EURALEX or the 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 the General Meeting of 13 September 1986 and amended at the General Meetings of 8 August 1992, 3 September 1994, 18 July 2008, and 20 July 2018. The current version of this constitution was amended at the General Meeting of 15 July 2022.
EURALEX Resolutions
Resolution in 2016 on the status of lexicography
Resolution in 2022 against the war in Ukraine
EURALEX Constitution
From the Constitution (Board)
Article 14. The Association shall be governed by a Board composed of up to nine elected Members, including the four Principal Officers of the Executive Board (composed of the 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 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 any normal membership of the Board and serve as an ex-officio Member. The Board shall have the power to convoke, at its discretion, Standing and Ad Hoc Committees and to invite Members of the Association to serve in various capacities, such as that of Membership Secretary, Minutes Secretary, Editor of the Association’s Newsletter and similar functions.
Board 2024-2026
Iztok Kosem – President
Centre for Language Resources and Technologies, University of Ljubljana
Jožef Stefan Institute, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Kristina Štrkalj Despot – Vice-President
Institute of the Croatian Language and Lingustics
Zagreb, Croatia
Carole Tiberius – Secretary-Treasurer
Institute for the Dutch Language
Leiden, Netherlands
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Hindrik Sijens – Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
Fryske Akademy
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
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Kristina Koppel
Institute of the Estonian language
Tallinn, Estonia
Geraint Paul Rees
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Christian-Emil Smith Ore
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
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Tomasz Michta
University of Białystok
Białystok, Poland
Carolina Flinz
University of Milan
Milan, Italy
Robert Lew
ex officio – Editor of the International Journal of Lexicography
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of English
Poznań, Poland
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Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus
ex-officio – past President
Institut für Deutsche Sprache
Mannheim, Germany
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Philipp Stöckle
ex-officio – organiser of the forthcoming congress
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Vienna, Austria
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 Auditors 2024-2026
Tanara Zingano Kuhn
(Auditor)
University of Coimbra, Celga-Iltec Department
Coimbra, Portugal
Geoffrey Williams
(Assistant Auditor)
Université de Bretagne Sud
France
Euralex Presidents
- 1983-1986 Gabriele Stein (Lady Quirk), then at Universität Heidelberg, Germany
- 1986-1988 Noel E. Osselton, then at the University of Newcastle, Great Britain
- 1988-1990 Antonio Zampolli, then at Università di Pisa, Italy
- 1990-1992 Reinhard R. K. Hartmann, then at the University of Exeter, Great Britain
- 1992-1994 Sue Atkins, then at Oxford University Press, Great Britain
- 1994-1996 Frank Knowles, then at the University of Aston, Great Britain
- 1996-1998 Henri Béjoint, then at Université Lumière-Lyon, France
- 1998-2000 Ole Norling-Christensen, then at Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab, Denmark
- 2000-2002 Krista Varantola, then at Tampereen yliopisto, Finland
- 2002-2004 Thierry Fontenelle, then at Université de Liège, Belgium
- 2004-2006 Marie-Hélène Corréard, then at Xerox Research, France
- 2006-2008 Anna Braasch, then at Københavns Universitet, Denmark
- 2008-2010 Carla Marello, then at l’Università di Torino, Italy
- 2010-2012 Geoffrey Williams, then at l’Université de Bretagne-Sud, France
- 2012-2014 Janet DeCesaris, then at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- 2014-2016 Lars Trap-Jensen, then at Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab, Denmark
- 2016-2018 Andrea Abel, then at Institute for Applied Linguistics, Eurac Research, Italy
- 2018-2021 Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, then at Ghent University, Belgium & Department of African Languages, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- 2021-2022 Zoe Gavriilidou, then at Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
- 2022-2024 Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus, then at Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany
