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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><b>IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS</b><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Dear Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Several positions in the Society will fall vacant this year, and at the Business Meeting to be held during the Oslo ICHL a vote will be taken on proposals to fill these vacancies. I have now heard
from the ISHL Nominating Committee, who have made the following nominations:<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><b>i) FUTURE JOINT PRESIDENTS/CONFERENCE DIRECTORS (for 2017)</b><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (University of California, Los Angeles; Los Angeles CA, USA) &</font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Natalie Operstein (California State University, Fullerton; Fullerton CA, USA)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><i>Note 1: When any position in the Society is occupied jointly, the individuals concerned share a single vote.<o:p></o:p></i></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><i> </i></font></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><i>Note 2: It is proposed to hold the 2017 Conference at California State University, Fullerton.</i><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><b>ii) MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (to serve until 2019)</b><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Cynthia Allen<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><b>iii) MEMBER OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE (to serve until 2021)</b><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Éric Mathieu<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><b>iv) SECRETARY</b><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">The Nominating Committee proposes that John Charles Smith (University of Oxford, UK) should continue to serve as Secretary of the Society.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">With these nominations, the composition of the Society's Committees </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">will be as follows:</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><b>EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE</b><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><i>President and Director of the 2015 Conference:</i><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Michela Cennamo (Naples)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><i>Future Joint Conference Directors (2017)</i><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Los Angeles) &
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Natalie Operstein (Fullerton)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><i>Former Conference Director:</i><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Dag Trygve Truslew Haug (Oslo)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><i>Secretary:</i><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">John Charles Smith (Oxford)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><i>Other Members:</i><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Michele Loporcaro (Zürich), until 2015<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Alice C. Harris (Amherst), until 2017<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Cynthia Allen (Canberra), until 2019<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><b>NOMINATING COMMITTEE</b><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><i>Chair:</i><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Bridget Drinka (San Antonio), until 2015<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><i>Other Members:</i><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Heidi Quinn (Christchurch), until 2017<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Alex Bergs (Osnabrück), until 2019<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Éric Mathieu (Ottawa), until 2021.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">According to the Society's Constitution, individual members may also </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">make nominations. Should anyone wish to do so, could they
please let both the Secretary (johncharles.smith@stcatz.ox.ac.uk) and the current Chair of the Nominating Committee (dwew2@cam.ac.uk) know by email as soon as possible, and in any event before 11 July. Nominations will require the signatures of six proposers
and the written consent of the nominee. The nominee and all of the proposers should be members of the Society.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">I look forward to seeing you in Oslo.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">All good wishes,<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">John Charles Smith<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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