[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this posting.]
How often does an undergraduate get a chance to make a thousand bucks
for a well written paper?
The answer: Annually! (See last year's results below.)
Now in its third year, competition for the University of Maryland
Undergraduate Essay Prize in Linguistics is officially underway
-- the formal announcement is below and on the Web at
<http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/prize2000/>. Submissions can be papers
written last year, or, since there's a December 15, 2000 deadline,
students can write something new for the competition -- yes, they can
even polish up and submit a term paper written for a course this fall.
Faculty, please encourage your students to submit papers!
Students, please submit those papers you're about to be working on!
And everyone, please feel free to forward this announcement to other
bulletin boards or mailing lists where there might be interest.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Resnik, Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
1401 Marie Mount Hall UMIACS phone: (301) 405-6760
University of Maryland Linguistics phone: (301) 405-8903
College Park, MD 20742 USA Fax : (301) 405-7104
http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik E-mail: resnik@umiacs.umd.edu
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The University of Maryland Undergraduate Essay Prize in Linguistics
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The University of Maryland Department of Linguistics is pleased to
announce the 2000/2001 University of Maryland Undergraduate Essay
Prize in Linguistics, an international competition now in its third
year.
The prize of $1000 will be awarded for the best undergraduate student
essay on a topic in linguistics, and the winning essay will be
published in the 2001 University of Maryland Working Papers in
Linguistics.
Submissions may be in the areas of computational linguistics, formal
semantics, language acquisition, language change, lexical semantics,
neurolinguistics, phonology, psycholinguistics, and formal syntax.
* Eligibility. Applicants must at the time of submission be enrolled at
least half time in an undergraduate program of study leading to a
bachelor's degree or equivalent, and must not already possess any
degree in linguistics. Essays should have been written within the
previous or current academic year, and must represent the original work
of the applicant. Previously published essays will not be considered
for the award. Current and former students of the University of
Maryland, College Park are ineligible.
* Deadline. Applicants must submit three (3) copies of the essay to the
address listed below, to be received no later than December 15, 2000.
Late submissions will not be considered.
* Length and format. Essays must be submitted in English, typed or
word-processed in no smaller than 10-point font, single-sided,
double-spaced, and on white paper, with at least 1-inch margins on all
sides. Applicants should use single-spaced endnotes rather than
footnotes, and follow style guidelines of either the Modern Language
Association (MLA) or the American Psychological Association (APA).
Essays must be no longer than twenty pages, excluding bibliography,
including at most two pages of endnotes. Essays not conforming to these
instructions will not be considered.
The applicant's name must not be included on the essay, since reviewing
is anonymous. Instead, include a cover sheet listing the title of the
essay, applicant's name, address, telephone number, e-mail address (if
available), school and program attending, year in the program, and the
topic area or areas of the essay (taken from the list above).
* Judging. All essays will be judged anonymously by the Faculty in
Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
* Award. The Essay Prize of $1000 will be awarded in February 2001, and
the winning essay included in the 2001 Maryland Working Papers in
Linguistics. The Department reserves the right not to award the prize
in a given year and may change the terms of the award for future
competitions.
Submissions should be sent to:
Undergraduate Essay Prize
Department of Linguistics
1401 Marie Mount Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7505 USA
Inquiries should be directed to the above address, or to the Undergraduate
Essay Prize Coordinator: Philip Resnik, resnik@benjamin.umd.edu,
(301) 405-8903.
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Last year's results
Winner: Jason Kandybowicz, Rutgers
The reiterated numeral construction
Honorable Mention: Cliff Crawford, Cornell
A condition on wh-extraction and what it reveals about the syntactic
structure of Tagalog
Honorable Mention: Janet Eisenband, UPenn
The use of gender information in pronoun resolution
Honorable Mention: Rebecca Hanson, Calgary
Fusion and the acquisition of S-nasal clusters
Honorable Mention: Peter J. Vasquez, UCLA
Linguistic ability in the right hemisphere: evidence from
language development in two left hemispherectomies
Honorable Mention: Lynsey Kay Wolter, Swarthmore
The case of predicates: questions of control and binding
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