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Annual Report2021

Contents__________________________________________________________________________________

Introduction

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Executive Committee

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General Assembly

5Members

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Linguistic Bibliography and Linguistic Bibliography Online

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International Congress of Linguists

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CIPSH Chair Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World

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Newsletters

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Travel grants

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Future priorities

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Finances

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Introduction________________________________________________________
It is with great pleasure that we present the Annual Report 2021.
2021 started with a new website. CIPL’s old website was created over twenty years ago andwas hosted in the USA by Ehost. At the time, this was a major step forward in the functioningof CIPL, but in the past few years the old site turned out to be quite impractical.
CIPL is bound to the Netherlands for historical and financial reasons, so it seemed best to
host the website at the Dutch Language Institute, where CIPL also has it seat. Here we canrely not only on a robust IT infrastructure, but also on a professional webmaster. Moreover,
the CIPL secretarial department can add texts directly to the website and will be able to deal
with all data in a flexible way.
The website offers a lot of space for news items. Newsletters are easier to find and anybody
can subscribe to our newsletter with one click of the mouse. The travel grants have also
been given a more prominent place on the site.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, we were also in 2021 able to publish two newsletters, inMarch and October.
And of course we continued the preparations for the ICL21 in Kazan. Prof Hamans visited Kazan
for meetings with the members of the local organization. A scientific committee was composed
and the first call for papers was planned for March 2022.
Also the webmaster of the Dutch language institute developed/designed, in consultation with
the LOC, a website for the congress. Unfortunately, for reasons well-known, the Kazan congress
had to be cancelled. More on page 10.
In April 2021 the board of the Stichting Bibliographie Linguistique (Linguistic Bibliography
Foundation) lost one of its members: Prof Pieter Muysken, a great researcher and a very
inspiring and engaging personality. He was of great importance to the foundation and the BL in
particular.

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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

4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 Brigitte Bauer» Frisian Academy: Prof Hans Van de Velde» 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 Rafal Molencki

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 Susan Fitzmaurice» 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-assembly6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.

● Professor Pieter Seuren
In 2021 we were sad to hear about the loss of Prof Dr Pieter
A.M. Seuren (1934). Pieter Seuren first represented theRoyal Dutch Academy of Sciences in the General Assemblyof CIPL and then the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, bothfor many years. Between 2008 and 2013, he served CIPL asa member of the Executive Committee.
Pieter Seuren was not only a rich source for his friends,
collaborators and students, because of his enormous
erudition, which is also apparent from his popular scientificpublication of capita selecta from history, but also becauseof his enthusiasm. He was able to transfer his curiosity toothers, which made him an inspired and gifted teacher anda much sought-after speaker, who did not spare his listeners. He could be critical and where
he perceived sloppy thinking he became polemical. He will be missed by his former students,
colleagues and friends.

7Linguistic Bibliography
and Linguistic Bibliography Online__________________________________________________________________________________

Linguistic Bibliography Yearbook for 2020
The LB print volume for the year 2020 was published on schedule in September 2021. By
way of experiment, the editors adopted a new policy of only including bibliographicalreferences of publications from 2020 in the yearbook for 2020, while older references would
appear online only on LBO. The aim was twofold: to avoid an overflow of the yearbook
which happened in previous years, and to encourage contributors to focus on collecting themost recent publications, keeping LB up to date. The editors noticed some resistance among
the external contributors, some of whom quietly continued to collect mainly older
publications, while others expressed their concerns about the lack of availability of the mostrecent publications at their libraries. During the preparation of the yearbook in the summerof 2021, it became clear that references from 2020 publications only would not reach the
maximal number of printed pages. Therefore, the supplement (2016-2019) was included as
usual. With its 20,871 entries and 1512 pages, the 2020 yearbook stayed well within theboundaries of the maximum number of 1616 pages (previous yearbook: 22,089 entries, 1582
pages). There was a sharp increase in the percentage of publications of the current year inthis yearbook compared to previous years, which means that the efforts to make LB more up
to date have been successful.

LB yearbook 2021
The focus continues to be on collecting recent publications from 2021, and there are
currently (February 2022) some 8,000 entries ready to be published in the yearbook, which
is about the same as this time last year (8,400 entries). Older publications are still being
collected as well, and may be used to supplement the yearbook. The yearbook for 2021 is
expected to be published in September 2022.

