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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Date: 1<sup>st</sup>
July – 5<sup>th</sup> July 2018<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Location:
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Conference organisers:<span> </span>Bethwyn
Evans (</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:bethwyn.evans@anu.edu.au" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">bethwyn.evans@anu.edu.au</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span> </span>Nick
Evans (</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:nicholas.evans@anu.edu.au" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">nicholas.evans@anu.edu.au</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">) <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span> </span>Simon
Greenhill (</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:simon.greenhill@anu.edu.au" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">simon.greenhill@anu.edu.au</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span> </span>Jennifer
Hendriks (</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:jennifer.hendriks@anu.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">jennifer.hendriks@anu.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">)<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">ICHL24
Site: </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The Australian National University (ANU) is hosting
the 24<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24),
from 1<sup>st</sup> July – 5<sup>th</sup> July 2018. Abstracts are invited for
workshop proposals to be submitted by <b>29<sup>th</sup>
July 2018</b> and for papers in the general session to be submitted by <b>14<sup>th</sup> September 2018</b>.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">This biennial conference brings together historical
linguists and specialists in related fields to explore advances in areas
including methods and practices of linguistic reconstruction, formal approaches
to language change, historical sociolinguistics, computational approaches to
historical linguistics, contact and areal linguistics, and interfaces between
historical linguistics and other disciplines, and many other related areas.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Workshop proposals should be a maximum of 2 pages
(excluding references) and give a description that includes the workshop
research questions and goals, as well as a list of up to five potential
participants with their possible paper topics. Conference participants will
also be invited to submit abstracts for possible inclusion in a workshop in the
general call for abstracts. Acceptance of workshops will be announced by
mid-August 2018. Workshop proposals are to be submitted using the online form
here: </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/call-for-papers/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/call-for-papers/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Abstracts for papers in the general session should
be no more than one page with </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">12pt font, and can include a second page for
references. Scholars may submit a maximum of two papers, whether sole authored
or co-authored. This includes submissions to workshops. Acceptance of abstracts
will be announced by mid-November 2018.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Abstracts may be submitted for the general session
or for one of the workshops. Abstracts submitted for a workshop, but not
accepted there, will be automatically considered for inclusion in the general
session. If authors wish to submit an abstract for a workshop, we encourage
them to contact the workshop organizers ahead of time for advice on workshop
coherence.<span></span></span></p>
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proposals and abstracts will be reviewed by members of the ICHL24 Organising
Committee. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span></span></span></p>
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