International Linguistics Olympiad
The individual contest consists of 5 problems, covering the main fields of theoretical, mathematical and applied linguistics – phonetics, morphology, semantics, syntax, sociolinguistics, etc.
However, unlike other olympiads, the translations are provided by the multilingual Problem Committee, a body of experts independent of the delegates' team leaders.
The best (though not the only) way to get rid of that second element, which doesn't directly relate to general linguistics, is to create tasks based on material from languages unfamiliar to the students.
[4]Following the publication, the then student Alfred Zhurinsky [ru] proposed to the mathematics professor Vladimir Uspensky the creation of a high-school olympiad using such problems.
Thus, in 1965, the first edition of the Moscow's Traditional Olympiad on Linguistics and Mathematics was held, with an Organizing Committee composed by Uspensky (president), Igor Miloslavsky,[5] Alexander Kibrik and Anna Polivanova [ru].
With the multiplication of initiatives, the organizers of the different olympiads decided to organize, in 2003, the First International Olympiad in Theoretical, Mathematical, and Applied Linguistics, with six participating countries: The first edition of IOL then was realized from September 6 to 12, 2003, in the mountain resort Borovetz, Bulgaria, chaired by Alexander Kibrik from Moscow State University (MSU) and with the participation of six countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Netherlands, and Russia.
[10] The five problems at the individual contest concerned Jacob Linzbach's "Transcendental algebra" writing system, Egyptian Arabic (Afroasiatic), Basque (Isolate), Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian), and French (Indo-European).
The Problem Committee was chaired by Elena Muravenko; in addition to Berdichevsky, Derzhanski, and Iomdin, it also included Ksenia Gilyarova and Maria Rubinstein.
[15] Organized by a Local Committee composed by Alexander Lubotsky, Michiel de Vaan, Alwin Kloekhorst, Jesca Zweijtzer and Saskia Tiethoff, it had the participation of 13 teams from 9 countries, Finland and Romania for their first time.
The five problems at the individual contest were in Braille, Movima (Isolate), Georgian (Kartvelian), Ndom (Trans-New Guinea), and correspondences between Turkish and Tatar (Turkic).
The five individual problems were in Micmac (Algonquian), Old Norse (North Germanic) poetry (specifically, drottkvætt), Drehu and Cemuhî correspondences (Oceanic), Copainalá Zoque (Mixe-Zoquean), and Inuktitut (Eskimo-Aleut).
The subject matter of the five individual problems covered: numerals in the Sulka language (Isolate), Maninka and Bamana (Mande) languages in the N'Ko and Latin scripts, traditional Burmese (Sino-Tibetan) names and their relation with dates of birth, stress position in Old Indic (Indo-Aryan) and the relation between grammar and morphology in classical Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan).
The individual contest consisted of five problems covering: relations between various verb forms in Budukh (Northeast Caucasian), the Drehu (Oceanic) counting system, Blissymbolics, mRNA coding, and the connection between Sursilvan and Engadine dialects in Romansh (Western Romance).
Chaired by Lori Levin, it received 27 teams from 19 countries, including Brazil, Canada, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam for the first time.
The problems of the individual contest required reasoning about Faroese (Germanic) orthography, Menominee (Algic) morphology, Vai (Mande) syntax, Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan) semantics and the structure of the barcode language EAN-13.
The five problems at the individual contest were about Yidiny (Pama-Nyungan) morphology, Tundra Yukaghir (Yukhagir) semantics, Pirahã (Mura) phonology, Muna (Austronesian) syntax, and telepathy based on English.
The team problem involved translating Martin Seymour-Smith's list of the 100 most influential books from Georgian (Kartvelian) written in the 9th century Nuskhuri script.
The five problems at the individual contest were about Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan) and Arammba (South-Central Papuan) numbers, morphology in the Besleney dialect of Kabardian (Abkhaz-Adyghe), Soundex, Wambaya (West Barkly) syntax and the rules of Somali (Afroasiatic) poetry.
The team problem involved using extracts from a monolingual Northern Sotho (Bantu) dictionary to build a grammar and lexicon of the language.
The five problems at the individual contest were about spatial deictics in Aralle-Tabulahan (Austronesian), Luwian hieroglyphic script (Indo-European), Kunuz Nubian (Eastern Sudanic) morphosyntax, Iatmül (Sepik) semantics and Jaqaru (Aymaran) morphology.
The five problems at the individual content were about Berom (Plateau) numbers, Abui (Timor-Alor-Pantar) possessives and semantics, Kimbundu (Bantu) morphosyntax, Jru' (Austroasiatic) written in the Khom script and Madak (Meso-Melanesian) morphophonology.
The five problems at the individual contest concerned Creek (Muskogean) stress, Hakhun (Sal) morphosyntax, Terêna (Arawakan) phonology, counting in Mountain Arapesh (Torricelli) and kinship in Akan (Atlantic-Congo).
[29] Chaired by Minkyu Kim and Yoojung Chae, it received 53 teams from 35 countries, with Hong Kong, Uzbekistan and Colombia competing for the first time.
Due to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic, the International Board of the IOL decided to postpone the event to July 19 to 23, 2021, on which it was successfully held.
The five problems at the individual contest concerned Ekari (Paniai Lakes) numerals, Zuni (Isolate) semantics with special focus on food, Kilivila (Oceanic) morphosyntax, Agbirigba (a cant language) and its derivation from the Ogbakiri dialect of Ikwerre (Atlantic-Congo), and Rikbaktsa (Macro-Jê) morphology.
The team problem presented extracts from Chester S. Street's dictionary of Murrin-patha, an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by over 2,000 people in the Northern Territory.
