The Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) will be continuing its Junior Award for the best piece of typological research embodied in a doctoral dissertation or equivalent. The next round of these awards, to be decided for the Paris meeting of the ALT next year, will be for a thesis accepted between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2006. The award will consist of payment of travel, per diem expenses and registration fee to attend the ALT VII Conference, to be held in Paris, September 25 to September 28, 2007, and to present a synopsis or element of the prize-winning work as a plenary lecture at that meeting. From 2007 this Award will be known as the Joseph Greenberg Award, in honour of the late Joseph Greenberg's fundamental
contributions to typology and the interest he showed in encouraging young researchers.
To be eligible, those submitting their manuscript must be members of the ALT. They are asked to submit their dissertation by email in pdf format, with all non-standard fonts in Unicode, to the Chair of the Jury, to arrive no later than February 1, 2007. If this proves technically difficult, the candidate is asked to discuss the problem with the chair.
A jury, consisting of 5 ALT members, will be appointed by ALT's President, appropriate to the work submitted. The chair will be
Eva Schultze-Berndt
Linguistics
Karl-Franzens- Universitä t Graz
Merangasse 70
A-8010 Graz
Austria
Schultze-Berndt@ ling.uni- graz.at
For information on the ALT (and on joining) consult:
http://www.lancs. ac.uk/fss/ organisations/ alt/
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