Return-Path: Received: from n3.grp.scd.yahoo.com (n3.grp.scd.yahoo.com [66.218.66.86]) by mx1.verat.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g4E8aHKx018640 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 10:36:28 +0200 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-1148209-1492-1021365282-epussp=verat.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.95] by n3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 May 2002 08:36:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 92728 invoked from network); 14 May 2002 08:34:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 May 2002 08:34:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n13.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.68) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 May 2002 08:34:41 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: bieberf@ceu.hu Received: from [66.218.67.138] by n13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 May 2002 08:34:40 -0000 X-eGroups-Approved-By: fbieber via web; 14 May 2002 08:34:38 -0000 X-Sender: bieberf@ceu.hu X-Apparently-To: balkans@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 14 May 2002 08:27:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 17438 invoked from network); 14 May 2002 08:27:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 May 2002 08:27:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.tehnicom.net) (62.193.128.14) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 May 2002 08:27:19 -0000 Received: from spamkill by mail.tehnicom.net with spam-checked (Exim 4.04) id 177XeG-0005Bv-00 for balkans@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 14 May 2002 10:27:10 +0200 Received: from ch47.beograd-3.tehnicom.net ([62.193.130.113]:1212 helo=oemcomputer.ceu.hu) by mail.tehnicom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.04) id 177XeC-0005BL-00 for balkans@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 14 May 2002 10:27:05 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020514093956.03b15380@pop3.ceu.hu> X-Sender: bieberf@pop3.ceu.hu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 To: balkans@yahoogroups.com X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *177XeC-0005BL-00*KO9THRoc0Kc* X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.3 required=5.0 tests=SOCIAL_SEC_NUMBER version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: ** From: Florian Bieber X-Yahoo-Profile: fbieber MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list balkans@yahoogroups.com; contact balkans-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list balkans@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 09:41:04 +0200 Subject: [balkans] CfA: Naylor Prize 2001 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_4687125==_.ALT" --=====================_4687125==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ANNOUNCING -- The 2002 Competition for: The Kenneth E. Naylor Young Scholar's Prize in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics In memory of Kenneth E. Naylor, Balkanist and South Slavic linguist par excellence, the Naylor Professorship in South Slavic Linguistics in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University established in 1999 a prize of $500 for the best unpublished paper by a young scholar on a topic in Balkan or South Slavic linguistics. The third such competition is now officially open. We thus solicit papers written in English by young scholars - defined for this competition as an advanced graduate student (who is beyond his/her first year of study) or someone who is no more than three years beyond the awarding of the Ph.D. degree at the time of submission -- that treats some topic either in Balkan linguistics, taking a comparative approach and treating at least two languages of Southeastern Europe, or in any of the South Slavic languages on their own or in relation to the other languages of the Balkans. In order to be eligible, the submitted paper must be unpublished, and not under consideration for publication at the time of submission; however, papers that have appeared in an issue of a "Working Papers" series are still eligible for consideration in the competition. Those that have appeared in conference proceedings volumes of any sort are not eligible, unless they are substantially revised and/or expanded. Written versions of papers that have been presented at a conference are eligible, as are papers based on chapters of dissertations or M.A. theses (but not raw dissertation chapters or M.A. theses themselves). In all cases, however, the Committee will look for self-contained scholarly articles of publishable quality that treat some relevant topic (as spelled out above) in an interesting and insightful way, following any appropriate approach (historical, synchronic, sociolinguistic, etc.) and any theoretical framework. Interested scholars should submit four copies of the paper along with an abstract (no longer than 250 words) and a cover sheet with the title of the paper, the author's name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, phone and fax numbers, date of entrance into an appropriate graduate program or of awarding of Ph.D. (as the case may be), and US social security number, if the author has one (having one, though, is not a requirement), to: Naylor Prize Competition Dept. of Slavic & East European Languages & Literatures 232 Cunz Hall The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio USA 43210-1215. The deadline for receipt of the papers in the Department for this, the third, competition is SEPTEMBER 30, 2002. The Screening Committee, consisting of the Naylor Professor and former speakers in the annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture series, expects to make the announcement of the winner by January 30, 2003. The winning paper will be published (after any necessary revisions) in an issue of the journal Balkanistica. The Committee reserves the right not to award the Prize in a given year. Please address any inquiries to the Naylor Professor, Brian D. Joseph, at the above address or via e-mail at joseph.1@osu.edu. ---------- Results of 2001 Competition for the Kenneth E. Naylor Young Scholar's Prize in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics: First Place Prize of $500 awarded to: Daniela Trenkic (Podtdoctoral Researcher, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (Ph.D., Cambridge, 2000)): "Definiteness as a Grammatical Category and as Category of Meaning in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian" Abstract: In this examination of the nature of nominal definiteness in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, two aspects of definiteness are distinguished and defined: definiteness as a grammatical category and definiteness as a category of meaning. The latter is taken as a universal category relating to the identifiability of nominal referents in communication (cf. Hawkins 1991), whereas the former is language-specific, relating to semantic/pragmatic definiteness as the grammaticalisation of the category of meaning (cf. Lyons 1999). Traditional views that relate word-order, adjectival 'definite aspect', and demonstratives to grammatical definiteness are considered here and found lacking. Rather, it is proposed that definiteness is not grammaticalised in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, and that the definiteness of nominal referents is inferred through general principles of goal-oriented behaviour. Runner-up Prize of $50 awarded to: Olga Arnaudova (Ph.D. candidate, University of Ottawa): "Why do clitics (sometimes) co-occur with DPs: The Case of Bulgarian" Abstract: In this study of the cooccurrence of clitic pronouns in Bulgarian with full nominal phrases, it is argued that the presence of the resumptive clitic has a grammatical function, namely to 'externalize' an argument with implications for the focus structure of the sentence. It is claimed that clitics in Bulgarian are argument- variables, base-generated within the Verb Phrase in argument positions which later move to head position of Tense to license discourse operators related to inferentiality. Those discourse operators can optionally host a Determiner Phrase in their Specifier position and realize a higher predication. From this perspective, the motivation behind the formation of the clitic cluster becomes clear: in syntax, clitics move to license discourse-related operators. This analysis explains why clitics are never found in the domain of focus, as well as the thematic 'redundancy' in Clitic Left-Dislocation constructions. It is also shown that in constructions such as (focus) topicalization, there is no clitic since the moved constituent leaves a gap and, independently the needs of the predication do not require an argument-variable. These two young South Slavic scholars join Dr. Grant Lundberg of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages of Brigham Young University and Dr. Svetlana Godjevac, of the University of California, San Diego, the First Prize and Runner-up respectively in the 2000 Naylor Prize competition. For more information on the competition and the winners, please contact: Brian D. Joseph, Naylor Professor Department of Slavic & East European Languages & Literatures The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio USA 43210-1215 joseph.1@osu.edu --=====================_4687125==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ANNOUNCING -- The 2002 Competition for:
 
 The Kenneth E. Naylor Young Scholar's Prize in South Slavic
 and Balkan Linguistics
 
 
 In memory of Kenneth E. Naylor, Balkanist and South Slavic
 linguist par excellence, the Naylor Professorship in South Slavic
 Linguistics in the Department of Slavic and East European
 Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University
 established in 1999 a prize of $500 for the best unpublished paper
 by a young scholar on a topic in Balkan or South Slavic linguistics.
 The third such competition is now officially open.
 
 We thus solicit papers written in English by young scholars -
 defined for this competition as an advanced graduate student (who
 is beyond his/her first year of study) or someone who is no more
 than three years beyond the awarding of the Ph.D. degree at the
 time of submission -- that treats some topic either in Balkan
 linguistics, taking a comparative approach and treating at least two
 languages of Southeastern Europe, or in any of the South Slavic
 languages on their own or in relation to the other languages of the
 Balkans.
 
 In order to be eligible, the submitted paper must be unpublished,
 and not under consideration for publication at the time of
 submission; however, papers that have appeared in an issue of a
 "Working Papers" series are still eligible for consideration in the
 competition. Those that have appeared in conference proceedings
 volumes of any sort are not eligible, unless they are substantially
 revised and/or expanded. Written versions of papers that have
 been presented at a conference are eligible, as are papers based on
 chapters of dissertations or M.A. theses (but not raw dissertation
 chapters or M.A. theses themselves). In all cases, however, the
 Committee will look for self-contained scholarly articles of
 publishable quality that treat some relevant topic (as spelled out
 above) in an interesting and insightful way, following any
 appropriate approach (historical, synchronic, sociolinguistic, etc.)
 and any theoretical framework.
 
