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Comite International Permanent des Linguistes Permanent International Committee of Linguists
In January and in June 2006 the President and Secretary-General met in Budapest. They discussed the following: Bibliographie Linguistique; the 18th International Congress of Linguists in Seoul; a Chair of Endangered Languages; the Annual Report; a Summer School on Endangered Languages; the Nominating Committee. A great deal of attention was paid to the question of whether a limited CIPL staff should implement major projects itself or whether emphasis should be placed on important linguistic developments and on involvement in the creation of conditions. In contrast to what was published in our 2005 report, the two bibliographers of the Linguistic Bibliography stayed at the Dutch National Library in The Hague until the end of 2006. More about this and the appearance of the BL2002 under item 4: Linguistic Bibliography. 1. Organization Executive Committee in 2006: P r e s i d e n t Professor F. Kiefer, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Benczur utca 33, H-1068 Budapest, Hungary. Fax: + 36 1 32 292 97, e-mail: kiefer@nytud.hu F i r s t V i c e - P r e s i d e n t Professor P. Ramat, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Linguistica, Strada Nuova 65, I-27100 Pavia, Italy. Fax: + 39 382 504487, e-mail: paoram@unipv.it S e c o n d V i c e - P r e s i d e n t Professor A. Bamgbose, Linguistic Association of Nigeria, University of Ibadan, Dept. of Linguistics and African Languages, Ibadan, Nigeria. Fax: + 234 2 8104017, e-mail: bamgbose@skannet.com S e c r e t a r y - G e n e r a l Professor P.G.J. van Sterkenburg, P.O. Box 3023, 2301 DA Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: pvansterkenburg@planet.nl M e m b e r s Professor M.S. Anwar, 40 SameerAbdul Rauf St, Extension of Makram Ebeid, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. Fax: + 971 36 21406, e-mail: Manwar@uaeu.ac.ae Professor David Bradley, La Trobe University, Department of Linguistics, VIC 3086, Australia. Fax: + 61 3 9479 1520, e-mail: d.bradley@latrobe.edu.au Professor Eva Hajicova, Head of the Center for Computational Linguistics, Charles University, Malostranske nam. 25, 118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic. Fax + 420 2 2191 4309, e-mail: hajicova@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Professor Shen Jiaxuan, Director Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 5 Jianguomennei Dajie, Beijing 100732, China. Fax: + 86 10 6513 7403 Professor Chr. Lehmann, Philosophische Fakultät, Universität, Postfach 900221, 99105 Erfurt, Germany. Fax: + 49 361 737 1909, e-mail: christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de Professor F.J. Newmeyer, Linguistic Society of America, 1068 Seymour St. Vancouver, BC V6B 1X9, Canada. E-mail: fjn@u.washington.edu Professor J. Rischel, 57 Stenhøjgaardsvej, DK-3460 Birkerød, Denmark. E-mail: rischel@privat.tele.dk Professor T. Shimomiya, Gakushuin Univ. Dept. of German, Mejiro 1-5-1, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan 171. Fax: + 81 429 261 546 General Assembly in 2006: A l b a n i a A u s t r a l i a A u s t r i a B e l a r u s B e l g i u m C a n a d a C h i n a C u b a C z e c h r e p u b l i c D e n m a r k E n g l a n d F i n l a n d F r a n c e G a b o n G e r m a n y H u n g a r y I n d o n e s i a I r e l a n d I s r a e l I t a l y J a p a n K o r e a N e t h e r l a n d s N i g e r i a N o r w a y P o l a n d R o m a n i a S p a i n S w i t z e r l a n d T a I w a n T u r k e y U n i t e d A r a b E m i r a t e s U n i t e d S t a t e s o f A m e r i c a S . I . D . G . (Société Internationale de dialectologie et géolinguistique) S . L . E . (Societas Linguistica Europaea) 2. Members Currently CIPL has 35 members. Last year four countries that had failed to pay their contribution for six or more years were removed from the list. At the moment there are once again a few members who have not paid their annual fee for five or more years. CIPL really needs these contributions in order to exist. We sincerely hope that the defaulting members will pay the invoice to be sent with the annual report. Fortunately we were able to add a new member: the Linguistic Society of Taiwan. We wish to emphasise that CIPL is a linguistic association. All countries as well as international organisations of linguists whose main aim is to promote linguistic science and to further cooperation between linguists may become members (article 1 of CIPL Statutes). Intervention/co-operation on the part of CIPL members will always be appreciated. At present we are carrying out investigations, with the board of Parole, to see whether the European organisation can also become a member of CIPL. Chair of Endangered Languages
