Sharjah Award for Linguistic Studies extends application deadline
$100,000 prize across two key categories
The award, with a total value of $100,000, aims to encourage academic research in the fields of linguistics and lexicography. It is divided equally between two main categories: linguistic studies and lexical studies. First-place winners in each category receive $30,000, while second-place winners are awarded $20,000.
Focus of the 2025 award
This edition of the award highlights two specialised areas:
1. Textual linguistic studies, which focuses on analysing texts at phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and lexical levels using modern linguistic methods.
2. Dictionaries of Arabic language sciences terminology, which documents terminology in fields such as grammar, morphology, rhetoric, prosody, linguistics, phonetics, and philology.
Eligibility criteria for applicants
To qualify, submissions must be published books (not journal articles) with an ISBN, issued after 1 January 2017, and must not have received a similar award previously. Applicants must not have won this award in the past five years, and cannot submit more than one work or apply in multiple categories.
Apply online
Applications can be submitted electronically via the award's official website:
https://shj-arabic-award.shj.ae/
A platform for global Arabic scholarship
This extension offers an added opportunity for specialists in Arabic language sciences to participate in a respected platform that celebrates scholarly efforts, supporting the academic elevation and global presence of the Arabic language.
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