ICAL is coming to the Philippines for the second time and to Manila for the first time!

The 16th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics will be held in Manila, Philippines on 20-24 June 2024.

The International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL) gathers scholars who work on all aspects of Austronesian languages from varying theoretical and methodological perspectives. It serves as a significant platform for sharing new knowledge and ideas, and for discussing emerging research trends in the context of Austronesian Linguistics. Consequently, it aims to sustain the conversations and discussions on one of the world’s largest and most diverse language families in the areas of historical and comparative linguistics, morphosyntax, language documentation and description, and other relevant subfields of linguistics. ICAL started as a quadrennial conference in 1974, and is now held periodically every 2-3 years and has already been hosted by various institutions around the world.

Following the success of the past ICALs, and in commemoration of its 50th year of inception, the Sixteenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (16-ICAL) is returning to the Philippines and will be held at the De La Salle University, Manila on 20-24 June, 2024. This 5-day event is jointly hosted by the Department of English and Applied Linguistics, De La Salle University (DLSU-DEAL); the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP), and the Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines Diliman (UP-LINGG).
For more information, visit the conference website at https://www.lsphil.net/16ical