LINGUIST List 12.254

Tue Jan 30 2001

FYI: Naylor Prize Competition, 2001 NEH Grants

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

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  • Brian Joseph, First Naylor Prize Competition Results
  • Serventi, Jennifer, 2001 NEH Humanities Focus Grants

    Message 1: First Naylor Prize Competition Results

     Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:04:18 -0500 (EST)
    From: Brian Joseph <bjosephling.ohio-state.edu>
    Subject: First Naylor Prize Competition Results


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    FIRST NAYLOR PRIZE COMPETITION RESULTS ANNOUNCED The Kenneth E. Naylor Professorship in South Slavic Linguistics of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University is pleased to announce the results of the first competition for The Kenneth E. Naylor Young Scholar's Prize in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics. The Prize was created in 1999, in memory of Kenneth E. Naylor, Balkanist and South Slavic linguist par excellence, and awards $500 for the best unpublished paper by a young scholar on a topic in Balkan or South Slavic linguistics. The first winner is Dr. Grant Lundberg of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages of Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah), for his paper entitled "Possible Tonemic Oppositions in Haloze, Slovenia". The paper provides a close analysis of the prosodic systems of the dialects of Haloze, a small region on the eastern border of Slovenia's historical province of Styria, and, using the instrumental phonetic methodology of analyzing word-level pitch frequency spectrographically, tests the claim of previous scholarship that Haloze has preserved an unusually archaic system of tonal contrasts in which high and low tones are phonemically distinctive on short syllables. Dr. Lundberg argues that tonemic oppositions have been lost in Haloze but that, unlike other Styrian dialects, the rising contour of neighboring Kajkavian dialects has been generalized to all accented syllables. He thereby explains why some scholars have asserted the preservation of of tonemic distinctions in! Haloze, and also sheds some light on the processes involved in the loss of tonal distinctions in favor of dynamic stress. The prize-winning paper will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Balkanistica. In addition, a runner-up prize of $50 was awarded to Dr. Svetlana Godjevac, currently at the University of California, San Diego, for her submission, "Phonology of Serbo-Croatian Intonation", a chapter of her 2000 Ohio State University dissertation on "Intonation, Word Order and Focus Projection in Serbo-Croatian". The Prize Competition will continue, with the deadline for submissions in the next round being September 30, 2001. A separate announcement will be circulated soon but for information please contact the current Naylor Professor, Brian D. Joseph, c/o Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA 43210-1215 (joseph.1osu.edu).

    Message 2: 2001 NEH Humanities Focus Grants

     Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:28:48 -0500
    From: Serventi, Jennifer <JServentineh.gov>
    Subject: 2001 NEH Humanities Focus Grants


    2001 HUMANITIES FOCUS GRANTS EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

    The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and college faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen the teaching and learning of history, literature, foreign languages and cultures, and other areas of the humanities.

    Humanities Focus Grants, typically of one year in duration, enable educators to consider together significant humanities topics or to map institutional directions for teaching the humanities. Awarded through an expedited review cycle, these small grants allow educators to consider substantive questions and chart institutional directions in a timely way. Humanities Focus Grants are particularly appropriate and are encouraged for first-time applicants.

    Application deadline: April 15, 2001 Funding available: up to $25,000 For more information about this grant opportunities, or if you have ideas about developing a project, please write or call:

    Division of Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 318 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 Phone: 202/606-8380 FAX: 202/606-8394 e-mail: educationneh.gov TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282

    Guidelines and application forms are available from the NEH World Wide Web site: http://www.neh.gov/grants/onebook.html