Linguistic Bibliography Online (LBO)
In 2021, the Linguistic Bibliography Online (LBO)
database continued to grow steadily and the
Linguistic Bibliography yearbook for 2020 was
published on schedule in September. With 78% of
the bibliographical entries describing publications
from 2020, this yearbook was more up to date withrecent publications than previous volumes. The
retro-digitization of older yearbooks was wellunderway and the first set of bibliographical records
was prepared for online open access publication. The implementation in the CMS of a toolfor importing online metadata improved the workflow and productivity of the editors andopened up new possibilities for expanding the coverage of the Linguistic Bibliography.
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CMS (content management system)
Near the end of 2021, software developer Ambrac implemented a new tool for importing
metadata which considerably changed and improved the editors’ workflow. The import tool
had been created for and tested by the editors of Brill’s Index Islamicus and was adapted foruse in the LB database. It allows the editors to collect online metadata of publications in
Zotero (bibliographic software) and import it directly into the database, saving them a lot of
copy-pasting work. Rather than wait for the external contributors to start data entry, theeditors use the import tool to prepare records that are immediately ready to be edited by
the contributors.

Retro-digitization
Thirteen yearbooks from the period 1976-1992 were scanned and Ambrac is working on theconversion of bibliographical entries into individual records that will be imported in the LB
database, where they can be checked and edited. The first batch of digitized records ispractically ready to publish.

Contributors
The editorial team is always on the lookout for contributors, particularly for experts in
Ancient Egyptian and Coptic, Armenian, Baltic (Lithuanian, Latvian, Prussian etc.), Belarusian,Hindi, P-Celtic (Welsh, Breton, Cornish). Potential contributors may be referred tobrill.com/page/lbcontributor for more information.

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International Congress of Linguists_________________________________________________________________In the light of the current events, it is impossible to organize XXI ICL in Kazan in 2023. For thisreason the Executive Committee of CIPL had to decide to withdraw the invitation to our
Russian colleagues to organize the next ICL.
At the time, when the Executive
Committee decided to allocate thecongress to its colleagues in Kazan,
there were two offers: one from
Kazan and a second from Adam
Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Therefore the Executive Commitee
has now asked the Adam Mickiewicz
University, AMU/UAM, in Poznań tohost the upcoming 21st International
Congress of Linguists from
September 22 to 28, 2024.
The Faculty of English will act as the main organizer. President of the Congress is Prof
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Vice-Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University.
In the short term, CIPL and AMU/UAM will jointly set up a Scientific Committee that will takecare of the scholarly aspects of the congress.
A website will be opened for the conference in the near future. A call for papers is expectedin the second half of 2022.
CIPL’s Executive Committee wants to express its gratitude for the willingness of thecolleagues in Poznań to organize ICL21 on such short notice.

10Chair Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity
in the World__________________________________________________________________________________The Chair for Ethnolinguistic Vitality andDiversity in the World at Leiden University
is a joint initiative of CIPL and CIPSH.
The Chair-holder is Dr Felix K. Ameka,
Professor of Linguistics and African
Languages and Cultures, Leiden University.
Together with a whole team from the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics (LUCL) he willdevelop a number of activities relating to the topic of this chair.
The chair organized a number of activities over the last year. We highlight a couple of these:•••

Dr Ameka was co-organiser of the Technologies for Enhanced Documentation of
African Languages (TEDAL) eScience Lorentz Workshop.
He was also co-organiser of the 10th World Congress of African Linguistics(WOCAL10). During this conference, a workshop on ‘Centering Pragmatic Phenomena
in African languages’ was held.
During the Leiden Summer School the chair organized the Descriptive andDocumentary Track.

Dr Ameka also took part in the following events:•••

LAGB Linguistics Association of Great Britain Conference: special session on Particles
in African languages as an Invited Discussant.
He was an invited panelist at the American Friends of SOAS (AFSOAS) webinar‘Endangered language documentation: the way forward’.
In November 2021, UNESCO launched the World Atlas of Languages (WAL), tocelebrate and protect linguistic diversity. Dr Ameka is a member of the Scientific
Editorial Committee.

