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Annual Report2020

Contents__________________________________________________________________________________

Introduction

3

Executive Committee

4

General Assembly

5Members

7

Linguistic Bibliography and Linguistic Bibliography Online

8

International Congress of Linguists

10

CIPSH Chair Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World

11

Newsletter

12

Travel grants

13

Future priorities

14

Finances

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Introduction________________________________________________________
It is with great pleasure that we present the Annual Report 2020.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, we were able to publish two newsletters and start theorganisation of the next international conference. Once the decision had been taken andpublished that XXI ICL will take place in Kazan in 2023 and the SC had been installed, we
focus on the theme of the conference, keynote speakers and sections. The proposal was
elaborated in an informal consultation between the President, Vice-President and SecretaryGeneral of CIPL, the Scholarly Vice-President of XXI ICL Kazan 2023 and some other membersof the SC. The theme of the conference is “Stepping up towards broader linguistics”.
A number of main sections and focus streams were identified for the conference.
Due to the pandemic, no live events took place in 2020, but the linguistic community got
stronger and closer in organising online events. Some of our members took the lead inorganising a multitude of lectures that could be followed all over the world. We refer toAbralin a Vivo, but other linguistic organisations also took initiatives in this new mode ofsharing ideas.
New members also joined CIPL, one of them being the Network of Linguistic and Sociocultural Archives of South America that was newly established and covers different countries
in South America.
CIPL took part in online conferences with CIPSH and represented the field of linguistics
within the larger context of the humanities.
The LB online is growing with a substantial number of new records, and the project on retrodigitization of early volumes of the LB was launched. Sacha Lubovsky joined the board of the
LB, in replacement of Wim Vandenbussche, whose term as a board member had come to an
end.

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Executive Committee___________________________________________________________________________
Prof David Bradley, President (Australia)
Prof Ik-Hwan Lee, Vice-President (Korea)
Prof Frieda Steurs, Secretary-General (Belgium/The Netherlands)
Prof Dermeval da Hora, member (Brazil)
Prof Raj Mesthrie, member (South Africa)
Prof Fritz Newmeyer, member (Canada)Prof Victoria Rau, member (Taiwan)
Prof Eno-Abasi Urua, member (Nigeria)Prof Camiel Hamans: Associate Secretary-General
Prof Piet van Sterkenburg: Honorary Secretary-General
Prof Reinier Salverda: Special delegate for the UNESCO Atlas of the World's
Languages in Danger
For email addresses etc. check CIPL’s website: http://www.ciplnet.com/addresses-executive-committee● Professor Ferenc Kiefer
In 2020 we were sad to hear about the loss of ourformer President, professor Kiefer.
Ferenc Kiefer will be remembered best as theambassador for linguistics par excellence and theengaging, friendly person who had an encouraging
word for everyone he met. With his knowledge ofmany languages, he was able to easily accesseveryone’s heart. His passing away is a great loss forthe study of the Hungarian language and for
linguistics. He will be sorely missed by his friends andcolleagues.

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General Assembly__________________________________________________________________________________

ARGENTINA» The Network of Regional Linguistic and Sociocultural Archives in SouthAmerica; Prof Lucia Golluscio, Prof Alejandra Vidal and Prof Felipe Hasler

AUSTRALIA» The Australian Linguistic Society: Prof David Bradley

AUSTRIA» Wiener Sprachgesellschaft: Prof Bernhard Hurch

BELGIUM» The Linguistic Society of Belgium: Prof Timothy Colleman» International Pragmatics Association (IPrA): Prof Jef Verschueren» The Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN): Prof Wim Vandenbussche

BRAZIL» The Brazilian Association of Linguistics (ABRALIN): Prof Miguel Oliveira, Jr» The Latin American Association for Linguistics and Philology:
Prof Dermeval da Hora

CANADA» The Canadian Linguistic Association: Prof Fritz Newmeyer

CZECH REPUBLIC » Charles University MFF: Prof Eva Hajicova
FINLAND» The Linguistic Association of Finland: Prof Marja-Liisa Helasvuo

FRANCE» Société de Linguistique de Paris: Prof Alain Lemaréchal
» Société d'histoire et d'épistémologie des sciences du langage:
Prof Camiel Hamans

GEORGIA» Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics:
Prof Tinatin Bolkvadze

GERMANY» Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft: Prof Miriam Butt

