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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><b>TO MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS</b><br>
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,<br>
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I have received a paper from Camiel Hamans regarding the possible affiliation of ISHL to CIPL (the
<i>Comité international permanent des linguistes</i>). I am appending this (short) document at the end of this message, rather than sending it as an attachment. It will be discussed at the ISHL Business Meeting in Oslo on Thursday, 8 August.<br>
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I look forward to seeing many of you there.<br>
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With all good wishes,<br>
<br>
John Charles Smith<br>
Secretary, ISHL<br>
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<div class="PlainText">John Charles Smith<br>
Official Fellow and Tutor, St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK<br>
Deputy Director, Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford<br>
tel. +44 1865 271700 (College) / 271748 (direct) / 271768 (fax)<br>
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<b>FROM CAMIEL HAMANS</b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">A NOTE ABOUT CIPL AND POSSIBLE ISHL MEMBERSHIP OF CIPL</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">1.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Introduction</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">CIPL, the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Comité International Permanent des Linguistes</i>, was founded in 1928, during the First International Congress of Linguists, in The Hague.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This Congress, organized by C. C. Uhlenbeck and Jos Schreijen, was a landmark in the history of the study of linguistics.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>At the Congress, Antoine Meillet proposed that an international congress should be held regularly, a proposal which was unanimously accepted.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">This was the beginning of CIPL.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A Committee was set up to ensure the organization of future congresses.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The last Congress (the nineteenth) has just taken place in Geneva (19<sup>th</sup> ICL, 21-27 July 2013).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">2.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Aims and Objectives</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Since 1949 CIPL has been an affiliated member of UNESCO’s International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (ICPHS), and as such is the only representative
of the linguistics community at international level.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">CIPL is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in the Netherlands, open to all whose aim is to further the knowledge and champion the cause of
linguistics throughout the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">CIPL seeks to encourage the development of linguistic science, and to achieve this by:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">•<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">organizing the International Congress of Linguists (ICL/CIL) every five years, in close cooperation with national committees or institutes devoted to linguistic research</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">In recent years, the linguistic congress has been attended by more than one thousand linguists, representing every continent.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The number of papers presented has grown accordingly (in Geneva, there were more than 700 papers and posters), as has the size of the Proceedings. The next ICL/CIL will take place in September 2018, in Cape Town, South
Africa.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">•<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">preparing and publishing the Linguistic Bibliography – Bibliographie Linguistique</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">CIPL has assumed this responsibility since 1948; this work is now published by Brill Publishers, Leiden.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">•<span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">participating in and sponsoring special linguistic projects, small conferences and seminars</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">Most recently, these have concerned Endangered Languages in South Africa, Australia, the UK and the USA, and the relationship between Linguistics and Neuroscience in Brazil.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">3.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Areas of Special Interest</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">In addition, CIPL is involved in the description of a number of languages in danger of extinction in the Asia–Pacific region, and, equally worthy of note,
in the publication of Stephen A. Wurm, Peter Mühlhäusler and Darrell T. Tryon (eds)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>(1996) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas.</i> Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">CIPL has a long-term commitment to work on language endangerment.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Its Fifteenth Congress, in Québec in 1992, was devoted to this theme.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A series of keynote papers was commissioned from leading experts in each area of the world, and the resulting pre-Congress volume (Robins & Uhlenbeck 1991) was the first worldwide survey of the field.
</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">4. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Membership</span></b></p>
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margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Until now, membership of CIPL has been open to national linguistic institutions and research centres in all countries where these exist.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, the CIPL statutes define it as an international organization.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In consequence, CIPL has recently changed its policy.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In addition to national linguistic organizations and institutions, it is now possible for international linguistic organizations which specialize in particular subfields of linguistics to apply for membership.
</span></p>
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margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">For this reason, CIPL has invited ICHL to become a member of CIPL and participate in its activities.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>CIPL is actively seeking to strengthen its base in the various (sub)disciplines of linguistics, in order to be able to represent and stimulate the field better.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Currently, historical linguistics is not well represented in CIPL, and ISHL membership would therefore be welcomed.
</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">5.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Organization</span></b></p>
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margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The board of CIPL consists of Prof. Ferenc Kiefer, President; Prof. David Bradley, Vice-President; and Prof. Piet van Sterkenburg, Secretary-General and Treasurer.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">CIPL consists of an Executive Committee of eight members and a General Assembly in which all participating national and international organizations are represented and discuss the policy of CIPL in general.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">6.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Website</span></b></p>
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margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Further information on all the above is available from the CIPL website:
</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">http://www.ciplnet.com/ .</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">7.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Subscription</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The cost of CIPL membership is currently US $300 per annum.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It is proposed that the sum of US $600 (representing two years’ membership) should be raised through the charges for each ICHL.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>This would add approximately US $4 to the conference fee.</span></p>
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margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">
<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">Camiel Hamans,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">Member of the General Assembly of CIPL</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">31 July 2013</span></p>
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