A symposium organized by Rene Dirven, held in Duisburg in the spring
of 1989, marked the birth of Cognitive Linguistics as a broadly
grounded, self-conscious intellectual movement. At that conference,
initiation of the journal Cognitive Linguistics was announced and
plans were made to form the International Cognitive Linguistics
Association. Additionally, agreement was reached to launch the
monograph series Cognitive Linguistics Research. The Duisburg
symposium was retroactively called the First International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference.
Since then, the ICLC has been held biennially, with the exception of
2009 when the conference was cancelled by the conference organizer.
Conferences
ICLC venues and main organizers:
First ICLC 1989, University of Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany (Rene Dirven)
Second ICLC 1991, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, U.S. (Gene Casad)
Third ICLC 1993, July 18-23, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (Dirk Geeraerts)
Fourth ICLC 1995, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque,
Albuquerque, U.S. (Sherman Wilcox)
Fifth ICLC 1997, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Theo Jansen and Gisela Redeker)
Sixth ICLC 1999, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (Erling Wande)
Seventh ICLC 2001, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara, U.S. (Ron Langacker)
Eighth ICLC 2003, July 20-25, 2003, University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain (Francisco J. Ruiz De Mendoza)
Ninth ICLC 2005, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
(Conference Chair: Hyon-Sook Shin).
Tenth ICLC 2007, Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland
(Elzbieta Tabakowska)
Eleventh ICLC 2011, Xi'an, China, July 11-17, 2011 (Dingfang Shu, Thomas Li)
Upcoming:
Twelfth ICLC 2013, Edmonton, Canada, June 2013 (Sally Rice,
John Newman)
ICLA Presidents
Regular 2-year terms begin in July, immediately after the ICLC in a given year.
1990-1993 George Lakoff
1993-1995 Eve Sweetser
1995-1997 Rene Dirven
1997-1999 Ron Langacker
1999-2001 Dirk Geeraerts
2001-2003 Suzanne Kemmer
2003-2005 Suzanne Kemmer (re-elected)
2005-2007 Klaus-Uwe Panther
2007-2009 Laura Janda
2009-2011 Laura Janda (term extended due to lack of 2009 business meeting)
2011-2013 Chris Sinha
Cognitive Linguistics editors
1990-1995 Dirk Geeraerts
1995-2003 Arie Verhagen
2003-2006 Adele Goldberg
2006-present Ewa Dabrowska
Secretary/Treasurers
Regular 4-year terms begin in July, immediately after the ICLC in a given year.
1990-1993 Johan van Parijs (appointed to pre-constitution term of
undefined length)
1993-1999 Marjolijn Verspoor (served 4-year term and 2 years of elected second 4-year term)
1999-2001 Margaret Winters (served 2 years of 4-year term)
2001-Dec. 2004 Marjolijn Verspoor (served 3 1/2 years of 4-year term)
2005-2011, Ad Foolen (was Acting Secretary-Treasurer, Jan.-July
2005; elected to 4-year term July 2005; term extended to 2011 due to
cancellation of ICLC 2009)
2011-2015, Ad Foolen, re-elected for another 4 year term.