Contact: Fernande Dupuis
Email: ICHL2007@uqam.ca

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2007 

The 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 2007) will be
held August 6 - 11, 2007 at the Universite du Quebec eMontreal, Montreal, Canada. 

Abstracts: The deadline for submission of abstracts for papers (20 min. + 10
min. for discussion) is February 1, 2007, and decisions will be emailed to
authors by March 15. Those who need an earlier decision on an abstract should
contact the conference organizers (see below). Abstracts (no more than 250
words) should be submitted on our website (available mid-September). 

ICHL 2007 invites papers on any aspect of historical linguistics with special
emphasis on the following topics:

- Native American historical linguistics;
- Linguistic theory and language change; 
- Socio-historical linguistics (contact and culture);
- Language acquisition and language change;
- Corpora and computational tools;
- African historical linguistics;
- Diachronic semantics and pragmatics;
- Language change in real time;
- Evolutionary phonology;
- Origins of Germanic;
- Nouvelle-France : le francais de la colonisation;
- Historical grammar and Spanish dialectology;
- Word order in the evolution of French.

For those who wish to propose a workshop, the deadline is October 15, 2006.
The proposal should contain a detailed description and a list of potential
participants.  
For details on submitting a workshop, please contact Fernande Dupuis
(ICHL2007@uqam.ca).

For additional details (including on travel, lodging and registration), please
visit our website (coming soon) or contact the organizers.

E-mail: ICHL2007@uqam.ca
Snail mail: 
ICHL Organizing Committee 
Departement de linguistique et de didactique des langues,
Universite du Quebec e Montreal, 
C.P. 8888, succcursale Centre-Ville,
Montreal, Qc. H3C 3P8

This conference is supported by the following projects and institutions:
Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Mod?liser le changement : les voies du
francais, Universite d'Ottawa.
Institut des sciences cognitives, Universite du Quebec eMontreal.
Departement de linguistique et de didactique des langues, Universie du Quebece
Montreal.