ISLE Summer School 2026

The ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English) Summer School 2026 will be held at Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) from 7 to 13 July 2026. In addition to the following six courses, four plenary lectures are scheduled.
For further details, see this page. (Link to Uppsala University website)

1. Historical sociopragmatics of Irish English
   Patricia Ronan (TU Dortmund)
2. Corpus linguistics and the evolution of style in English
   Dan McIntyre (Uppsala University) and Brian Walker (Queen’s University Belfast)
3. Genre variation and the study of change: Challenges and rewards
   Erik Smitterberg (Uppsala University)
4. Studying grammatical change with the Penn parsed corpora of historical English
   George Walkden (University of Konstanz)
5. Studying language variation and change in handwritten texts
   Peter J. Grund (Yale University)
6. Psycholinguistics and language change: Novel interdisciplinary insights
   Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich)

The four lectures are:

Plenary 1 (Monday): Patricia Ronan (TU-Dortmund). Topic TBA

Plenary 2 (Tuesday): Erik Smitterberg (Uppsala University). Social networks, language transmission, and what counts as Late Modern English

Plenary 3 (Wednesday): Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich). Topic TBA

Plenary 4 (Friday): Peter J. Grund (Yale University). Topic TBA