The Sixth RH Robins Prize of the Philological Society
PhilSoc intends to offer a sixth R. H. Robins student Prize for an article submission on a linguistic topic that falls within the area of the Society’s interests as defined by present and past publications in the Transactions of the Philological Society.
The Prize will be awarded in open competition. The competition is open to any individual who is both:
(i) a registered doctoral candidate (at the time of submission); s/he should submit a letter from his/her supervisor, or from a person of similar standing, attesting to his/her status and that the submission is his/her own work); and,
(ii) a Member or a Student Associate Member of the Society (membership can be applied for at the time of submission).
The article submission could — but need not — be based on some part of the projected doctoral dissertation. The article should not have been published before (except possibly in a departmental working paper or the like), nor should it have been submitted for publication elsewhere.
The winner will receive a cash prize of £500; the runner-up will receive a cash prize of £250. Additionally, the prize-winning and runner-up submissions — revised where appropriate in line with referees’ comments — will be accepted for publication in the Society’s journal, the Transactions of the Philological Society (TPhS). In making a submission, an author undertakes to give the Transactions first refusal to publish the article. If no submission is judged suitable for publication, no prize will not be awarded. If non-prize-winning submissions are judged to be suitable for publication, then these, too, may be accepted for publication.
The prize will be awarded by PhilSoc Council on the recommendation of a prize committee formed from members of Council with the President in the Chair. In awarding the prize the Council will take into consideration the originality and the expression of the submission and the theoretical and/or empirical contribution it makes to the discipline.
The closing date for submissions is 1 November 2010. Submissions should be written in English. They should not exceed — but need not be as long as — 10,000 words in length including tables, figures, notes, appendices, references, etc. Submissions should be made via the TPhS electronic editorial office. Submissions should be accompanied by a covering letter indicating clearly to the TPhS editors that the submission is for the Prize rather than a regular submission to the journal. Submissions should also be accompanied by the letter mentioned in (i) above. The article should follow the style sheet of the Transactions. The style sheet can be downloaded by clicking on the link on the left. The winner and runner-up will be announced at the Society’s Annual General Meeting in May 2011, and the prize will be awarded when the final version of the article is published in Transactions. It is expected that the prize-winning and runner-up article will appear in Transactions Vol. 109 or 110. The Council’s judgement is final.
| 2000 | Virve-Anneli Vihman (Edinburgh) | Middle voice in Estonian (100.1: 131--160) |
| 2004 | Sarah Turner (University College, Oxford) | Post-verbal subjects in Early East Slavonic (TPhS 104.1: 85--117) |
| 2006 | Louise Mycock (Manchester) | Constituent question formation and focus: A new typological perspective (TPhS 105.2: 192--251) |
| 2008 | Petros Karatsareas (Cambridge) | The loss of grammatical gender in Cappadocian Greek (TPhS 107.2: 196--230) |