Congratulations: Bloomfield Award Finalist (notification letter)

[with Jason's permission]

Dear Chris,

It is my great pleasure to inform you that your book, Principles of argument structure (MIT Press, 2024), has been designated a Finalist for the Linguistic Society of America's 2026 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award. On behalf of the entire Bloomfield Book Award Committee, congratulations!

You will be recognized at the Awards Ceremony at the next LSA Annual Meeting in January. This the first year that finalists are selected and honored alongside the winner, a change to the award that was proposed by this committee and enthusiastically approved by the LSA Executive Committee to go into effect immediately.

I’m cc’ing Jay Keyser as the series editor to solicit the 50-word citation that will be read at the award ceremony. Jay, you can send or arrange to have sent the citation to me, and I’ll review and edit it for the EC; we’d like to have it before November 1. (I’m cc’ing also Philip Laughlin and Angela Schmidt, who are listed in our materials as nominators from the MIT Press.)

As you know, the Bloomfield Award is the highest honor for a single work that our field possess, and its recipients, and finalists, are those works that make the most significant contributions to our science, exhibiting exemplary scholarship, empirical import, and theoretical acumen. Your book’s being named a Finalist for this award is in recognition of its excellence.

On behalf of the LSA, congratulations on this signal recognition for your contribution to our field!

With best wishes,

Jason

Jason Merchant

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

Faculty Director, UChicagoGRAD

Lorna Puttkammer Straus Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics and the College

University of Chicago