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The teacher Maria Bardají renowned for the Prize Greenberg
News | 11-11-2024
The Association for Linguistic Typology has awarded the doctoral thesis of the professor of the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics with an honorable mention
The lecturer in the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics of the Faculty of Philology and Communication, Maria Bardají, has received the honourable mention of the Joseph Greenberg Prize awarded by the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT). Bardají has been recognised by the doctoral thesis Nominalization in Totoli and in other western Austronesian languages, a research that explores the processes of nominalization and the relationship with symmetrical voice constructions to Totoli (language spoken to Sulawesi (Sulawesi), Indonesia) and other Western languages of the Austronesian family.
The jury has excelled very positively the interaction among the observations and work of area with the typological theoretic reasoning, and considers that it represents an advance at the methodological field of the discipline.
The ALT, an association that treats the scientific survey of the typology
The Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) founded the 1994 to advance the area of the typology and establish a platform of cooperation and dialogue at the international community of typologists. Since the 1998 awards the ALT prize Junior, now prize Joseph Greenberg, as a recognition at the doctoral researchers. The contest recognises biennially the best publication of doctoral enquiry at the field of the typology.