A large number of Public Outreach Events and Academic Meetings 2022 are planned, to give
more visibility to the chair. September 30, 2022, Dr Ameka will formally accept the officewith the delivery of his inaugural address.

11Foundation ‘Stichting Bedreigde Talen’
In 2021 the Stichting Bedreigde Talen (Foundation for Endangered Languages) wasestablished in order to collect additional funding for activities and scholarships to support
the activities of the chair.
The board of the chair consists of:
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Prof Piet van Sterkenburg, president
Mr. Wim Gohres, LL.M., treasurer
Prof Camiel Hamans, secretary
Mr. Nico Cusell, LL.M.
Dr Christopher Houtkamp
Drs Petra Stienen
Prof Tuna Tasan-Kok, members

The scientific curatorium of the chair is formed by:• Prof Maarten Mous (RU Leiden)• Prof Anne Pauwels (SOAS London, U. of Melbourne)• Prof Frieda Steurs (INT Leiden, KU Leuven)12

Newsletters________________________________________________________________________________

Also in 2021 two newsletters were published, in March and October.
In these Newsletters two CIPL members introduced themselves: the Network of Regional
Linguistic and Sociocultural Archives and the Fryske Akademy. Frieda Steurs interviewed
Jean-Christophe Verstraete about his project Documentation of five Paman languages ofCape York Peninsula, Australia.
Other topics were: Travel grants, Bibliographie Linguistique, ICL21, the 50th Poznan meeting,the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody and the history of Kaaps, a sister
language of Afrikaans.
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.

Travel grants, Spring/Summer 2021
Two grants have been awarded to the PhD candidates Joëlle Carotto (University of Buffalo,Suny) and Jeremy Rud (University of California Davis) respectively.
The Italian linguist Joëlle Carota receives the grant for her paper on Spanish as a Heritage
Language in Pescara (Italy) that she is presenting at the 52th Annual Convention of theNortheast Modern Language Association in Philadelphia.
Jeremy Rud’s presentation at the 5th International Language and Law Association
Conference, which will be held in Alicante is titled ‘How should a refugee sound?
Unfortunately, due to the Covid pandemic, the conference Joëlle Carotto wanted to attend took place
online, so no travel costs were made and as a consequence no travel grant was paid. Of course Joëlle canapply for a travel grant again in the future.

Travel grants Autumn 2021
The selection committee for the CIPL travel grants to international conferences has awarded
Fevzudina Saračević from AUE-FON University in Skopje (North Macedonia) a grant toparticipate in the 3rd Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis Conference (Adda3), to beheld May 13-15, 2022 at the St. Petersburg Campus of the University of South Florida.
Fevzudina will present a paper at this conference titled: ‘It appeared because of the stupid
Chinese. They destroyed everything we had.’ Affective and judgmental evaluation of theChinese in Macedonian internet forum discussions on COVID-19.
The travel grant is € 500. The selection committee consists of Prof Frederick J. Newmeyer,(chair) Prof Eno-Abasi Urua and Prof Jacques Moeschler.

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Future priorities__________________________________________________________________________________In September 2022 Dr Felix Ameka will formally accept the office of the Chair Ethnolinguistic
Vitality and Diversity in the World with the delivery of his inaugural address.
The Chair will continue to organize several activities. There will be a five day training workshop
in Dakar for students from West African countries with French as official language. On theInternational Mother Language Day a public event will be organized to promote ethnolinguistic
vitality and diversity. In July 2023 a summer school will be organized in Leiden.
For 2023, we will hopefully be able to participate in and to support workshops organized by ourmembers, if no new lockdowns and restrictions will come up due to Covid. The Network of Regional
Linguistic and Sociocultural Archives in South America plans a workshop in September 2023, and CIPL
will support this.
Furthermore, a lot of attention will be given to the preparation of the ICL congress in Poznan (2024).
We will support the local organizing committee in all possible aspects.
The secretary-general and the associate secretary-general will contact possible new members and try
to expand the list of linguistic associations linked to CIPL.

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Finances__________________________________________________________________________________

Please find enclosed the Financial Statements. The 2021 Annual Report is approved.

Leiden, December 31, 2021

Prof D. Bradley, President CIPL

Prof F. Steurs
Secretary-General16