ISHL Business Meeting, Oslo =?windows-1252?Q?=97_?=ISHL Membership of CIPL

Fri Aug 2 09:53:05 UTC 2013

TO MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I have received a paper from Camiel Hamans regarding the possible affiliation of ISHL to CIPL (the Comité international permanent des linguistes).  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.

I look forward to seeing many of you there.

With all good wishes,

John Charles Smith
Secretary, ISHL
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John Charles Smith
Official Fellow and Tutor, St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK
Deputy Director, Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford
tel. +44 1865 271700 (College) / 271748 (direct) / 271768 (fax)
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FROM CAMIEL HAMANS

A NOTE ABOUT CIPL AND POSSIBLE ISHL MEMBERSHIP OF CIPL

1.  Introduction
CIPL, the Comité International Permanent des Linguistes, was founded in 1928, during the First International Congress of Linguists, in The Hague.  This Congress, organized by C. C. Uhlenbeck and Jos Schreijen, was a landmark in the history of the study of linguistics.  At the Congress, Antoine Meillet proposed that an international congress should be held regularly, a proposal which was unanimously accepted.
This was the beginning of CIPL.  A Committee was set up to ensure the organization of future congresses.  The last Congress (the nineteenth) has just taken place in Geneva (19th ICL, 21-27 July 2013).

2.  Aims and Objectives
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.
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.
CIPL seeks to encourage the development of linguistic science, and to achieve this by:
•           organizing the International Congress of Linguists (ICL/CIL) every five years, in close cooperation with national committees or institutes devoted to linguistic research.
In recent years, the linguistic congress has been attended by more than one thousand linguists, representing every continent.  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.
•           preparing and publishing the Linguistic Bibliography – Bibliographie Linguistique.
CIPL has assumed this responsibility since 1948; this work is now published by Brill Publishers, Leiden.
•           participating in and sponsoring special linguistic projects, small conferences and seminars.
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.

3.  Areas of Special Interest
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)  (1996) Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

CIPL has a long-term commitment to work on language endangerment.  Its Fifteenth Congress, in Québec in 1992, was devoted to this theme.  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.

4.  Membership

Until now, membership of CIPL has been open to national linguistic institutions and research centres in all countries where these exist.  However, the CIPL statutes define it as an international organization.  In consequence, CIPL has recently changed its policy.  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.

For this reason, CIPL has invited ICHL to become a member of CIPL and participate in its activities.  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.  Currently, historical linguistics is not well represented in CIPL, and ISHL membership would therefore be welcomed.

5.  Organization

The board of CIPL consists of Prof. Ferenc Kiefer, President; Prof. David Bradley, Vice-President; and Prof. Piet van Sterkenburg, Secretary-General and Treasurer.

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.

6.  Website

Further information on all the above is available from the CIPL website:

http://www.ciplnet.com/ .

7.  Subscription

The cost of CIPL membership is currently US $300 per annum.  It is proposed that the sum of US $600 (representing two years’ membership) should be raised through the charges for each ICHL.  This would add approximately US $4 to the conference fee.

Camiel Hamans,
Member of the General Assembly of CIPL
31 July 2013

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