The International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL) is an academic conference that focuses on research in
Austroasiatic languages
The Austroasiatic languages ( ) are a large language family spoken throughout Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia. These languages are natively spoken by the majority of the population in Vietnam and Cambodia, and by minority popu ...
and linguistics.
History
The first ICAAL conference was held at the
University of Hawaiʻi
The University of Hawaiʻi System is a public college and university system in Hawaii. The system confers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through three universities, seven community colleges, an employment training center, ...
in
Honolulu
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, 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 (, ; or ) is a commune in the Dordogne department, in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.
Périgueux is the prefecture of Dordogne, and the capital city of Périgord. It is also the seat of ...
, France, interest in reviving ICAAL was rekindled when
Gérard Diffloth
Gérard Diffloth (13 February 1939 – 14 August 2023) was a French linguist known as a leading specialist in the Austroasiatic languages. As a linguistics professor, he was employed at the University of Chicago and Cornell University. He receiv ...
,
Michel Ferlus
Michel Ferlus (; 1935 – 10 March 2024) was a French linguistics, linguist who specialized in the historical phonology of languages of Southeast Asia. In addition to phonological systems, he also studied writing systems, in particular the evoluti ...
, and
George van Driem
George "Sjors" van Driem (born 1957) is a Dutch professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Bern. He studied East Asian languages and is known for the father tongue hypothesis.
Education
* Leiden University, 1983–1987 (PhD, ''A Gra ...
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 (, ) is the second-largest city of Cambodia, as well as the capital and largest city of Siem Reap Province in northwestern Cambodia.
Siem Reap possesses French-colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old French Quarter ...
, Cambodia, which was funded by the
Dutch Research Council
The Dutch Research Council (NWO, Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) is the national research council of the Netherlands. NWO funds thousands of top researchers at universities and institutes and steers the course o ...
and the
École française d'Extrême-Orient
The French School of the Far East (, ; also translated as The French School of Asian StudiesPreferred translation by EFEO staff. SeEFEO official website), abbreviated EFEO, is an associated college of PSL University dedicated to the study of ...
. 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 O ...
in
Pune
Pune ( ; , ISO 15919, ISO: ), previously spelled in English as Poona (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1978), is a city in the state of Maharashtra in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau in Western ...
, 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 is an autonomous university, autonomous public university, public research university in Thailand. The university was founded as part of Siriraj Hospital in 1888. It was first called the University of Medical Science in 1943, ...
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 cen ...
. ICAAL 5 was thus postponed to 2013 and held at the
Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...
.
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
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References
External links
*{{official, https://icaal.net/ (icaal.net)
Archives of ICAAL 3–6(icaal.org)
Linguistics conferences
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