FoLLI would like to congratulate the prize winners for their excellent thesis, and to thank all applicants who responded to the call for submissions.

2009 Prize jointly awarded to

Dr. Emmanuel Chemla (Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris) for his Ph.D. thesis ``Presuppositions and Scalar Implicatures: Formal and Experimental Studies'', and to

Dr. Lukasz Kaiser (Aachen University) for his Ph.D. thesis ``Logic and Games on Automatic Structures''.

2008 Prize jointly awarded to

Dr. Tomas Brazdil (Masaryk University) for his Ph.D. thesis ``Verification of Probabilistic Recursive Sequential Programs'', and to

Dr. Marco Kuhlmann (Saarland University) for his Ph.D. thesis ``Dependency Structures and Lexicalized Grammars''.

2007 Prize awarded to

Dr. Gabriele Puppis (University of Udine) for his Ph.D. thesis ``Automata for Branching and Layered Structures''

2006 Prize jointly awarded to

Dr. Leszek Kolodziejczyk (Warsaw University) for his Ph.D. thesis ``Truth Definitions and higher-Order Logics in Finite Models'', and to

Dr. Chung-chieh (Ken) Shan (Harvard University) for his Ph.D. thesis ``Linguistic Side Effects''.

2005 Prize awarded to

Dr. Ash Asudeh (University of Canterbury) for his Ph.D. thesis ``Resumption as Resource Management''.

2004 Prize awarded to

Dr. John T. Hale (Michigan State University) for his Ph.D. thesis ``Grammar, Uncertainty and Sentence Processing''.

2003 Prize awarded to

Dr. Jason Baldridge (University of Edinburgh) for his Ph.D. thesis ``Lexically Specified Derivational Control in Combinatory Categorial Grammar''.

2002 Prize awarded to

Dr. Maria Aloni, University of Amsterdam, for his Ph.D. thesis ``Quantification under conceptual covers''.

2001 Prize awarded to

Dr. Gerald Penn, University of Toronto, for the Ph.D. ``The Algebraic Structure of Attributed Type Signatures''.

2000 Prize jointly awarded to

Dr. Jelle Gerbrandy, University of Amsterdam, for his 1999 Ph.D. thesis ``Bisimulations on Planet Kripke'' , and to

Dr. Khalil Sima'an University of Amsterdam / University of Utrecht, for his 1999 Ph.D. thesis ``Learning Efficient Disambiguation''.

1999 Prize jointly awarded to

Dr. Peter Grünwald for her 1998 ILLC, University of Amsterdam Ph.D. thesis ``The Minimum Description Length Principle and Reasoning under Uncertainty'', and to

Dr. Matthew Stone for his 1998 University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. thesis ``Modality in Dialogue: Planning, Pragmatics and Computation''.

1998 Prize jointly awarded to

Dr. Nir Friedman for his 1997 Stanford University Ph.D. thesis ``Modeling Beliefs in Dynamic Systems'', and to

Dr. Lisa Matthewson for her 1996 University of British Columbia Ph.D. thesis ``Determiner Systems and Quantificational Strategies: Evidence from Salish''.