Both papers explore key questions in language change and the evolving relationship between #grammaticalization and #DiachronicConstructionGrammar. Abstracts below ⬇️
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Both papers explore key questions in language change and the evolving relationship between #grammaticalization and #DiachronicConstructionGrammar. Abstracts below ⬇️
2. Rescuing grammaticalization from construction hegemony: the evolution of the modal better (Folia Linguistica Historica) In collaboration with Debra Ziegeler → doi.org/10.1515/flin...
1. Grammaticalization vs. Diachronic Construction Grammar (Studies in Language) In collaboration with Bernd Heine, Debra Ziegeler & Eric Mélac → doi.org/10.1075/sl.2...
📢 (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
Photo of the author of the award-winning book "Modality in contact" holding a copy of the book in front of a table of De Gruyter Mouton books at the 2025 SLE Annual Meeting.
😊 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
📢 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!
