Abstract
The jubilee 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 50 years after the first ICHL conference, was held from 4 to 8 September 2023 in the new main building of the University of Heidelberg.
The ICHL brings together historical linguists and specialists in related fields to explore advances in areas including methods and practices of linguistic reconstruction; formal and functional 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.