EURALEX Organization

EURALEX or EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR LEXICOGRAPHY was established at the 1983 Exeter Conference on Lexicography. The Constitution, originally drafted at the inaugural meeting of 12 September 1983, was agreed at General Meeting of 13 September 1986 and amended at General Meetings of 8 August 1992 and 3 September 1994. The current version of this constitution was amended at the General Meeting of September 2008.

EURALEX Constitution

You can read or download the current version of the Constitution on separate pages.

From the Constitution (Executive Board)

Article 14. The Association shall be governed by an Executive Board composed of up to nine elected members, including four principal Officers (President, Vice President, Secretary-Treasurer and Assistant Secretary-Treasurer), elected at each General Meeting from among its Members. At the end of his or her term of presidency, the President shall continue ex officio as a member of the Executive Board for a further two years. The Editor of the International Journal of Lexicography shall be an ex-officio member of the board. The organiser of the forthcoming congress will resign normal membership of the board and serve as an ex officio member.

Executive Board 2010-2012

Geoffrey Williams – president

UFR Lettres et Sciences Humaines,
Université de Bretagne Sud
Lorient, France
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Janet de Cesaris – vice-president

Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain

Lars Trap-Jensen – secretary treasurer

Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Pius ten Hacken – assistant secretary treasurer

Swansea University
College of Arts and Humanities,
Department of Translation and Digital Communication
Swansea, United Kingdom
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Paul Bogaards – ex officio

editor of the International Journal of Lexicography

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Universiteit Leiden
Leiden, the Netherlands
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Carla Marello – ex officio

past president

Facoltà di Lingue e letterature straniere
Università di Torino
Torino, Italy
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Ruth E Vatvedt Fjeld – ex officio

organiser of the forthcoming congress

Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier
Det humanistiske fakultet,
Universitetet i Oslo
Oslo, Norway
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Andrea Abel

Istituto di Comunicazione Specialistica e Plurilinguismo
Europäische Akademie Bozen – Accademia Europea di Bolzano
Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
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Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University
Xhosa Department, University of the Western Cape
TshwaneDJe HLT
Gent, Belgium
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Anne Dykstra

Fryske Akademy
Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

Simon Krek

Amebis, d.o.o., Kamnik
Institut Jožef Stefan, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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From the Constitution (Auditors)

Article 12.3. The General Meeting shall appoint up to two Auditors who are members of the association but not currently on the board to check the accounts for the current term of office. These auditors may give advice to the Secretary-Treasurer on principles for the bookkeeping, and at notice of at least one week they shall have access to the books and to all relevant vouchers. Their report shall be presented to the first subsequent ordinary General Meeting.

Euralex Auditor 2010-2012

Charles McGregor

Visiting Professor

Lomonosov Moscow State University