The conference ICHL will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Historical Linguistics :

• Historical linguistics
• Language change and historical linguistics
• Models of linguistic change
• Modern perspectives on language change
• Language and prehistory
• Sound change and types
• Loanwords and borrowing
• Analogical change
• Comparative method and linguistic reconstruction
• Linguistic classification
• Internal reconstruction
• Syntactic change
• Distant genetic relationship
• Linguistic prehistory
• Diachronic and synchronic analysis
• Sub-fields of historical linguistics
• Comparative linguistics
• Rates of change and varieties of adaptation