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.
The Richard M. Hogg Prize deadline has been extended to 30th June, 2024. See https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/richard-m-hogg-prize
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "The Future of Corpus Linguistics" with Michaela Mahlberg, Laurence Anthony and Mikko Laitinen (moderated by Martin Schweinberger) is now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t2BW1TzpUQ
The recording of the ISLE Forum on "Publishing is Key - But Where and How?" (moderated by Bernd Kortmann) is now available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsNuncR3xY