From 2025 onwards, ISLE offers two new prizes - the Teaching Innovation Prize and the Outreach Prize.
Submission due date for each is April 30, 2025.
For more information, see https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/isle-prizes
The next ISLE Forum (moderated by Martin Schweinberger) takes place on 19 December 2024, 10 am CET. Laurence Anthony and Peter Crosthwaite will give insights into English linguistics in Australia and Japan.
Zoom link: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/88340957303
We are seeking proposals from people interested in organising future ISLE Online Forum sessions. Propose a topic that would be of interest to ISLE members and suggest who would be the invited speakers (max. 3). If you would like to organise such a session, please submit a proposal via this Google form (open on an ongoing basis). Submitting a proposal does not obligate you to go ahead with the session at this stage; if your proposal is accepted, we will confirm this with you and find a mutually convenient date in 2025 for the event. Please note that the organiser (who would normally be the Chair of the session) and the speakers all take part on a voluntary basis.
For more information and to submit a proposal please go to the following URL:
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Normative Linguistics, Twenty-five Years on" with Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Morana Lukač & Linda Pillière (moderated by Yoko Iyeiri) is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-ttj95vEAVg
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "From the Core to the Periphery: The Value of the Marginal Aspects of Language" with Brian D. Joseph, Gunther Kaltenböck & Belén Méndez-Naya (moderated by María José López-Couso) is now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYXI7Iv4b9k
ISLE8 follows a series of conferences which started in 2008 (ISLE Inaugural Conference; Freiburg) and include ISLE2 (Boston, 2011), ISLE3 (Zurich, 2014), ISLE4 (Poznan, 2016, ISLE5 (London, 2018), ISLE6 (Joenssu, 2021) and ISLE7 (Brisbane, 2023).
ISLE8 will be hosted by the University of Santiago de Compostela from 1-4 September 2025.
The conference theme is English Linguistics on the Way: Expanding Horizons.
The conference is organized by the research groups Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization (VLCG) and SPERTUS.
More information (including call for papers) can be found on the conference website. Please note that all presenters need to be a member of ISLE.
New YouTube Video Available (Hundt, Nevalainen & Wallenberg on "Perspectives on Grammatical Change")
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Perspectives on Grammatical Change" with Marianne Hundt, Terttu Nevalainen and Joel Wallenberg (moderated by Claire Childs) is now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKozVZFAvHs
ISLE 8 (Santiago di Compostela, September 1-4, 2025), organized by the USC research units Variation Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization and SPERTUS, will take place at the Fontán Building, Cidade da Cultura de Galicia. The Call for Papers will be published in the coming weeks.