Jens Nørgård-Sørensen Award



Jens Nørgård-Sørensen (1954–2015) was an outstanding linguist, one of the most prominent academic leaders in Slavic studies, a dedicated teacher, an active organizer of educational and research networks, and a friend of the Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. Jens has been an active part of the TMP conferences and a coorganizer of the TMP panel workshop for the graduate students (the GeNSLing sessions 2013– 2017).


Jens Nørgård-Sørensen at the “Typology of morphosyntactic parameters” conference (Moscow, October 2013)

Jens Nørgård-Sørensen Award winner Ekaterina Morgunova speaking at the conference "Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters 2018"




From 2016, the Jens Nørgård-Sørensen Award is given for the best presentation at the annual TMP conferences. We are happy to announce the 2018 winner, Ekaterina Morgunova (Lomonosov Moscow State University / Pushkin State Russian Language Institute), with the talk “Fragmenting in Russian and Georgian: an argument for PF-movement in the elliptical constructions”.

Our congratulations to the winner!