On my way home after a wonderful time at BICLCE-11 in Klagenfurt. Really enjoyed giving a talk with @alessandrobasile.bsky.social and all the constructive feedback. Wonderful scenery during the welcome (boat!) reception. Even got to see France play Paraguay. And, oh my, the catering 👌👌

🎉 That's a wrap for the #MultiLingYUFE Conference at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris! Over the past two days, I had the pleasure of welcoming colleagues from across Europe for stimulating discussions on language variation and change. 👇

📢 (Double) publication alert! Proud to share two new papers I co-authored.

Happy to share that the latest issue of English Language and Linguistics (CUP), which I co-edited, is now open access! The issue, “Cognitive Approaches to Variation and Change in the English Modal Domain”, explores cutting-edge research on how English modals vary and change. ⬇️

Just back in Paris after a few weeks in China for the first edition of the #Grammaticalization vs. #DiachronicConstructionGrammar workshop at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, followed by some lectures at Capital Normal University (Beijing). Many thanks to my hosts for the kind invitation!

📢 New paper alert! Our new paper with Steven Coats, Cameron Morin & Robert Fuchs introduces a brand-new corpus of #SingaporeEnglish podcasts (available open access). Check it out here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Honoured to have given a plenary lecture at the #SLE2025 conference in Bordeaux! I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena. 📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here: #linguistics

Societas Linguistica Europaea - 58th Annual Meeting26-29 August 2025, Université Bordeaux Montaigne

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😊 Happy authors, happy publisher! 🎉 Congratulations to our author Carmelo Alessandro Basile for winning the prestigious Eugenio Coseriu Award presented by the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) at their 58th Annual Meeting in Bordeaux. #SLE2025

In my latest research note, I assess the impact of an internet increasingly populated by AI-generated texts on linguistics and corpora. corpling.hypotheses.org/4690

Corpus linguistics in the LLM era – the changing nature of language data

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has brought both opportunities and challenges to the field of corpus linguistics. These AI systems generate vast amounts of language output that often app...

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📢 Proud to share the publication of this special issue in CogniTextes ✅️ First time for me as a guest editor, it was a pleasure to have @gdlinguist.bsky.social & Dylan Glynn by my side!