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| International Association for Historical Linguistics | |
|---|---|
| Name | International Association for Historical Linguistics |
| Abbreviation | IASHLing |
| Formation | 1930s |
| Type | Learned society |
| Headquarters | Geneva |
| Region served | Worldwide |
| Membership | Scholars, students, institutions |
| Leader title | President |
| Leader name | Franz R. H. R. (example) |
International Association for Historical Linguistics is a learned society dedicated to the comparative study of language change, language families, and diachronic description. It brings together scholars from institutions such as University of Oxford, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Université de Paris, and University of Tokyo as well as researchers associated with projects at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, British Museum, and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The association links work on Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Uralic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger–Congo, and Indigenous American languages with traditions represented at Linguistic Society of America, Royal Asiatic Society, Deutscher Altphilologenverband, Società Italiana di Glottologia, and Société de Linguistique de Paris.
Founded amid interwar scholarly networks associated with conferences in Geneva, the association developed from contacts among members of Leipzig University, University of Vienna, Sorbonne, and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Early figures linked to the association included scholars from University of Göttingen, University of Edinburgh, Harvard University, University of Chicago, University of Leiden, and University of Bologna, reflecting influence from the comparative work of Franz Bopp-inspired traditions and echoes of research at institutions like St. Petersburg University and University of Warsaw. During the postwar period the association expanded ties with specialists at Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Australian National University, University of Delhi, Peking University, and Seoul National University, facilitating dialogue across conferences in cities such as Prague, Moscow, Rome, Zurich, and Stockholm.
Membership draws individual and institutional affiliates from networks connected to Institute for Advanced Study, École Normale Supérieure, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of Melbourne, National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of São Paulo, and University of Cape Town. Governance typically involves officers elected from faculty at University of Oxford, Yale University, University of Geneva, Princeton University, and Heidelberg University. Committees coordinate collaboration with organizations including European Science Foundation, UNESCO, National Endowment for the Humanities, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and Swiss National Science Foundation. Membership categories mirror structures at British Academy, American Philosophical Society, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and Royal Society of Edinburgh.
The association convenes international congresses and symposia hosted by universities such as University of Vienna, Charles University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Leiden, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Oslo, Trinity College Dublin, and University of Iceland. Sessions frequently intersect with meetings of Linguistic Society of America, North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, Association for Linguistic Typology, and regional gatherings at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ankara University, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and University of Hong Kong. Special panels have been organized in response to initiatives at European University Institute, Institute for Advanced Study, and collaborative workshops with Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and CNRS.
The association sponsors edited volumes and proceedings produced in collaboration with presses like Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, De Gruyter, Brill, and John Benjamins Publishing Company. It issues newsletters and monograph series akin to those from Blackwell, Routledge, MIT Press, and Columbia University Press. Awards recognize lifetime achievement in the tradition of honors given by Royal Society, British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and specialist prizes similar to the Fridtjof Nansen Prize or the Sprachwissenschaftliche Auszeichnung. Prize committees have included scholars affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles, University of Chicago, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and University of Leiden.
Research programs within the association foster comparative work on families represented at University of Copenhagen (Uralic), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Indo-European), University of Helsinki (Finno-Ugric), Australian National University (Austronesian), National University of Mongolia (Mongolic), and Chulalongkorn University (Austroasiatic). Special interest groups liaise with projects at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Finnish Institute for the Languages. Collaborations also include digital initiatives inspired by datasets from Oxford Text Archive, Project Gutenberg, Perseus Project, Torontensis Corpus, and corpora maintained at Linguistic Data Consortium.
Outreach engages partner institutions such as UNESCO, European Commission, Council of Europe, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, and regional academies like Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Polish Academy of Sciences. The association coordinates summer schools and training with School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, SIL International, Haskins Laboratories, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and university programs at University of Leiden and University of Edinburgh. Collaborative projects have been hosted with museums and archives including the British Museum, Vatican Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and National Archives of India.
Scholarly impact is evident through citations in works from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and influence on curricula at University of Oxford, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Sorbonne University, and University of Tokyo. Criticism has arisen similar to debates at Linguistic Society of America and Association for Computational Linguistics regarding methodological balance between comparative reconstruction and computational phylogenetics promoted by groups at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, EMBL-EBI, and Santa Fe Institute. Debates have paralleled controversies encountered at Royal Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and within funding discussions at European Research Council and Wellcome Trust.
Category:Learned societies