25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics

 The 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics was held in Oxford in August 2022, organised primarily by Holly Kennard, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden.

It brought 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; interfaces between historical linguistics and other disciplines; and many other related areas. ICHL25 hosted 412 participants, including 101 students, from 185 academic institutions. Participants came from 43 countries - from Australia to Ghana to UAE to Canada to Eastern & Western Europe - to present 288 papers and 59 posters. A selection of papers has been published in our conference proceedings.