LINGUIST List 29.748
Thu Feb 15 2018
FYI: E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, 2018: Call
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 12-Feb-2018
From: Ian Pratt-Hartmann <ipratt
cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: E. W. Beth
Dissertation Prize, 2018: Call
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message to a friend Since 2002, FoLLI (the Association for Logic,
Language, and Information,
http://www.folli.info)
has awarded the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the
fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best
dissertation which resulted in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2017.
Who
qualifies:
Nominations of candidates are admitted who were awarded a Ph.D.
degree in the areas of Logic, Language, or Information between January 1, 2017 and
December 31, 2017. Theses must be written in English; however, the Committee accepts
submissions of English translations of theses originally written in other languages,
and for which a PhD was awarded in the preceding two years (i.e. between January 1,
2015 and December 31, 2017). There is no restriction on the nationality of the
candidate or on the university where the Ph.D. was granted.
Prize:
The prize consists of:
- A certificate
- A donation of 2500 euros
provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation
- An invitation to submit the thesis (or a
revised version of it) to the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information
(Springer).
How to submit:
Only electronic submissions are
accepted. The following documents are required:
- The thesis in pdf format
(ps/doc/rtf not accepted).
- A ten-page abstract of the dissertation in pdf
format.
- A letter of nomination from the thesis supervisor (see below).
-
Two additional letters of support, including at least one from a referee not
affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree.
Self-nominations
are not admitted: each nomination must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor. The
letter of nomination should concisely describe the scope and significance of the
dissertation and state when the degree was officially awarded. Nominations should
contain the email contact details of the nominator.
All documents must be
submitted electronically (preferably as a zip file) to Ian Pratt-Hartmann
(ipratt
cs.man.ac.uk).
Hard copy submissions are not allowed. In case of any problems with the email
submission or a lack of notification within three working days, nominators should
write to Ian Pratt-Hartmann.
The prize will be awarded at the ESSLLI summer
school in Sofia.
Queries: Ian Pratt-Hartmann (ipratt
cs.man.ac.uk)
Important dates:
Deadline for Submissions: April 23, 2018.
Notification
of Decision: July 2, 2018.
ESSLLI summer school (Sofia): August 6--17, 2018.
Committee:
Emmanuel Chemla (ENS, CNRS)
Andrew Fish (University
of Brighton)
Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai)
Nina
Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark Copenhagen)
Wesley Holliday
(University of California, Berkeley)
Thomas Icard (Stanford University)
Andreas
Maletti (Leipzig University)
Angelo Montanari (University of Udine)
Sanjian
Li (University of Technology Sydney)
Larry Moss (Indiana University,
Bloomington)
Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Chair (University of Manchester)
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Linguistic Theories; Neurolinguistics; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics;
Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax
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