The International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL) is an academic conference that focuses on research in
Austroasiatic languages and linguistics.
History
The first ICAAL conference was held at the
University of Hawaiʻi
The University of Hawaiʻi System, formally the University of Hawaiʻi and popularly known as UH, is a public college and university system that confers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through three universities, seven com ...
in
Honolulu
Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island ...
, Hawaii, United States on the first week of January in 1973. After 1979, conferences were no longer held for over 25 years as much of Southeast Asia was inaccessible to Western researchers during many of those years.
On August 30, 2001, in
Périgueux
Périgueux (, ; oc, Peireguers or ) is a communes of France, commune in the Dordogne departments of France, department, in the administrative regions of France, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.
Périgueux i ...
, France, interest in reviving ICAAL was rekindled when
Gérard Diffloth
Gérard Diffloth (born in Châteauroux, France, 1939) is a French linguist who is known as a leading specialist in the Austroasiatic languages. As a retired linguistics professor, he was former employed at the University of Chicago and Cornell Univ ...
,
Michel Ferlus, and
George van Driem
George "Sjors" van Driem (born 1957) is a Dutch linguist associated with the University of Bern, where he is the chair of Historical Linguistics and directs the Linguistics Institute.
Education
* Leiden University, 1983–1987 (PhD, ''A Grammar ...
met to discuss the history and potential future of ICAAL. They then went on to host the ICAAL 3 Pilot Meeting in June 2006 at
Siem Reap
Siem Reap ( km, សៀមរាប, ) is the second-largest city of Cambodia, as well as the capital and largest city of Siem Reap Province in northwestern Cambodia.
Siem Reap has French colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old F ...
, Cambodia, which was funded by the
Dutch Research Council and the
École française d'Extrême-Orient
The French School of the Far East (french: École française d'Extrême-Orient, ), abbreviated EFEO, is an associated college of PSL University dedicated to the study of Asian societies. It was founded in 1900 with headquarters in Hanoi in wh ...
. The ICAAL 3 academic conference was held at the
Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute
Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, also referred to as Deccan College, is a post-graduate institute of Archeology, Linguistics and Sanskrit & Lexicography in Pune, India.
History Early years (1821 to 1939)
Established on 6 Oc ...
in
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...
, India in November 2007, and conferences have since been held biannually. In 2011, ICAAL 5 was scheduled to be held from November 9–11, 2011, at
Mahidol University
Mahidol University (Mahidol), an autonomous research institution in Thailand, had its origin in the establishment of Siriraj Hospital in 1888. Mahidol had an acceptance rate for Medicine of 0.4% as of the 2016 academic year.
Becoming the Univers ...
in Bangkok, Thailand, but the conference was cancelled due to the
2011 Thailand floods
Severe flooding occurred during the 2011 monsoon season in Thailand. The flooding began at the end of July triggered by the landfall of Tropical Storm Nock-ten. These floods soon spread through the provinces of northern, northeastern, and centr ...
. ICAAL 5 was thus postponed to 2013 and held at the
Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...
.
List of meetings
A full list of meetings, including full conferences, workshops, and other meetings, is as follows.
Proceedings
Conference proceedings:
''Second International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (SICAL)'' (Archived mss)
''Papers from the Helsingør symposium on Austroasiatic linguistics and literature'' (Archived mss)
*Nagaraja, K.S., and Kashyap Mankodi. 2007. ''Austroasiatic linguistics: proceedings of Third International Conference of Austroasiatic Linguistics, November 26–28, 2007''. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.
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See also
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List of linguistics conferences
This is a list of recurring linguistics conferences. Included are also a list of organisations that hold recurring meetings under the same name.
By geographical location
International
*Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
*Formal Appr ...
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International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics
References
External links
*{{official, https://icaal.net/ (icaal.net)
Archives of ICAAL 3–6(icaal.org)
Linguistics conferences
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Biennial events