A pre-conference workshop was held prior to the 36th ICAME conference at Trier University on May 27, 2015.

Linguistic innovations in EFL and ESL: rethinking the linguistic creativity of non-native English speakers / Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte -- "This hair-style called as 'duck tail'" The intrusive as-construction in South Asian varieties of English and Learner Englishes / Christopher Koch, Claudia Lange and Sven Leuckert -- Detecting innovations in a parsed corpus of learner English / Gerold Schneider and Gaëtanelle Gilquin -- The innovative progressive aspect of Black South African English: The role of language proficiency and normative processes / Bertus van Rooy and Haidee Kruger -- Towards a process-oriented approach to comparing EFL and ESL varieties: A corpus-study of lexical innovations / Marcus Callies -- In case of innovation: Academic phraseology in the Three Circles / Alison Edwards and Rutger-Jan Lange -- Innovative conversions in South-East Asian Englishes: Reassessing ESL status / Stephanie Horch -- The fate of linguistic innovations: Jersey English and French learner English compared / Anna Rosen - It's always different when you look something from the inside: -- Linguistic innovation in a corpus of ELF Skype conversations / Marie-Louise Brunner, Stefan Diemer and Selina Schmidt.