[36] The different editions of IOL can be summarized on the following table: Boris Turovsky Eddin Najetović Maria Skhapa Ivan Dobrev Alexander Piperski Ralitsa Markova Todor Chervenkov Tsvetomila Mihaylova Tymon Słoczyński Xenia Kuzmina Alexei Nazarov Margus Niitsoo Natalja Hartsenko Nikita Medyankin Sophia Oskolskaya Tsvetomila Mihaylova Alexander Piperski Ivaylo Grozdev Ivaylo Dimitrov Pavel Sofroniev Eleonora Glazova Mihail Minkov Daniil Zorin Sergey Malyshev Alexander Daskalov Nikita Medyankin Diana Aitai Paweł Świątkowski Łukasz Cegieła Mihail Minkov Arseniy Vetushko-Kalevich Sander Pajusalu Teele Vaalma Angel Naydenov Yordan Mehandzhiyski Elizaveta Rebrova Maria Kholodilova Hanzhi Zhu Milan Abel Lopuhaa Maciej Janicki Morris Alper Dmitry Perevozchikov Łukasz Cegieła Andrey Nikulin Marcin Filar Joon Kyu Kang Radosław Burny Diana Sofronieva Jeffrey Lim Karol Konaszyński Yordan Mehandzhiyski Rebecca Jacobs Tatyana Polevaya Georgi Rangelov Łukasz Cegieła Andrey Nikulin Yordan Mehandzhiyski Arturs Semenyuks Irene Tamm Łukasz Kalinowski Witold Małecki Aakanksha Sarda Rebecca Jacobs Szymon Musioł Elena Volkova Laura Adamson Alan Huang Ben Caller Tomasz Dobrzycki John Berman Jun Yeop Lee Sergei Bernstein Hye Jin Ryu Andrey Nikulin Ben Sklaroff Tian-Yi Damien Jiang Daria Vasilyeva Allen Yuan Aleksejs Peguševs Łukasz Kalinowski Krzysztof Pawlak Daniel Rucki Maciej Dulęba Miroslav Manolov Alexander Iriza Alan Chang Vitaly Pavlenko Artūrs Semeņuks Mona Teppor Jakob Park Diana Glazova Szymon Kanonowicz Roman Stasiński Ellen Sinot Younus Porteous Ana Pavlović Song Jeeun Eva-Lotta Käsper Daria Vasilyeva Aleksey Kozlov Allen Yuan Jekaterina Malina Anton Sokolov Alexander Wade Victor Valov Duligur Ibeling Paul Lau Elena Rykunova Artūrs Semeņuks Hyun Park Rok Kaufman Vadim Tukh Daniel Mitropolsky Nik Moore Daniel Rucki Aaron Klein Dimitar Hristov Mihhail Afanasjev Ralf Ahi Alexander Wade Vadim Tukh Anderson Wang Konrad Myszkowski Jonathan Hongsoon Kim Marin Ivanov Kristian Kostadinov Allan Sadun Eva-Lotta Käsper Tom White Daniel Rucki Aaron Klein Max Allmendinger Ilya Pogodaev Ivan Tadeu Ferreira Antunes Filho Rok Kaufman Hong Bum Choi Ji Wook Kim Sagar Sarda Erik Andersen Magdalena Dakeva Ants-Oskar Mäesalu Omri Faraggi Anna Sarukhanova Melanie Duncan Baichuan Li Anita Mudzhumdar Estere Šeinkmane Yash Sinha Amelia Shaye Lim Jin Edyta Gajdzik Mette-Triin Purde Erik Tamre Anne Ng Yin-Yi Anton Sokolov Matyas Medek Gabriel Alves da Silva Diniz Michał Hadryś Iva Gumnishka Estere Šeinkmane Yash Sinha Polina Pleshak Kuzma Smirnov Martyna Siejba Aaron Klein Airika Arrik Boryana Hadzhiyska Ivan Zverev Huisu Yun Jeffrey Ling Yulia Markova Vesko Milev Marin Ivanov Ivan Lyutskanov Jacob Karlsson Lagerros Tom McCoy Martyna Judd Ants-Oskar Mäesalu Milena Velikova Jeong Yeon Choi Ekaterina Novikova Maciej Kucharski Daniel Lovsted Maximilian Schindler Jiyun Sung Sarah Tham Jan Bajer Darryl Wu Daniel Lovsted Elysia Warner Anastasiia Dmitrieva Danila Shumskiy Dan Mirea Catherine Wu Chen Tianlu Yan Huang Alexander Babiak Zhang Ming Lara Jerman Chen Run Keisuke Yamada Stanisław Wilczyński Felicia Lane Deven Lahoti Xue Dailin Elena Chaparova Maciej Kocot Matyáš Medek Rajan Dalal Yoojin Jang Dmitrii Zelenskii Annika Kluge Jonathan Johansen Kevin Li Gleb Nikolaev James Bloxham James Abel Yulia Markova Šonita Koroļova Eliška Freibergerová Yang Heran Vitālijs Gusevs Glenn Ee Je Hong Simon Huang Maria Aristova Samuel Ahmed James Bloxham Danail Penev Kevin Yang Liam McKnight Ada Melentyeva Ying Ming Poh Conor Stuart-Roe Valentin Dimov Daniil Vedeneev Stanisław Frejlak Jin Xu Julian Gau Dan Mircea Mirea Katarzyna Kowalska Ralitza Dardjonova Anthony Bracey Ivan Oleksiyuk Teodora-Elena Solovan Jan Petr Ruowang Zhang Tina Vladimirova Nilai Sarda Piotr Gajdzica Zdravko Ivanov Anastasiia Alokhina Pim Spelier Naomi Solomons Anna Tatarenko Jaeyeong Yang Aalok Sathe Anthony Bruce Ma Diana Murzagaliyeva Luke Gardiner Nadezhda Dimitrova Radina Dobreva Emma 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