Coming 6-7 August
A Virtual Festival
Celebrating Caribbean Languages
Join us online from 6 to 7 August 2020 for a Virtual Festival Celebrating Caribbean languages. This exciting event will feature performances and presentations from among our membership.

The Festival will be live streamed at https://www.facebook.com/societyforcaribbeanlinguistics

Sign up to participate! 
Do you have a story, a poem, a saying, a song or a presentation on language?  We want to hear from you!  Submit your idea and presentation to
secretary@scl-online.net before 2 August 2020.

Click to view the draft Festival programme.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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What's
Happening

Publication Opportunity

For those SCL members who are interested in publishing the paper they had intended to present at the 2020 conference with the SCL, there are two possibilities:

(1) your paper could be published as a part of the Society’s Occasional Papers Series or

(2) your paper could be published as a chapter in a special themed volume based on a linguistics sub-area. 

The latter will appear in the Society’s “Studies in Caribbean Languages” series of the Language Science Press. These options are available only to members who have already submitted an abstract and have had it accepted.

Contact the Publications Officer <publications@scl-online.net> for more information about these opportunities.

Notices

Members are asked to note that in light of the COVID-19 situation, there will be no in-person events for the remainder of 2020.  Our next scheduled conference in 2022, our 50th anniversary, will be the next opportunity for us to meet as a Society.

Call for Video Submissions

We are producing a short video to introduce the SCL, for use on our website, social media networks, and any other promotion.  We want you to contribute a welcome video in your Caribbean language. Read more >

SCL Website Temporarily Closed

Our Website is temporarily closed while we undergo some renovations.    We expect that the site will be back up and running in August.  You will be notified you once the site goes live.  Our apologies for this inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

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About Us

The SCL is a scholarly linguistics Society dedicated to the study of language in the Caribbean and to the dissemination of both the theoretical and applied research of its members. The Society had its beginnings in the 1968 Creole Linguistics Conference at the Mona campus of The University of the West Indies in Jamaica, and was formally established in July 1972 at the St. Augustine campus of The U.W.I. in Trinidad & Tobago. The Society was founded with the goals of promoting the study of language with special reference to the Caribbean, and of involving interested persons from all parts of the world. The late Frederic Gomes Cassidy was elected the first SCL president, and the first official SCL Conference was held in 1976 at the University of Guyana. The research, interests and publications of SCL members have always addressed both theoretical and applied linguistics, with increasing attention being given to the role and development of language in Caribbean education.

The research concerns of SCL members include Caribbean languages of all origins and eras, including Amerindian languages from the pre-Columbian era, and languages of the colonial era including European, African, and Asian, and above all, Caribbean Creole languages, of which SCL members have been pioneers in their recognition and study. The SCL focuses on the languages and language situations of the territories of both the insular and continental Caribbean. These include, for example:

The Islands: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Curaçao, and the SSS islands), Puerto Rico, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, and the US Virgin Islands.The Coastlands: Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Suriname, USA, and Venezuela, and other territories with historical and current Caribbean connections.

Language communities studied also include populations of Caribbean origin around the world.