Resources

On this page we provide links to sites which are of particular interest to SLE members and linguists in general. It may concern conferences, summer schools, linguistic organizations and others. Please notify us of any activity you know of and that you think should be brought to the attention of the SLE community.

Newsletter 1
Travel grants for advanced students
Organizing the ICL21
Abralin and HiSoN
Crowdfunding for Endangered Languages
The Linguistic Bibliography 2018
Indigenous languages of Russia
Rethinking the 20th International Congress of Linguists


Newsletter 2
Travel grants 
CIPSH Chair: Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity 
WS ‘Sociolinguistics of Language Endangerment’ 
Linguistic Bibliography 
SHESL 
Brazilian indigenous languages 
The Evolution of Language 
The Centenary of Euskaltzaindia 
WS ‘Disrupting Digital Monolingualism’ 
Lexicography in (computer) science

The Societas Linguistica Europaea announces the establishment of three awards for outstanding publications: an annual award for the best paper appearing in Folia Linguistica or Folia Linguistica Historica and two book awards to be awarded in alternate years. Each year, then, two awards will be given: one paper award and one book award. The awards are as follows:

 

  • Anna Siewierska Award: for the best Folia or FoLH paper

Frequency: annually

Prize: €1,000

Next award date: 2021 This award does not require an application. All articles published in Folia and FoLH are eligible.

Award Committee: five members, including a chairperson (the member of the EC in charge of awards), the two journal editors (who would be thoroughly familiar with the articles in question) and two more members involved in the journals (e.g., the associate editors, the review editors, or members of the editorial boards). The chairperson will inform the EC about the two additional members who will serve on the committee.

The award concerns the publications of 2020 and will be announced at SLE 2021 (Athens)

 

  • André Martinet Award: for an outstanding research monograph by a senior scholar which makes a significant contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics.

Frequency: every two years (even years, alternating with the Eugenio Coseriu Award)

Prize: €1,000

Next application deadline: 28 February 2022. Applications or nominations by colleagues must be sent to sleATkuleuven.be, accompanied by an electronic copy of the book, a link to the URL of the publication and its ISBN, and a brief CV (no more than two pages) indicating university affiliation, current position, year of attainment of doctoral degree, main field(s) of research and previous publications. Upon request, hard copies should be provided.

Eligibility:

  1. Applicants must have been members of SLE for at least two years prior to application (i.e. at least 2020 and 2021). In the case of co-authored books, at least one author must be a member of SLE for at least two years prior to application.
  2. Books must be first published in 2018, 2019, 2020, or 2021.
  3. Collective edited volumes are excluded from consideration.
  4. Officers of the SLE committees are excluded from receiving awards

Criteria:

  • Novelty and originality
  • Depth and breadth of the study, both theoretically and empirically
  • Relevance for further research in the field
  • Clarity (arguments are clearly presented; text is comprehensible to a broad audience)

 

Selection Committee:

After advice from the Scientific Committee, the chairperson makes a proposal with four names to the Executive Committee, who approve or amend the selection. The members in question can be SLE officers or other SLE members invited by the EC/SC to do the selection job.

The five members are appointed for a term of two years, and serve on both book award committees.

 

  • Eugenio Coseriu Award: for an outstanding research monograph by a junior scholar which makes a significant contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics.

Frequency: every two years (odd years, alternating with the André Martinet Award)

Prize: €1,000

Next application deadline: 28 February 2021. Applications must be sent to sleATkuleuven.be, accompanied by an electronic copy of the book, a link to the URL of the publication and its ISBN, and a brief CV which must contain their university affiliation, main field(s) of research and previous publications. Upon request, hard copies should be provided.

Eligibility:

  1. Applicants can be postdocs, assistant professors, or associate professors, who should have completed their PhD no earlier than eight years before the year of application (for example 2013, for the 2021 application).
  2. Applicants must have been members of SLE for at least two years prior to application.
  3. Books must be first published in 2017, 2018, 2019, or 2020.
  4. Collective edited volumes are excluded from consideration.
  5. Officers of the SLE committees are excluded from receiving awards

 

Criteria:

  • Novelty (says something that is not part of the published literature)
  • Depth and breadth of the study, both theoretically and empirically
  • Relevance for further research in the field
  • Clarity (arguments are clearly presented; text is comprehensible to a broad audience)

 

Selection Committee (is the same for the two Awards):

After advice from the Scientific Committee, the chairperson makes a proposal with four names to the Executive Committee, who approves or amends the selection. The members in question can be SLE officers or SLE members invited by the EC/SC to do the selection job.

The five members are appointed for a term of two years, and serve on both book award committees.