A haiku consists of three lines, 5-7-5 syllables respectively.

To view the haikus written by our creative LL crew, click HERE.

The top 5 winners will get to choose one of these prizes generously donated by publishers and subscribers. However, the first winner will choose before the second winner, and so on.

Blackwell Publishing
  *A free one-year subscription to LINGUIST List Plus, a special collaboration between LINGUIST and Blackwell.   This service offers subscribers research benefits for a small fee:
    --Unlimited individual access to Linguistic Abstracts Online
    --Free full-text access to selected reference books
    --30% discount on Blackwell books
    --20% discount on Blackwell journals
    --Free shipping on books and journals
Suzette Haden Elgin
*a one-year subscription to Linguistics & Science Fiction Newsletter
Elly van Gelderen
*Grammaticalization as Economy
van Gelderen, E. (John Benjamins, 2004)
Speculative Grammarian
  *a SpecGram T-shirt
  *a SpecGram sticker or magnet
  *a Guest Editorship/Issue Dedication for the July 2006 issue (CLI.3)! The winner will have the chance to either be a guest editor of an issue of SpecGram, or to dedicate an issue to someone else.
PORTA LINGUARUM
*a free one-year subscription to PORTA LINGUARUM

Claus Pusch (on behalf of German Journal for Catalan Studies)
  * a copy of Español y catalán en contacto. La expresión deíctica en el castellano hablado en Lleida
   [Spanish and Catalan in contact. The expression of deixis in the Spanish spoken in Lleida] (Spanish text)
   Català, M. (German Journal for Catalan Studies, 2006)

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