[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
This is my first attempt to display the connection between the various concepts in my recent MIT Press monograph. Let me know what you think!
%20(Monograph).jpg)
In this post, I summarize my recent MIT Press monograph for non-linguists.
Collins, Chris. 2024. Principles of Argument Structures: A Merge-Based Approach. MIT Press, Cambridge.
The sale date is fast approaching: September 17, 2024.
Readers with a US mailing address can use the below code for discounts on orders placed through PenguinRandomHouse.com. You can share this discount code with friends, family, colleagues, and through social media, and email outreach. Please make sure to include a link to our discount code information and a link to your book on PRH.com.
Principles of Argument Structure on Penguin Random House
a.
PUBDAY30: Share this code for 30% off on publication day (this is our biggest available discount!).
b.
READMIT20: This code offers 20% off your book at any time after publication.
“This carefully argued inquiry develops an original and persuasive Merge-based approach to fundamental questions about the syntactic foundations of semantic interpretation. A very valuable contribution to central issues in the study of language.”
Noam Chomsky
“Collins' stimulating new monograph delves into and sheds important new analytical light on some of the central questions in syntactic theory and will be essential reading on implicit arguments and the passive voice.”
Jason Merchant,
Vice Provost and Lorna Puttkammer Straus Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago
“A beautiful trip into the intricacies of the organization of the nominal arguments of verbs, sometimes silent, sometimes overt, developed in such a sharp way, that makes one feel that deep properties have indeed been uncovered. Collins' book illustrates the scientific method at its best, leaving a feeling of freshness and clarity.”
Adriana Belletti,
University of Siena, Italy
Continuing with the tradition I started last summer, I post my summer reading for 2023. These books cover roughly the time period between June 1, 2023, and August 31, 2023. If anybody wants to discuss these books with me, let me know.
