ICHoLS XIII The 13th International Conference on the History of Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII) will be held at the Centro de Estudos em Letras (CEL) of the Universidade de Trás-osMontes e Alto Douro (UTAD), in Vila Real, Northern Portugal, during 25–29 August 2014. ICHoLS conferences have taken place every three years since 1978. Previous venues have been Ottawa (1978), Lille (1982), Princeton (1984), Trier (1987), Galway (1990), Washington (1993), Oxford (1996), Fontenay-St. Cloud (1999), São Paulo-Campinas (2002), Urbana-Champaign (2005), Potsdam (2008), and Saint Petersburg (2011). Papers relating to any aspect of the history of language sciences are invited, focusing on diverse topic areas ranging from antiquity to the contemporary history of linguistics and from individual case studies to methodological considerations. The organizers ask that proposals for papers be made in the form of abstracts of 400 words, including a few pertinent references, in an anonymized Word doc or rtf file accompanying the email communication and addressed to [email protected] The official languages of the conference will be English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. The absolute deadline for receipt of abstracts is July 15th, 2013. An international panel of referees will select the papers to be presented at the conference. Final selection will be made by September 2013; notification of acceptance will be sent before December 1st, 2013. For further information please contact the local members of the executive board by using the above email address. EXECUTIVE BOARD Honorary President: E.F.K. Koerner President: Carlos Assunção Vice-President: Gonçalo Fernandes Secretary: Rolf Kemmler Executive Secretary: Marlene Loureiro Regular members: Maria Helena Santos Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez Sónia Coelho Susana Fontes Teresa Moura Contact: [email protected]