HUNGARY» Research Institute for Linguistics/Hungarian Academy of Sciences:
Prof Istvan Kenesei

IRELAND» The School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies:
Prof Liam Breatnach

ISRAEL» Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae Sodalicium Israelense: Prof Ariel Cohen

ITALY» Società Italiana di Glottologia, Società di Linguistica Italiana & Accademia
della Crusca: Prof Giuliano Bernini

JAPAN» Linguistic Society of Japan: Prof Shigeki Kaji

KOREA

» Linguistic Society of Korea: Prof Ik-Hwan Lee

LATVIA» Latvian Language Institute: Dr Agris Timuska

LITHUANIA» The Lithuanian Academy of Sciences: Prof Bonifacas Stundzia
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NETHERLANDS» Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: Prof Pieter Seuren» Frisian Academy: Prof Reinier Salverda» Societas Linguistica Europaea: Prof Camiel Hamans» Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap: Dr Jenneke van der Wal» The Dutch Language Institute: Prof Frieda Steurs

NIGERIA» Linguistic Association of Nigeria: Prof Eno-Abasi UruaNORWAY» Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters: Prof John Ole Askedal

POLAND» Polish Academy of Sciences: Prof Elzbieta Manczak-Wohlfeld

PORTUGAL» Center for the Studies in Letters: Prof Gonҫalo Fernandes» Portuguese Linguistic Association: Prof Ana Maria Brito» Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa; Prof Hugo Cardoso

RUSSIAN FEDERATION» Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Prof Andrej Kibrik
SERBIA» The Applied Linguistics Association of Serbia: Prof Vesna Polovina

SOUTH AFRICA » Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society: Dr Herculene Kotzé
SPAIN» Sociedad Española de lingüística: Prof Manuel Leonetti» Royal Academy for the Basque Language – Euskaltzaindia – :Prof Andrés Urrutia Badiola

SWITZERLAND» The Swiss Linguistics Society: Prof Jacques Moeschler

TAIWAN» Linguistic Society of Taiwan: Prof D. Victoria Rau

TRINIDAD &TOBAGO» Society for Caribbean Linguistics : Dr Jo-Anne Ferreira
TURKEY» Turkish Linguistics Association: Prof Deniz Zeyrek BozşahinUKRAINE» O. O. Potebnya Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciencesof Ukraine: Dr Serhiy Yermolenko

UNITED KINGDOM » The Philological Society and the Linguistics Society of Great Britain:
Prof Aditi Lahiri» International Society for Historical Linguistics (ICHL): Mr John Charles Smith» The International Congress of Celtic Studies:USA» Linguistic Society of America: Prof. Andries W. Coetzee

For email addresses etc. check CIPL’s website: http://www.ciplnet.com/addresses-general-assembly

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Members___________________________________________________________________________All organisations and institutions whose main aims include the promotion of linguisticscience and the advancement of co-operation among linguists, may become members.
An organisation or institution may join CIPL by applying to the Executive Committee (throughthe Secretary-General). The organisation/institution has to appoint a delegate in CIPL's
General Assembly who meets every five years during the ICL.
In 2020 efforts were also made to increase the number of members. The
Network of Regional Linguistic and Sociocultural Archives in South America, Centro de
Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa and the Society for Caribbean Linguistics (Trinidad &Tobago) joined CIPL in 2020.

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Linguistic Bibliography
and Linguistic Bibliography Online__________________________________________________________________________________

Linguistic Bibliography Yearbook for 2019
The LB print volume for the year 2019 was published on schedule in September 2020. The
volume contains 22,089 entries, close to the number of entries in the previous yearbook(22,195), which appears to be the maximum number that the linen-bound volume isphysically able to hold. As the first complete proof of the 2019 yearbook exceeded the
maximum number of pages (1,616), some entries for publications published before 2019were removed from the print edition but still included in the online edition. These comprised
journal articles from the year 2015 and older book entries of which a review was publishedbetween 2015-2018. Older books that were reviewed in 2019 still appeared in the print
edition.

LB yearbook 2020
In order to prevent overflow in the next yearbook, the LB/LBO editorial has instituted a newpolicy. Only bibliographical descriptions of books, articles, and reviews published in 2020 will
be included in the 2020 yearbook, while new entries submitted for older publications will be
published on LBO only. If the number of entries for the print edition is below the maximum,
they will be supplemented by selected older publications that are up to five years old, withpriority given to those from 2019. This will remain our policy for future volumes.
Currently, 8,400 entries are set to be published in the next yearbook, a lower number thanusual (for comparison: 11,869 entries collected by this time last year), so the expectation isthat the yearbook will be supplemented with older material. While the LB editors are mainlycollecting publications from 2020, there has been a large influx of older materials (as usual)from the external contributors. The yearbook is expected to be published in September
2021.

