Annual Conferences

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IACL holds one international conference on Chinese linguistics as its annual conference.  Only members of the Association are eligible to participate.  Membership is open to all scholars and students with an interest consistent with the objectives of the Association.  The following lists future and past Annual Conferences of IACL (in reverse chronological order).  Follow links, where available, to read more details.


Forthcoming Conference:

IACL 19 will be held at Nankai University, Tianjin, China on June 11-13, 2011.

Conference web site: TBA

Past Conferences

2010: IACL-18.   The 18th Annual Conference of the IACL (IACL-18) was held on May 20-22, 2010 in conjunction with the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22). More details of the conference can be found at IACL-18 & NACCL 22 home page.

2009: IACL-17.   The 17th Annual Conference of the IACL (IACL-17) was held on July 2-July 4, 2009 in Paris, France. IACL 17 home page

2008: IACL-16.   The 16th Annual Conference of the IACL (IACL-16) was held on May 30-June 2, 2008 in Peking University, China. IACL 16 home page

2007: IACL-15.   The 15th Annual Conference of the IACL (IACL-15) was held on May 25-27, 2007 in conjunction with the 19th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-19). More details of the conference can be found at IACL-14 & NACCL 19 home page.

2006: IACL-14.   The 14th Annual Conference of the IACL (IACL-14) was held on May 25-29, 2006 in conjunction with IsCLL 10 at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. More details of the conference can be found at IACL-14 & IsCLL 10 home page.

2005: IACL-13.   The 13th Annual Conference of the IACL (IACL-13) was held on June 9-11, 2005 in Leiden, the Netherlands. More details of the conference are available at the IACL-12 home page.

2004: IACL-12.   The 12th Annual Conference of the IACL (IACL-12) was held on June 18-20, 2004 in Tianjin, China, under the auspices of School of Chinese Culture and Literature, Nankai University. More details of the conference are available at the IACL-12 home page.

2002: IACL-11.   The 11th Annual Conference of the IACL (IACL-11) was held on August 20-22, 2002 in Nagoya (Nagakute), Aichi, Japan, under the auspices of Department of Chinese Studies, Aichi Prefectural University. More details of the conference are available at the IACL-11 home page.

2001: IACL-10/NACCL-13.   The 10th International Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-10), in conjunction with the 13th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-13), was held at Irvine, California, under the auspices of the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, on June 22-24, 2001. More details of the conference are available at the IACL-10/NACCL-13 home page.

2000: IACL-9/ICCL-9.   The 9th International Conference of Chinese Linguistics (ICCL-9) of the IACL was held at IACL’s birthplace, Singapore, under the auspices of the Center for Advanced Studies, National University of Singapore, on June 26-28.  More details of the conference are available at the ICCL-9/IACL-9 home page.

1999: IACL-8.  The 8th Annual Conference of the IACL (IACL-8) was held July 5-7, 1999 in Melbourne, Australia, under the auspices of the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, University of Melbourne. More information may be found at the IACL-8 home page

1998: IACL-7/NACCL-10. The 7th Annual Conference of the IACL (IACL-7) was held at Stanford University on and hosted by its Department of Asian Languages.

1997: IACL-6. The 6th Annual Conference (IACL-6) was hosted by the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands, in close cooperation with the International Institute for Asian Studies.

1996: ICCL-5.  The 5th Annual Conference (ICCL-5) was held at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and hosted by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics.

1995: ICCL-4/NACCL-7.  The 4th Annual Conference (ICCL-4) was held at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin, and hosted by its Department of East Asian Languages and Literature.  The conference was held in conjunction with NACCL-7, the 7th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics.

1994: ICCL-3.  ICCL-3 took place in July 1994 in Hong Kong under the auspices of the Language Information Sciences Research Centre of the City University of Hong Kong.

1993: ICCL-2.  ICCL-2 was held in June 1993 at the Minstére de la Recherche et de l'Espace, in Paris, under the auspices of the Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale of the C.N.R.S., France.

1992: ICCL-1.  The IACL was created during the First International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL-1) at the National University of Singapore, in June 1992.



NACCL Conference: held in conjunction with IACL(ICCL) in North America
  Host Institution Organizers Year
NACCL-1 Ohio State University James Tai
Marjorie Chan
Robert Sanders
1989
NACCL-2 University of Pennsylvania Jerome Packard 1990
NACCL-3 Cornell University James Huang 1991
NACCL-4 University of Michigan William Baxter
San Duanmu
1992
NACCL-5 University of Delaware Tom Ernst 1993
NACCL-6 University of Southern California Audrey Li 1994
NACCL-7/ICCL-4 University of Wisconsin at Madison Tsai-Fa Cheng
Yafei Li
Hongming Zhang
1995
NACCL-8 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chin-chuan Cheng 1996
NACCL-9 University of Victoria, BC Canada Hua Lin 1997
NACCL-10/IACL-7 Stanford University Chaofen Sun 1998
NACCL-11 Harvard University Baozhang He 1999
NACCL-12 San Diego State University Zhengsheng Zhang 2000
NACCL-13/IACL-10 University of California at Irvine James Huang 2001
NACCL-14 University of Arizona Feng-hsi Liu 2002
NACCL-15 Michigan State University Yen-Hwei Lin 2003
NACCL-16 University of Iowa Ke, Chuanren 2004
NACCL-17 Monterey Language Institute Gao, Qian 2005
NACCL-18 Western Washington University Xing, Janet 2006
NACCL-19/IACL-15 Columbia University Liu, Lening 2007
NACCL-20 Ohio State University Chan, Marjorie 2008
NACCL-21 Bryant University Xiao, Yun 2009
NACCL-22 / IACL-18 Harvard University James Huang 2010

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