IMPORTANT DATES
20-24 JUN 2024
16th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
ABOUT ICAL
The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. Malagasy is a geographic outlier, which is spoken on Madagascar. Austronesian has ten primary subgroups, nine of them found in Taiwan (the Formosan languages) and one ancestral to all other members of the family (Malayo-Polynesian languages). Austronesian is one of the largest language families in the world, both in terms of number of languages (1244 according to Ethnologue) and in terms of the geographical extent of the homelands of its languages (from Madagascar to Easter Island).
AVSTER
south
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νῆσος
island
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austronesisch
Austronesian
The term Austronesian was coined by Wilhelm Schmidt. It comes from the Latin auster and the Ancient Greek nêsos in reference to the islands south of the Asian mainland.
ICAL
The International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL) gathers scholars who work on all aspects of Austronesian languages from varying theoretical and methodological perspectives. It serves as a significant platform for sharing new knowledge and ideas, and for discussing emerging research trends in the context of Austronesian Linguistics. Consequently, it aims to sustain the conversations and discussions on one of the world’s largest and most diverse language families in the areas of historical and comparative linguistics, morphosyntax, language documentation and description, and other relevant subfields of linguistics. ICAL started as a quadrennial conference in 1974, and is now held periodically every 2-3 years and has already been hosted by various institutions around the world.
16-ICAL
Following the success of the past ICALs, and in commemoration of its 50th year of inception, the Sixteenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (16-ICAL) is returning to the Philippines and will be held at the De La Salle University, Manila on 20-24 June, 2024. This 5-day event is jointly hosted by the Department of English and Applied Linguistics, De La Salle University (DLSU-DEAL); the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP), and the Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines Diliman (UP-LINGG).
PAST ICAL CONFERENCES
1-ICAL
January 2-7, 1974
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2-ICAL
January 4-12, 1978
Canberra, Australia
3-ICAL
January 19-24, 1981
Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
4-ICAL
August 13-18, 1984
Suva, Fiji
5-ICAL
January 11-16, 1988
Auckland, New Zealand
ICAL STEERING COMMITTEE
Until 16-ICAL:
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Alexander Adelaar (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
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Laura Arnold (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
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Isabelle Bril (CNRS, France)
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Shirley Dita (De La Salle University, the Philippines)
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Emily Gasser (Swarthmore College, USA)
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David Gil (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany)
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Atsuko Kanda Utsumi (Meisei University, Japan)
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Daniel Kaufman (The City University of New York, USA)
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František Kratochvíl (Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia)
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Bill Palmer (University of Newcastle, Australia)
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Narivelo Rajaonarimanana (University of Antananarivo, Madagascar)
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Baholisoa Simone Ralalaoherivony (University of Antananarivo, Madagascar)
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Antonia Soriente (University of Naples "L’Orientale", Italy)
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Elizabeth Zeitoun (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
THE 16-ICAL COMMITTEE
Shirley N. Dita
De La Salle University
Convenor, 16-ICAL
Chair, DLSU-DEAL
Aldrin P. Lee
University of the Philippines Diliman
Co-Convenor, 16-ICAL
President, Linguistic Society of the Philippines
Maria Kristina S. Gallego
University of the Philippines Diliman
Co-Convenor, 16-ICAL
Chair, UP-LINGG
16-ICAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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Aireen Arnuco (DEAL, De La Salle University)
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Robin de los Reyes (Linguistic Society of the Philippines)
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Honeylet Dumoran (Linguistic Society of the Philippines)
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Divine Angeli Endriga (Department of Linguistics, UP Diliman)
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Rynj Gonzales (Linguistic Society of the Philippines)
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Rodney Jubilado (Linguistic Society of the Philippines)
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Rochelle Irene Lucas (DEAL, De La Salle University, Philippines)
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Naonori Nagaya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Philip Rentillo (DEAL, De La Salle University)
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Francisco Rosario, Jr. (Department of Linguistics, UP Diliman)
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Vincent Christopher Santiago (Department of Linguistics, UP Diliman)
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Michael Tanangkingising (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan)
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Louward Zubiri (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)