Linguistic Bibliography Online (LBO)
In 2020, the online database saw an increase of
24,746 bibliographical records. In 2020, 54 newjournals were added to the list of periodicals
covered by the LB. Non-linguistic journals that areoccasionally checked for linguistic content are notincluded here. A total of 227 new language
keywords were implemented in the database. The
keyword system for Khoisan languages andlanguage families was revised and expanded in linewith the latest consensus in Khoisan classification research.
A total of 97 new subject keywords were implemented in the database.

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CMS (content management system)
In 2020, software developer Ambrac continued work (off and on) on time-saving templates
for creating new bibliographical records and software for harvesting and importing online
bibliographical data. Several prototype versions were tested, and the results will be
implemented in the CMS in the future.

Retro-digitization
The retro-digitization of older yearbooks (covering 1939-1992) was set in motion and thefirst batches of digitized records have been made available for scrutiny and subsequent
feedback. Currently the OCR (optical character recognition) methods are being fine-tuned inorder to output XML-data that needs a minimum of processing before it can be incorporated
into the LB database and subsequently made available to our clients. The project end isplanned to be concluded in 2024/5.

New bibliographies platform
In 2020, Brill appointed a team to explore the possibility of developing a new online platform
for bibliographies, centered around improved functionality and user-friendliness. LB Editor
Eline van der Veken was regularly involved in formulating platform requirements and data
testing.

Contributors
The editorial team is always on the look-out for contributors, particularly for experts inArmenian, Baltic (Lithuanian, Latvian, Prussian etc.), Catalan, P-Celtic (Welsh, Breton,
Cornish), and Thai. Potential contributors may be referred to brill.com/page/lbcontributor
for more information.

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International Congress of Linguists_________________________________________________________________The upcoming International Congress of Linguists, ICL21, will take place in Kazan(Tatarstan, Russia) from 25 June to 2 July 2023.
ICL21 will be jointly organised by Kazan Federal University and the Institute of
Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Honorary President of theconference will be thePresident of the Republic of
Tatarstan, Mr Rustam
Minnikhanov.
The Congress Presidents willbe Prof Ilshat Gafurov, Rectorof Kazan Federal University,and Dr Andrej A. Kibrik,
Director of the Institute of
Linguistics of the Russian
Academy of Sciences andProfessor of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow.
Prof David Bradley, President of CIPL, will chair the Scientific Committee.
Prof Camiel Hamans, Associate Secretary-General of CIPL, will act as SecretaryGeneral of the Congress.
In due course, a website will be opened on which further information about thesubstantive and organisational aspects of the conference will be published.
Registration will be opened in 2022.
Further information on ICL21 can be obtained from Prof Frieda Steurs, SecretaryGeneral of CIPL (frieda.steurs@ivdnt.org), or Prof Camiel Hamans(hamans@telfort.nl).

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CIPSH Chair Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity
in the World__________________________________________________________________________________

Due to the fruitful cooperation between the ComitéInternational de Philosophie et Sciences Humaines (CIPSH),
CIPL and the University of Leiden, a special chair onendangered languages has been established. “The chair on
ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity” will advance researchand practice of language documentation.
The chair will develop several activities that promote andincrease interest in the advantages of linguistic diversity,
multilingualism and the maintenance of the vitality of minority
and threatened languages. In doing this the chair will promotea language policy based on diversity, which will lead to a better knowledge ofcultures and of the richness of different cultures, which is one of CIPSH’spriorities.
The chair will build a network between important universities and other research
institutes in order to offer both teaching and training, summer schools, workshops
and conferences. This fits in perfectly well with the CIPSH mission statement tohighlight and encourage existing research networks of centres of research in thehumanities and to attract greater attention to the humanities worldwide andenhance recognition of their importance in contemporary society.
In 2020 and 2021 all the activities with regard to the CIPL/CIPSH Chair had to be postponeddue to the COVID-19 crisis.
In 2022, with the support of CIPL, the chair is hoping to organise a workshop on indigenous
languages of South America in Brazil to discuss interdisciplinary methods of language andculture documentation in that part of the world.
In 2023, CIPL will hold its 21st International Congress of Linguists. The chair will organise
panels on ethnolinguistic vitality and language policy as an integral part of the conference.

