Best Postdoc
First place
- Carmelo Alessandro Basile (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): Bridging corpus and survey data: ethnicity and age impact on Singapore English modals
Second place
- Tara Struik (University of Mannheim): ‘Bashfulnesse is banished’: passive constructions as a gateway to state-incorporation in Old French and Middle English contact
Third place
- 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
First place
- Sandra Cronhamn and Anna Hjortdal (together with Franklin da Silva and Mikael Roll) (Lund University): The predictive function of Baniwa classifiers
Second place
- Pamela Goryczka and Irene Fally (University of Vienna): Closing in on overabundance – combining corpus-based and experimental methods
Third place
- Wesley Kuhron Jones (University of Oregon): Measuring the consistency of the “irrealis” domain using semantic maps
Best Poster
First place
- Eline Daveloose (Ghent University): Variation in Cappadocian Greek relative clauses: pattern replication and diatopy
Second place
- Michał Piosik (Adam Mickiewicz Uniwersity): Quotative constructions with ba and så här in spoken Swedish
- 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