LINGUIST List 9.266

Sun Feb 22 1998

FYI: FoLLI Dissertation Prize

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1. Erhard Hinrichs, FoLLI Dissertation Prize

	 FoLLI Dissertation Prize for Outstanding Dissertation
		 in Language, Logic and Computation

	 Sponsored by Kluwer Academic Publishers

			 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The Foundation for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI) is inviting
nominations for the first competition of the FoLLI Dissertation Prize
to be awarded annually to an outstanding dissertation in the fields of
Language, Logic and Computation.

FoLLI gratefully acknowledges sponsorship of this prize by Kluwer
Academic Publishers and by funds from the Spinoza Prize awarded to
Johan van Benthem. We are happy to announce that an amount of 2750
ECU in prize money to be allocated to one or more award recipients.
Kluwer Academic Publishers will also invite prize recipients to submit
their Ph.D. theses as book proposals to existing book series published
by Kluwer. It is at the disgression of the Prize Committee to
allocate the prize money to a single nominee or to divide the prize
among two or three recipients.

Eligibility: Ph.D. theses in the fields of Language, Logic and
 Computation by authors who completed the Ph.D. degree
 between 1/1/96 and 12/31/97.

Submission Details: - a letter of nomination by the thesis supervisor.
 (N.B. Self-applications by Ph.D. holders are
 not possible. Each application must be sponsored
 by the thesis supervisor.)

 The letter from the student's Ph.D. advisor
 should verify that the degree was conferred 
 between 1/1/96 and 12/31/97.

 - two additional letters of support, including
 at least one letter from a referee not 
 affiliated with the academic institution that
 awarded the Ph.D. degree.
 
 - an abstract of the thesis, prepared by the
 author of the thesis and not to exceed five
 pages in length
 
 All materials have to be sent as hard-copy to 
 
 Prof. Dr. Erhard W. Hinrichs
 FoLLI Prize Committee
 Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
 Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen
 Wilhelmstr. 113
 D-72074 Tuebingen
 Germany
 
Submissions Deadline: All materials have to be received by April 15, 1998.
 

Prize Committee:

Anne Abeille, Universite Paris 7 
Patrick Blackburn, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken
Jan van Eijck, University of Utrecht and CWI, Amsterdam
Erhard Hinrichs, Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen; Committee Chair 
Makoto Kanazawa, Chiba University
Bob Kasper, The Ohio State University
Edward L. Keenan, University of California at Los Angeles
Uwe Moennich, Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen
Larry Moss, Indiana University
Craige Roberts, The Ohio State Univiversity
William Rounds, University of Michigan


More information about activities of FoLLI, including how to become a 
FoLLI member, can be found at url:

http://www.wins.uva.nl/research/folli/