Congratulations are due to Professors Craige Roberts and Judith Tonhauser (with David Beaver and Mandy Simons) whose paper, "Toward a taxonomy of projective content" (Language 89.1, 2013), has been selected to receive the Linguistic Society of America's Best Paper in Language Award. This award is given for the best paper published in the journal in any given year.  I include below the text of the award citation:

'Toward a taxonomy of projective content' unpacks current conceptions of presupposition and conventional implicature to refine our understanding of projective content generally. It establishes a series of diagnostics about projective contents that form part of a toolkit for cross-linguistic study. Based on a detailed and careful examination of English and of the understudied language Paraguayan Guarani, the authors propose a novel dossier of subclasses of projective content. The sophistication of the work on Guarani stands out, as does the toolkit that will enable similar research on other languages, allowing a much broader base of languages from which to understand the nature of projective content, and serving as a model for other cross-linguistic work in pragmatics.'

Terrific news!