The 2005 annual report stated that it was impossible to install a Chair of Endangered Languages at the University of Leiden. In 2006 discussions were held with the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen and with the University of Leiden (to be exact: with the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics - LUCL - and with the new Dean of the Faculty of Letters. The university of Nijmegen is clearly interested, but requires a large dowry from CIPL, which is only affordable if CIPSH were to participate. Unfortunately there too they speak the language of severe cutbacks. Discussions held with the new Dean in Leiden went so well that in all probability a procedure will be initiated in 2007 according to the rules obtaining at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Leiden. Leiden asks no more than payment of the titular's expenses up to a maximum of € 2,500, will call the chair the CIPL Chair for Endangered Languages and offers to an officer of the CIPL a seat on the chair's board of trustees. Moreover the chair will be evaluated on an annual basis. Every five years the question of extension or annulment of the obligation will be examined.
Ideas regarding a Summer School on Endangered Languages were further elaborated in 2006. In the summer of 2007 the LUCL will be organising a number of summer schools, including a CIPL Summer School (CIPL is to sponsor) on Language Endangerment: Documentation, typology and applications. Members of EC and GA have been invited to teach and either President or Secretary-General will give the opening address. 4. Linguistic bibliography Bibliographers in service at the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie in Leiden (INL) as of 1st January 2007 In contrast to what was reported in the 2005 annual report, the BL-ers could not transfer to INL by 1st January 2006, only being able to do so as from 1st January 2007. This all had to do with the greatest possible care that had to be exercised while a legal expert from the Dutch National Library and one from the INL looked at the legal position of the BL-ers. Nonetheless the Executive Committee reached an agreement with the board of the INL regarding the organisational embedding and with Brill regarding the housing of the editorial staff. The editors will continue to produce the bibliography in the Dutch National Library under the same conditions as before. This guarantees the future continuation of CIPL's bibliography. CIPL's Secretary-General will act as mentor to the editors. Publication BL and BL-online In November 2006, the Linguistic Bibliography for the year 2002 was published with a total of 19,107 references. The annual increase of the BLonline database amounted to 15,423 records, resulting in a total of 214,975 by 31st December. Considering the ongoing expansion of the field and the limited resources of the bibliography, in consultation with the Secretary-General the editors decided to put clear emphasis on non-Indo-European languages and lesser known Indo-European languages in order to create a special position for BL among the international linguistic bibliographies. During the year under review the editors have laid the basis for a keyword index which will eventually be used to improve searching in BL and thereby to enhance the quality of the bibliography. Further studies will be carried out in 2007 to determine the extent to which the databank can be rendered more dynamic and whether collaboration with other powerful partners might be possible. 5. 18th International Congress of Linguists Since the speakers and topic organizers first proposed were mostly otherwise engaged or had to withdraw due to unforeseen circumstances, last year was dominated by the search for replacements. The search finally led to the drawing up of a new list which has now been published in the second circular that can be seen at www.cil18.org. This definitive list of invited speakers and topic organizers is published in full below to complete the information. The congress proceedings will be published by John Benjamins Publishers, final responsibility lying with the Secretary-General of CIPL. Participants can obtain the proceedings at the beginning of the congress. Invited Speakers Topic Organizers 6. Conclusion The previously unknown opportunities provided by the Internet have prompted some EC members to ask whether CIPL can continue in the successful realisation of a general bibliography. For years the subscriptions have been falling off dramatically. These matters will require us to put on our thinking caps if we are to take decisions during the 2008 GA for the years following the congress. Major challenges are awaiting us regarding the linguistic policy to be pursued in the future. CIPL would gain in zest and prestige if young promising linguists were to become involved in our work and were to be prepared to place the work in the context of current linguistic trends. |