Supplement to ICAME Constitution:

Information on specific dates and post-holders

Last updated: 25.06.2007

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ICAME currently makes English text corpora and associated tools available to researchers and institutions by means of a service provided by Knut Hofland of the Aksis Centre, at the University of Bergen.

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ICAME provides a forum for research and discussion on English corpus linguistics, by

· sponsoring an annual conference, through the offices of the ICAME member who serves as host. For 2008, this is Andreas Jucker, Ascona, Switzerland. The conference will take place on 14–18 May.

· publishing a journal currently named the ICAME Journal. The current editors are Merja Kytö and Anna-Brita Strenström, the review editor is Jan Aarts, the production of camera-ready copy is carried out at AKSIS, and the printing and distribution manager is Paul Rayson.

· maintaining the Corpora List, which task has been carried out by Knut Hofland of the Aksis Centre, at the University of Bergen. As of May 2007, Lancaster University and UCE in Birmingham will join the effort. This innovation will be reviewed in May 2009.

· maintaining the ICAME bibliography, which task was originally carried out by Bengt Altenberg, formerly of Lund University, and which inventory is now available in self-updatable form at: gandalf.aksis.uib.no/icame.html

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The ICAME journal is an excellent publication, which needs a level of guaranteed readership in order to budget for production costs. The ICAME association does not have a subscription fee, but from May 2008, a fee of £20 will be added to the conference registration fee. In return, each ICAMEr will be provided with a copy of the Journal. This innovation will be reviewed in May 2009.

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Honorary life membership of ICAME

Stig Johansson, Henry Kučera, Geoff Leech, Matti Rissanen, Jan Svartvik, and Jan Aarts have been awarded life membership

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Election of chairperson and secretary

The next date for election of ICAME Chairman is May 2008. The current Chair is eligible for re-election once. The next date for election of Board Secretary has been set at May 2009, to allow the current Secretary to support any transition to new Chair.

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Officers undertaking specific tasks and responsibilities
Current officers undertaking specific tasks and responsibilities on behalf of ICAME are as in Paragraph 2d above.

An addition to the ICAME Constitution:

ICAME Board Bursary

To honour the scholarly achievement of John Sinclair, to whose memory the 28th ICAME conference was dedicated, it was agreed that the Advisory Board members will each contribute a sum to a bursary which will be awarded to an early career ICAMEr who delivers the best paper at each forthcoming conference. Candidates must make clear to the Chair and Secretary that they wish to be considered, and the Board will undertake to have the paper audited appropriately. This innovation will be reviewed in May 2009.