CIPL annual report 2020 | 11Newsletter__________________________________________________________________________________In CIPL’s annual report over 2018 we mentioned as one of our future priorities a newsletter.
We were very happy to publish our first newsletter in October 2019. The letter was sent toour member organisations with the request to forward this newsletter to their members.
The newsletter was also published via the Linguist List.
We strongly encourage CIPL’s representatives to inform their colleagues and students about
our newsletter. Also, we warmly welcome any information regarding linguistics to be
published in our newsletter.
For 2020, two newsletters were published, in March and October. In these Newsletters there
were two interviews: with Prof Ferenc Kiefer and with Prof Tjeerd de Graaf.
Furthermore, in these Newsletters several new CIPL members introduced themselves:
Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), the Society for Caribbean
Linguistics (Trinidad & Tobago) and the Société d'histoire et d'épistémologie des sciences dulangage (France).
Other issues were: Travel grants, Bibliographie Linguistique, ICL21, Workshops and virtual
conferences.
All our Newsletters can be found on our website.

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Travel grants__________________________________________________________________________________

Every year CIPL awards 5 travel grants of € 500 each (approx. US$ 550). Advanced students
in linguistics without a PhD are eligible to receive a once-only grant to help fund their
participation in a linguistics conference.
A special committee chaired by Prof Dr Frederick J. Newmeyer has assessed the applications.

Travel grants, Spring/Summer 2020
In the spring/summer CIPL awarded three travel grants to:
Melissa Irvine, University of Auckland, New Zealand, for participation in the 23rd Biennial
Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics to be held in Trinidad and Tobago.
Victoria Leonetti Escandel, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, for participation in
the conference ‘Processing of Reference and Anaphora Resolution’ to be held in Brussels.
Teja Rebernik, University of Groningen, Netherlands, for participation in the 12th
International Seminar on Speech Production to be held in Providence.

Travel grants Autumn 2020
In the autumn CIPL awarded three travel grants to:
Natalia Kuznetsova, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy, for participation in the XIIIInternational Congress of Finno-Ugrists, CIFUXIII, to be organised by the Universität Wien,
Vienna, Austria.
Shirly Orr, Tel Aviv University, Israel, for participation in the International Workshop on
Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity to be organised by the Università degli Studi del PiemonteOrientale “Amedeo Avogadro” , Vercelli, Italy.
Paula Schintu Martínez, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, for participation in the 7thInternational Congress of Late Modern English, LmodE-7, to be organised by Università degliStudi di Catania, Ragusa Ibla, Italy.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic most of the 2020 conferences have been postponed, organised
online or canceled. Melissa Irvine was able to ‘attend’ an online conference. The conferences
Victoria Leonetti Escandel, Teja Rerbernik and Shirly Orr wanted to participate in were
unfortunately cancelled.
The Congresses Natalia Kuznetsova and Paula Schintu Martínez want to attend were postponed to
2021.

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Future priorities__________________________________________________________________________________In 2021 we will introduce our new website. This site will be hosted at the Dutch Language
Institute in the Netherlands with a splendid computer infrastructure and a professional
webmaster.
The new website will offer a lot of space for news, and subscribing to our newsletter will
become much easier.
With regard to the Chair of Ethnolinguistic Vitaly and Diversity in the World, in 2021 a
foundation for endangered languages will be established in order to collect additional
funding for activities and scholarships to support the activities of the Chair.
The ICL21 in Kazan will take up a lot of our time and attention; we will have to set out a firstcall for papers and start preparing a lot of different aspects of the conference. If there are no
travel limitations due to COVID, a visit will be made to Kazan by the Secretary-General andthe associate Secretary-General in 2020.
CIPL will also take part in the 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) that was planned for
2020, but due to the health crisis was postponed until 2021. CIPL is responsible for two
tracks in this conference, viz. Future of less-favoured languages: Indigenous, regional andminority status, and How language technology supports multilingualism and language
variety in the modern world.

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Finances__________________________________________________________________________________

Please find enclosed the Financial Statements. The 2020 Annual Report is approved.

Leiden, December 31 2020

Prof D. Bradley, President CIPL

Prof F. Steurs
Secretary-General

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