It is with great pleasure that we announce the winner of the 2021 Vivien Law Prize for the best essay submitted on any topic within the history of linguistics by a student or scholars within five years of their PhD:
Floris Solleveld (KU Leuven) for his essay “Language and the Mapping of the World: Linguistics in Relation to Ethnology and Geography from Hervás to Boas”.
Floris receives 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 2022.
Congratulations, Floris!