiteness is not
grammaticalised in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, and that the
definiteness of nominal referents is inferred through general
principles of goal-oriented behaviour.


Runner-up Prize of $50 awarded to:

Olga Arnaudova (Ph.D. candidate, University of Ottawa):  "Why do
clitics (sometimes) co-occur with DPs:  The Case of Bulgarian"

Abstract:  In this study of the cooccurrence of clitic pronouns in
Bulgarian with full nominal phrases, it is argued that the presence of
the resumptive clitic has a grammatical function, namely to
'externalize' an argument with implications for the focus structure of
the sentence.  It is claimed that clitics in Bulgarian are argument-
variables, base-generated within the Verb Phrase in argument
positions which later move to head position of Tense to license
discourse operators related to inferentiality.  Those discourse
operators can optionally host a Determiner Phrase in their Specifier
position and realize a higher predication.  From this perspective, the
motivation behind the formation of the clitic cluster becomes clear:
in syntax, clitics move to license discourse-related operators.  This
analysis explains why clitics are never found in the domain of focus,
as well as the thematic 'redundancy' in Clitic Left-Dislocation
constructions.  It is also shown that in constructions such as (focus)
topicalization, there is no clitic since the moved constituent leaves a
gap and, independently the needs of the predication do not require an
argument-variable.


These two young South Slavic scholars join Dr. Grant Lundberg of
the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages of Brigham
Young University and Dr. Svetlana Godjevac, of the University of
California, San Diego, the First Prize and Runner-up respectively in
the 2000 Naylor Prize competition.

For more information on the competition and the winners, please
contact:

        Brian D. Joseph, Naylor Professor
        Department of Slavic & East European Languages & Literatures
        The Ohio State University
        Columbus, Ohio  USA  43210-1215
        joseph.1 at osu.edu

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