[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] CfA: Naylor Prize 2001

[Agron Alibali]

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<P>  <B><I>Florian Bieber
<bieberf at gmx.net></I></B> wrote: 
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Bieber Tue May 14 00:41:04 2002<BR>To:
balkans at yahoogroups.com<BR>From: Florian Bieber
<BIEBERF at GMX.NET><BR>Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 09:41:04
+0200<BR>Subject: [balkans] CfA: Naylor Prize
2001<BR><BR>ANNOUNCING -- The 2002 Competition for:
<BR> <BR> The Kenneth E. Naylor Young
Scholar's Prize in South Slavic <BR> and Balkan
Linguistics <BR> <BR> <BR> In memory of
Kenneth E. Naylor, Balkanist and South Slavic
<BR> linguist par excellence, the Naylor
Professorship in South Slavic <BR> Linguistics in
the Department of Slavic and East European
<BR> Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State
University <BR> established in 1999 a prize of
$500 for the best unpublished paper <BR> by a
young scholar on a topic in Balkan or South Slavic
linguistics. <BR> The third such competition is
now officially open. <BR> <BR> We thus
solicit papers written in English by young scholars -
<BR> defined for this competition as an advanced
graduate student (who <BR> is beyond his/her
first year of study) or someone who is no more
<BR> than three years beyond the awarding of the
Ph.D. degree at the <BR> time of submission --
that treats some topic either in Balkan
<BR> linguistics, taking a comparative approach
and treating at least two <BR> languages of
Southeastern Europe, or in any of the South Slavic
<BR> languages on their own or in relation to the
other languages of the <BR> Balkans.
<BR> <BR> In order to be eligible, the
submitted paper must be unpublished, <BR> and not
under consideration for publication at the time of
<BR> submission; however, papers that have
appeared in an issue of a <BR> "Working Papers"
series are still eligible for consideration in the
<BR> competition. Those that have appeared in
conference proceedings <BR> volumes of any sort
are not eligible, unless they are substantially
<BR> revised and/or expanded. Written versions of
papers that have <BR> been presented at a
conference are eligible, as are papers based on
<BR> chapters of dissertations or M.A. theses
(but not raw dissertation <BR> chapters or M.A.
theses themselves). In all cases, however, the
<BR> Committee will look for self-contained
scholarly articles of <BR> publishable quality
that treat some relevant topic (as spelled out
<BR> above) in an interesting and insightful way,
following any <BR> appropriate approach
(historical, synchronic, sociolinguistic, etc.)
<BR> and any theoretical framework.
<BR> <BR> Interested scholars should submit
four copies of the paper along <BR> with an
abstract (no longer than 250 words) and a cover sheet
with <BR> the title of the paper, the author's
name, affiliation, mailing <BR> address, e-mail
address, phone and fax numbers, date of entrance
<BR> into an appropriate graduate program or of
awarding of Ph.D. (as <BR> the case may be), and
US social security number, if the author has
<BR> one (having one, though, is not a
requirement), to: <BR> <BR> Naylor Prize
Competition <BR> Dept. of Slavic & East
European Languages & Literatures <BR> 232
Cunz Hall <BR> The Ohio State University
<BR> Columbus, Ohio USA 43210-1215.
<BR> <BR> The deadline for receipt of the
papers in the Department for this, <BR> the
third, competition is SEPTEMBER 30, 2002. The
Screening <BR> Committee, consisting of the
Naylor Professor and former speakers <BR> in the
annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture series,
expects <BR> to make the announcement of the
winner by January 30, 2003. The <BR> winning
paper will be published (after any necessary
revisions) in <BR> an issue of the journal
Balkanistica. The Committee reserves the
<BR> right not to award the Prize in a given
year. <BR> <BR> Please address any inquiries
to the Naylor Professor, Brian D. <BR> Joseph, at
the above address or via e-mail at
joseph.1 at osu.edu.<BR>
<HR>
<BR> Results of 2001 Competition for the Kenneth
E. Naylor Young Scholar's<BR>Prize in South Slavic and
Balkan Linguistics:<BR><BR> First Place Prize of
$500 awarded to:<BR><BR> Daniela Trenkic
(Podtdoctoral Researcher, Heriot-Watt
University,<BR>Edinburgh  (Ph.D., Cambridge,
2000)):  "Definiteness as a Grammatical Category
and as<BR><BR> Category of Meaning in
Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian"<BR><BR> Abstract: 
In this examination of the nature of nominal
definiteness<BR> in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, two
aspects of definiteness are<BR> distinguished and
defined:  definiteness as a grammatical
category<BR> and definiteness as a category of
meaning.  The latter is taken as
a<BR> universal category relating to the
identifiability of nominal referents<BR> in
communication (cf. Hawkins 1991), whereas the former
is<BR> language-specific, relating to
semantic/pragmatic definiteness as
the<BR> grammaticalisation of the category of
meaning (cf. Lyons 1999).<BR> Traditional views
that relate word-order, adjectival 'definite
aspect',<BR> and demonstratives to grammatical
definiteness are considered here<BR> and found
lacking.  Rather, it is proposed  that
definiteness is not<BR> grammaticalised in
Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, and that
the<BR> definiteness of nominal referents is
inferred through general<BR> principles of
goal-oriented behaviour.<BR><BR><BR> Runner-up
Prize of $50 awarded to:<BR> Olga Arnaudova
(Ph.D. candidate, University of Ottawa):  "Why
do<BR> clitics (sometimes) co-occur with
DPs:  The Case of
Bulgarian"<BR><BR> Abstract:  In this study
of the cooccurrence of clitic pronouns
in<BR> Bulgarian with full nominal phrases, it is
argued that the presence of<BR> the resumptive
clitic has a grammatical function, namely
to<BR> 'externalize' an argument with
implications for the focus structure of<BR> the
sentence.  It is claimed that clitics in
Bulgarian are argument-<BR> variables,
base-generated within the Verb Phrase in
argument<BR> positions which later move to head
position of Tense to license<BR> discourse
operators related to inferentiality.  Those
discourse<BR> operators can optionally host a
Determiner Phrase in their Specifier<BR> position
and realize a higher predication.  From this
perspective, the<BR> motivation behind the
formation of the clitic cluster becomes
clear:<BR> in syntax, clitics move to license
discourse-related operators. 
This<BR> analysis explains why clitics are never
found in the domain of focus,<BR> as well as the
thematic 'redundancy' in Clitic
Left-Dislocation<BR> constructions.  It is
also shown that in constructions such as
(focus)<BR> topicalization, there is no clitic
since the moved constituent leaves a<BR> gap and,
independently the needs of the predication do not
require
an<BR> argument-variable.<BR><BR><BR> These
two young South Slavic scholars join Dr. Grant
Lundberg of<BR> the Department of Germanic and
Slavic Languages of Brigham<BR> Young University
and Dr. Svetlana Godjevac, of the University
of<BR> California, San Diego, the First Prize and
Runner-up respectively in<BR> the 2000 Naylor
Prize competition.<BR><BR>  For more information
on the competition and the winners,
please<BR> contact:<BR><BR> Brian D. Joseph,
Naylor Professor<BR> Department of Slavic &
East European Languages & Literatures<BR> The
Ohio State University<BR> Columbus, Ohio 
USA 
43210-1215<BR> joseph.1 at osu.edu<BR><BR><!--
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