 Interested scholars should submit four copies of the paper along
 with an abstract (no longer than 250 words) and a cover sheet with
 the title of the paper, the author's name, affiliation, mailing
 address, e-mail address, phone and fax numbers, date of entrance
 into an appropriate graduate program or of awarding of Ph.D. (as
 the case may be), and US social security number, if the author has
 one (having one, though, is not a requirement), to:
 
 Naylor Prize Competition
 Dept. of Slavic & East European Languages & Literatures
 232 Cunz Hall
 The Ohio State University
 Columbus, Ohio USA 43210-1215.
 
 The deadline for receipt of the papers in the Department for this,
 the third, competition is SEPTEMBER 30, 2002. The Screening
 Committee, consisting of the Naylor Professor and former speakers
 in the annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture series, expects
 to make the announcement of the winner by January 30, 2003. The
 winning paper will be published (after any necessary revisions) in
 an issue of the journal Balkanistica. The Committee reserves the
 right not to award the Prize in a given year.
 
 Please address any inquiries to the Naylor Professor, Brian D.
 Joseph, at the above address or via e-mail at joseph.1@osu.edu.

 Results of 2001 Competition for the Kenneth E. Naylor Young Scholar's
Prize in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics:

 First Place Prize of $500 awarded to:

 Daniela Trenkic (Podtdoctoral Researcher, Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh  (Ph.D., Cambridge, 2000)):  "Definiteness as a Grammatical Category and as

 Category of Meaning in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian"

 Abstract:  In this examination of the nature of nominal definiteness
 in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, two aspects of definiteness are
 distinguished and defined:  definiteness as a grammatical category
 and definiteness as a category of meaning.  The latter is taken as a
 universal category relating to the identifiability of nominal referents
 in communication (cf. Hawkins 1991), whereas the former is
 language-specific, relating to semantic/pragmatic definiteness as the
 grammaticalisation of the category of meaning (cf. Lyons 1999).
 Traditional views that relate word-order, adjectival 'definite aspect',
 and demonstratives to grammatical definiteness are considered here
 and found lacking.  Rather, it is proposed  that definiteness is not
 grammaticalised in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, and that the
 definiteness of nominal referents is inferred through general
 principles of goal-oriented behaviour.


 Runner-up Prize of $50 awarded to:
 Olga Arnaudova (Ph.D. candidate, University of Ottawa):  "Why do
 clitics (sometimes) co-occur with DPs:  The Case of Bulgarian"

 Abstract:  In this study of the cooccurrence of clitic pronouns in
 Bulgarian with full nominal phrases, it is argued that the presence of
 the resumptive clitic has a grammatical function, namely to
 'externalize' an argument with implications for the focus structure of
 the sentence.  It is claimed that clitics in Bulgarian are argument-
 variables, base-generated within the Verb Phrase in argument
 positions which later move to head position of Tense to license
 discourse operators related to inferentiality.  Those discourse
 operators can optionally host a Determiner Phrase in their Specifier
 position and realize a higher predication.  From this perspective, the
 motivation behind the formation of the clitic cluster becomes clear:
 in syntax, clitics move to license discourse-related operators.  This
 analysis explains why clitics are never found in the domain of focus,
 as well as the thematic 'redundancy' in Clitic Left-Dislocation
 constructions.  It is also shown that in constructions such as (focus)
 topicalization, there is no clitic since the moved constituent leaves a
 gap and, independently the needs of the predication do not require an
 argument-variable.


 These two young South Slavic scholars join Dr. Grant Lundberg of
 the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages of Brigham
 Young University and Dr. Svetlana Godjevac, of the University of
 California, San Diego, the First Prize and Runner-up respectively in
 the 2000 Naylor Prize competition.

  For more information on the competition and the winners, please
 contact:

 Brian D. Joseph, Naylor Professor
 Department of Slavic & East European Languages & Literatures
 The Ohio State University
 Columbus, Ohio  USA  43210-1215
 joseph.1@osu.edu

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