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LACUS Presidents' Prizes

The Presidents' Prize, which includes a cash award of US$500, is awarded to the most outstanding paper presented at a LACUS conference by a junior scholar. For this purpose, most outstanding paper is defined as the paper judged as the one making the greatest contribution to knowledge, and junior scholar is defined as one who has received a doctor's degree within the past five years and who has not yet been awarded a tenured position, or one who has not yet received a doctor’s degree. The judging is done by the Presidents Committee, consisting of the current President of LACUS and all former presidents in attendance at the meeting.

A runner-up prize, with a cash award of US$100, is given to the next-best paper (same criteria) by a junior scholar (same definition).


Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States / Association de Linguistique du Canada et des États-Unis