At the annual 'Taalgala', organized by AVT (Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap) Anéla (Dutch Association for Applied Linguistics) and LOT (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics), Brigitte Pakendorfs dissertation on Contact in the Prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and Genetic Perspectives was awarded the AVT/Anéla Dissertation Prize 2008. Congratulations to Brigitte!