Best Postdoc
First place
- Alexandra Bosshard (University of Zurich): Processing perspectives on animal call compositionality
Second place
- Victor Bogren Svensson (Lund University; Academia Sinica): Voice Syncretism in Takituduh Bunun
Third place
- Tom Ennever (Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey): The diachrony of mistaken belief markers in Ngumpin-Yapa languages (Australia)
Best PhD
First place
- Elena Shvedova (HSE University of Moscow, Linguistic Convergence Laboratory): Lability drift in Modern Aramaic languages
Second place ex aequo
- Yuqi Yin (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI): Conceptualization of event packaging in Chinese Action-Motion Serial Verb Construction
- Elia Calligari (University of Pavia): The Northern Samoyedic predestinative: Quantitative and areal evidence of grammaticalization
Third place
- none
Best Poster
First place
- Lidia Federica Mazzitelli (University of Naples L’Orientale): The functional load of lenition in some Oceanic and Papuan languages of Island Melanesia
Second place
- Janek Vaab (University of Tartu): Variation in the realisation of a glottal stop in Leivu South Estonian
Third place
- Laurène Barbier (Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage CNRS, Université Lumière Lyon 2): “Upwards towards the forest and away from the river”: the Upper Negidal absolute orientation system and the role of rivers in the expression of direction
Award Winners at the SLE 2024 Conference (Helsinki)
Best Postdoc
I Carmelo Alessandro Basile (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): Bridging corpus and survey data: ethnicity and age impact on Singapore English modals
II Tara Struik (University of Mannheim): ‘Bashfulnesse is banished’: passive constructions as a gateway to state-incorporation in Old French and Middle English contact
III Bianca Maria De Paolis (together with Cecilia Andorno and Sandra Benazzo) (University of Turin, Italy and Lab. SFL – University of Paris 8 / CNRS): Exploring focus-contrast mapping mismatch in Romance languages: a comparative study of cleft structures and contrastive prosodic patterns in Italian and French
Best PhD
I Sandra Cronhamn and Anna Hjortdal (together with Franklin da Silva and Mikael Roll) (Lund University): The predictive function of Baniwa classifiers
II Pamela Goryczka and Irene Fally (University of Vienna): Closing in on overabundance – combining corpus-based and experimental methods
III Wesley Kuhron Jones (University of Oregon): Measuring the consistency of the “irrealis” domain using semantic maps
Best Poster
I Eline Daveloose (Ghent University): Variation in Cappadocian Greek relative clauses: pattern replication and diatopy
II Michał Piosik (Adam Mickiewicz Uniwersity): Quotative constructions with ba and så här in spoken Swedish
III Linlin Sun (Huazhong Agricultural University): Cross-linguistic differences in pragmatic inference: A comparison of Chinese and German anaphora resolution in discourse comprehension
Award Winners at the SLE 2023 Conference (Athens)
Best Postdoc
I Sandra Auderset (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology): Comprehensive database of sound changes reveals tree-like and wave-like processes in the Mixtec language family
II Tara Struik (University of Mannheim): ‘Bashfulnesse is banished’: passive constructions as a gateway to state-incorporation in Old French and Middle English contact
III Kristian Roncero (University of Sheffield): Overabundance at the intersection with diglossia and variation
Best PhD
I Víctor Royo Viñuales (Université de Liège – Université catholique de Louvain): Hypothetical manner constructions in French and Spanish: Prosody co-signals degree of independence
II Cristian Juárez (Max Planck Institute-EVA): Locative relations and valence extension: Multifunctional locative markers in Mocoví (Guaycuruan, Argentina)
III Shahani Singh (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Egophoricity and formality in Kathmandu Newār
Best Poster
I Jesse Holmes & Virve-Anneli Vihman (University of Tartu): The role of dependency length minimization in the emergence of Differential Object Marking cross-linguistically
II Lidia Federica Mazzitelli (Universität zu Köln): Varieties of passive in the Lavongai-Nalik languages of Northern New Ireland (Papua New Guinea)
III Wiebke Petersen (Bielefeld University): New insights on question formation in colloquial French