2001 Meeting Reports

Meetings of the ICLA Governing Board, Cognitive Linguistics Editorial Board, and the Business Meeting of ICLA Assembly, July 2001

A report on the ICLA Governing Board Meeting (held jointly with the meeting of the Cognitive Linguistics editorial board) and associated actions taken at the meeting of the Assembly at ICLC 7, UC Santa Barbara, July 22, 2001.

Present at the Governing Board Meeting: Dirk Geeraerts, President; Maggie Winters, Sectretary/Treasurer; Marjolijn Verspoor, prospective Secretary/Treasurer; Ron Langacker, Past President; Suzanne Kemmer, Representative of Organizing Committee for ICLC 7; Arie Verhagen, Editor of Cognitive Linguistics; Antonio Barcelona, Regular Board Member, and Anke Beck, Editor in Chief, Mouton de Gruyter.

Items of Business

1. Venues for ICLC 2003 and 2005
   Two proposals for the next upcoming ICLCs were presented. The Board recommended that ICLC 8 in 2003 be held at Logroño, Spain, and ICLC 9 in 2005 be held in Seoul, South Korea. Both recommmendations were accepted at the meeting of the ICLA Assembly.
2. ICLA finances
   The financial report for 2001 was approved. The balance in the American account was $6,536.13 and the European account NLG 54,584.59.
3. The Secretary/Treasurer position Margaret Winters (secretary from 1999 to 2001) expressed her wish not to complete her four-year term as Secretary/Treasurer. Marjolijn Verspoor (who had filled this position previously from 1993-1999) expressed willingness to act as such for another term, comprising the four years 2001-2005.
4. It was decided that an improved web site with appropriate domain names would improve communication between the Association and its members. At the ICLA Business Meeting, Dan Parvaz of the University of New Mexico and Anatol Stefanowitsch of the University of Hamburg agreed to be web designer and web editor, respectively.
5. ICLA Regional Affiliates
   A motion to simplify affiliation procedures for local cognitive linguistics associations was approved. Instead of requiring ICLA Assembly approval as previously, now only the ICLA Governing Board needs to approve affiliation.

   Three local cognitive linguistic associations applied for an affiliation with the ICLA: the Finnish Cognitive Linguistics Association, the Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association, and the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association.

   The applications of the Finnish and the Slavic associations were approved by the Board and ICLA Assembly. Unfortunately, the needed information for the Polish Cognitive Linguistic Association was not available at the time of the conference. [After the conference, the Polish Association submitted the needed information to the ICLA board and the affiliation was approved via email in September 2001. Approved affiliates, along with detailed conditions and procedures for affiliation, were posted on Affiliates starting in 2002.]

6. The Editorial Board of Cognitive Linguistics held their meeting as part of the ICLA Governing Board meeting. Arie Verhagen reported on the journal. He also agreed to continue for two more years as journal editor, with the understanding that he would step down after that.
7. The procedure for selecting the new journal editor was codified as follows: "The editor is appointed for an initial term of 6 years, renewable for periods of 2 years each. The year preceding her/his last as editor will be devoted to the gradual handing over of reponsibilities to the new editor. The new editor is selected by the President of the ICLA, the current editor, and the publisher, from a shortlist drawn up up by the ICLA Governing Board in the year preceding the transitional year."
8. Anke Beck reported on journal finances.
9. The Governing Board decided on recommendations for board positions for 2001-2003. An election was held at the meeting of the ICLA Assembly. The following Board members were elected: Suzanne Kemmer (President), Marjolijn Verspoor (Secretary/Treasurer), Ronald Langacker, Sally Rice, and Kee Dong Lee (regular members). Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza was appointed to the Governing Board as representative of the ICLC 8 Organizing Committee. Other Ex-officio members: Arie Verhagen (Editor Cognitive Linguistics) and Dirk Geeraerts (Most recent Past President).

Report submitted by Marjolijn Verspoor; edited for accuracy by Suzanne Kemmer. Approved by the ICLA Governing Board at ICLC 8, Logroño, July 22, 2003. Posted 2003.

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