FYI: Mary Haas Award, Language Use List
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Keren Rice
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Dear Colleague: I am writing to you about The Mary R. Haas Award, presented annually by The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. I would appreciate it if you could bring the following annoucement to the attention of interested faculty and students in your department or program. The Mary R. Haas Award is presented to an unpublished manuscript from a younger scholar that makes a significant substantive contribution to the knowledge of American Indian languages. The selection committee is now accepting submissions for the 1999 Mary R. Haas Award. Submissions should be monographs (dissertations are preferred) or other works reflecting substantial effort, including full dictionaries or edited collections of texts. Scholars with or without academic affiliation are encouraged to submit their work, but holders of tenured faculty positions are not normally eligible. The selection committee has not specified how recently a work should have been completed, so any dissertation of reasonably recent vintage dealing specifically with a Native American language or languages qualifies. A single clean copy of the manuscript (unbound if possible) should be submitted, together with a short letter describing the circumstances of the work. The awardee will be selected by a standing committee of the Society including Sally McLendon, Keren Rice, Louanna Furbee, and Douglas R. Parks. Although the award carries no stipend, SSILA will work with the author to arrange for the publication of the winning manuscript, where possible in the University of Nebraska Press series, Studies in the Anthropology of the North American Indian. The committee will only be able to consider manuscripts written in English. Manuscripts should be mailed to: Keren Rice, SSILA Book Award, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Toronto, 130 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 3H1 (tel: 416/978-1763; e-mail: rice@chass.utoronto.ca). Since Prof. Rice will photocopy and distribute copies to the other committee members, a loose copy is preferred. All submissions should reach her no later than August 15, 1999. The 1998 winner of the Mary R. Haas Award was Anna M. S. Berge, for her University of California - Berkeley dissertation, Topic and Discourse Structure in West Greenlandic Agreement Constructions. The work, in the words of the selection committee, "stands out in providing a clear and accessible discourse-based analysis of ergativity, switch-reference, topic, and theme in West Greenlandic, demonstrating both breadth and depth in a difficult and important area of West Greenlandic structure." It represents "a valuable permanen contribution to Eskimo linguistics, to the study of discourse in the native languages of the Americas, and to the study of discourse in general." Sincerely, Keren Rice |
