The International Congress of Linguists (ICL) takes place every five years, under the governance of the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (PICL) / Comité International Permanent des Linguistes (CIPL). The 19th ICL was held in Geneva, Switzerland in 2013. The 20th ICL was held in Cape Town, South Africa from 2–6 July 2018 on the topic of "The Diversity of Language".20th International Congress of Linguists The next (21st) ICL was originally planned to take place in Kazan (Tatarstan), Russia) from 25 June to 2 July 2023. However, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the venue was changed and the Congress moved by one year. It took place in Poznań, Poland at the Adam Mickiewicz University, 8–14 September 2024.Poznań, new venue of XXI ICL
The next, 22nd Congress will be held on 23–29 July 2028 in Leiden, Netherlands as a centenary of CIPL. The proposed title is World of Languages.
History and successive venues
The ICL was started in April 1928 in The Hague,CIPL - Me Kono where it organized its first edition, and subsequent editions have been held in cities such as Geneva in 1931,2e Congrès International des Linguistes - Persée (French) Rome in 1933 and Copenhagen in 1936.4e Congrès International des Linguistes - Persée (French) The first congress has been read as marking an intellectual split of the emergent discipline of linguistics from traditional philology,John Walmsley, ‘“A Term of Opprobrium”: Twentieth Century Linguistics and English Philology’, in History of Linguistics 2008: Selected Papers from the 11th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS XI), Potsdam, 28 August–2 September 2008, ed. by Gerda Hassler and Gesina Volkmann, Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 115 (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2011), pp. 35–47 (pp. 39–41). though in 1952, the seventh congress was held in London, hosted by the Philological Society. A more recent congress took place in Paris in 1997.
The 18th International Congress of Linguists took place in 2008 in the city of Seoul, South Korea.ICL 2008 in Seoul Korea
The Swiss Linguistics Society (SSG) proposed that the 19th congress would be organized in Ferdinand de Saussure’s city Geneva, one century after he died, to commemorate his important contributions to the field of linguistics. The events took place from July 21 to July 27, 2013.ICL 2013 conference - Me Kono The 19th ICL was about the language-cognition interface, a topic of cognitive linguistics based on the foundational work of Ferdinand de Saussure, a Swiss linguist who is widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics. During the Congress, several sessions were held about major aspects of linguistics, including the origin of language, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.
List
# Year Date City Country Note 1 1928 04 The Hague Netherlands 2 1931 Geneva Switzerland 3 1933 Rome Italy 4 1936 Copenhagen Denmark 4) 1939) Brussels) Belgium) cancelled because of World War II 5 1948 Paris France after WW2 7 1952 London United Kingdom 8 1957 Oslo Norway 9 1962 Cambridge, Mass. USA 10 1967 Bucharest Romania 11 1972 Bologna Italy 12 1977 Vienna Austria 13 1982 Tokyo Japan 14 1987 Berlin Germany 15 1992 ?, Quebec Canada 16 1997 Paris France 17 2003 Prague Czech Republic 18 2008 Seoul South Korea 19 2013 07-21–27 Geneva Switzerland 20 2018 07-02–06 Capetown South Africa 20) 2023) 06-25 – 07-02 Kazan (Tatarstan) Russia cancelled as Russia invaded Ukraine 21 2024 09-08–14 Poznań Poland 22 2028 07-23–29 Leiden Netherlands planned
See also List of linguistics conferences
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