Vivien Law prize winners 2020

It is with great pleasure that we announce that this year, given the very strong field, there have been two winners of the 2020 Vivien Law Prize for the best essay submitted on any topic within the history of linguistics by a student or scholar within 5 years of their PhD.

Eleonora Serra (University of Cambridge) for her essay “Language Codification and Non-literary Norms in Sixteenth-century Italy: Rules for Informal Writings”.

Viktoriia Krivoshchekova (NUI Maynooth) for her essay “Early Irish Grammarians and the Study of Speech Sound”.

They each receive a prize of £200, a copy of Vivien Law’s The History of Linguistics in Europe and a year’s membership of the Society.

Next year’s entries close on September 30th 2021.

Congratulations, Eleonora and Viktoriia!