In the years 1926-1929, the International Committee for Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) developed a variety of activities to support international cooperation in linguistics. It carried out projects aimed at standard setting, for example for grammatical terminology or abbreviations of periodical titles, and international cooperation in different fields of linguistic bibliography such classical studies and general, oriental, and romance linguistics.
At the first international congress of linguists, which took place in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1928, the linguistic community organized itself in a professional association named the Comité International Permanent des Linguistes (CIPL). Cooperation between CIPL and the executive agency of ICIC, the Paris-based Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle (IICI), began forthwith.
Amongst the recommendations of the The Hague Congress was a request to governements and the competent...
Show moreIn the years 1926-1929, the International Committee for Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) developed a variety of activities to support international cooperation in linguistics. It carried out projects aimed at standard setting, for example for grammatical terminology or abbreviations of periodical titles, and international cooperation in different fields of linguistic bibliography such classical studies and general, oriental, and romance linguistics.
At the first international congress of linguists, which took place in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1928, the linguistic community organized itself in a professional association named the Comité International Permanent des Linguistes (CIPL). Cooperation between CIPL and the executive agency of ICIC, the Paris-based Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle (IICI), began forthwith.
Amongst the recommendations of the The Hague Congress was a request to governements and the competent bodies of the League of Nations to organise a global survey of languages and dialects, as many of these were disapearing before they had been studied. This recommendation had been prepared by a group of linguists that had been invited by the IICI to discuss problems of linguistic biography in March 1928, one month before the Congress. The CIPL established a Commission d’Enquête Linguistique under the chairmanship of Antione Meillet, in order to prepare this survey. The Sub-Committee for Science and Bibliography of the ICIC charged the IICI to organise an expert meeting to study the question of ‘exotic languages in the process of extinction’ in more detail.
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