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Xavier Bach

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Associate Professor in Morphology and its interface with Syntax, Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès Typologist, historical linguist, morphologist

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Bonjour Wim! J'aimerais aussi être ajouté, merci beaucoup!

03.03.2026 11:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Long format. Enquête sur une supercherie : le prof d’université s’est-il inventé un « Prix Nobel » ? Professeur de Lettres à l’Université Marie & Louis Pasteur de Besançon, le Montbéliardais Florent Montaclair est le lauréat 2016 de la Médaille d’or de philologie, une science qui a pour objet l’étude historique d’une langue par l’analyse critique des textes. Assimilée au Prix Nobel et à la Médaille Fields, cette récompense internationale n’a en réalité aucune existence institutionnelle. C’est un faux. La stratégie qui a été mise en place pour faire croire le contraire, et a abusé beaucoup de monde, y compris le milieu universitaire, est un singulier mélange de sophistication, d’approximation et de culot monstre.

Incroyable article pour une incroyable mystification.

16.02.2026 12:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Yes! We'd be delighted to see you in Toulouse!

14.02.2026 17:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The medieval room in Musée des Augustins, with fake columns suporting medieval capitels.

The medieval room in Musée des Augustins, with fake columns suporting medieval capitels.

A medieval sculpture showing an angel leading people out of hell

A medieval sculpture showing an angel leading people out of hell

The grand stairs at Musée des Augustins

The grand stairs at Musée des Augustins

An 18th century painting showing two philosophers

An 18th century painting showing two philosophers

In the recently reopened Musée des Augustins in Toulouse today. The medieval room is such a delight!

14.02.2026 17:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Transalpine Typology Meeting is coming to Munich this year (26–28 November)! We invite submissions for presentations on topics related to linguistic typology and comparative linguistics. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 April 2026. Spread the word! sites.google.com/unipv.it/tra...

10.02.2026 12:13 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? We argue that an understanding of the faculty of language requires substantial interdisciplinary cooperation. We suggest how current developments in linguistics can be profitably wedded to work in evo...

Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch 2002 is one of the most cited papers in linguistics. Hauser has since been found guilty of research misconduct. Chomsky told his racist, slave-trading, child-raping friend that he thought MeToo had gone too far.

Maybe it‘s time for better role models.

01.02.2026 19:04 👍 27 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Manuel des langues créoles à base française The handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of French Creole studies, from a both comparative and language-specific perspective. Covering structural and historical features of French-based Creole ...

After more than ten years of preparation, our Manual of French-based Creoles is finally available for download.
What better place to announce this publication than during a visit to Martinique?
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Fok zot kouri gadé-y !

23.01.2026 12:22 👍 26 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
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Just published "Negation in the worlds languages" (3 vols) edited by Matti Miestamo & Ljuba Veselinova with Héloïse Calame. #rcg #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

23.01.2026 07:24 👍 26 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 3
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#OTD 100 years ago, Luise Hercus (1926–2018) was born 🎉 She initially focused on Middle Indo-Aryan languages, but later turned to fieldwork, documenting a number of Australian Indigenous languages such as Paakantyi, Wirangu, and Diyari.

#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

16.01.2026 08:52 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Just published "A grammar of Hewramî" by Masoud Mohammadirad #cogl #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

13.01.2026 09:37 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Validation par le droit du fait que l'écriture inclusive est bien du français. Cette décision a été prise en 2023 (voir ci-dessous) et entérinée par le Conseil d’État récemment.
Bon, c'est juste du bon sens, l'usage du point médian en français peut difficilement être autre chose que du français.

06.01.2026 16:12 👍 55 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 1
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Ma langue natale - Documentaire en replay La France en Vrai - Normandie <p>Un road-movie à la rencontre de ceux&nbsp;qui s’efforcent de maintenir vivants les patois normands et leur patrimoine.</p>

Ma langue natale, a documentary about some of the last speakers of #normand
www.france.tv/france-3_nor...
#Oïl #normaund #GalloRomance

03.01.2026 13:37 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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To be or not to be: Exploring a unique word in the world’s languages Dr Luca Ciucci is among the editors of a groundbreaking work that could help us to understand how the world's languages handle "to be". Here, he explains his research.

📖 ‘To be or not to be?’ That’s just the beginning of a linguistic mystery

The linguist Dr Luca Ciucci is among the editors of a new 1,300-page work exploring how the world's languages handle ‘to be’. Here, he reveals more about his research 👇

@lingulist.de #linguistics 🧪

15.12.2025 06:41 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1
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A curated global dataset of social contact between diverse language communities

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

11.12.2025 19:34 👍 24 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
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Lobatar | Xavier Bach Dins la familha lop, i a lo lop segur, que servís a l'encòp de mot generic per l'espècia e de mòt per dire lo mascle, mes i a tanben la loba e lo pichon, lo lobat o lo lobet, segon los parlars. Pel…

🐺 L'occitan a una regularitat dins la formacion de d'unes mots. Atal per "far los pichons", mas sonque se siètz un mamifèr ! Emai pel lop doncas, que coneis son fais de derivats, çò explica Xavier Bach... 🧑🏫

03.12.2025 13:30 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

5-year (!) postdoc opportunity: Join our Edinburgh team and do fieldwork on the Burun languages!

Deadline for application: 17 December.

Position starts March 1st, 2025

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03.12.2025 10:44 👍 10 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

A special issue on Occitan literature in the 17th century, with a contribution with colleagues on early traces of dance music in Occitan for the violin, and so much more (Christmas carols in Toulouse, Gascon in Canada, polyphony in Provence...)

01.12.2025 15:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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De la marchandise au consulat : accès à une littératie vernaculaire... 1. Introduction Les archives et écrits de marchands sont rares dans la documentation conservée, particulièrement avant le xive siècle, où l’on commence à trouver de la correspondance commerciale. L...

New publication, open access:

De la marchandise au consulat : accès à une littératie vernaculaire à Montpellier au xiiie siècle
Xavier Bach et Pierre-Joan Bernard
doi.org/10.4000/156pz

#medievalsky #linguistics #Occitan #Montpellier

30.11.2025 11:47 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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This just in from #Cornwall on #Kernewek #linguistics

27.11.2025 20:01 👍 36 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 1

Who wants to be the new professor for general #linguistics in Cologne? 👀

ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/lingui...

26.11.2025 11:24 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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How number systems shape our thinking and what it means for learning, language and culture A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them.

theconversation.com/how-number-s...

12.11.2025 00:57 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

solidarity with all colleagues and students at Nottingham who are having their jobs and degrees destroyed by management. the relentless annihilation of language provision in UKHE is something that *every* academic should be calling out and pushing back against.

06.11.2025 14:42 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Discriminations : combattre la glottophobie - Éditions Lambert-Lucas Les discriminations fondées sur la langue sont largement ignorées alors (…)

Le livre de Philippe Blanchet sur la glottophobie est désormais disponible gratuitement sur internet. À lire pour vous faire une idée sur les discriminations liées aux langues et à nos manières de nous exprimer.
www.lambert-lucas.com/livre/discri...

28.10.2025 06:54 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1937 Can't sign in? Forgot your password?

Interesting Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B theme issue: "A solid base for scaling up: the structure of numeration systems". Edited by Andrea Bender, Jean-Charles Pelland, @simongreenhill.bsky.social, & @coollinguist.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

21.10.2025 11:56 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The base concept in number systems is realized differently across multiple representational modalities—frameworks that incorporate sensory channel, medium of expression and semantic structures into integrated semiotic systems. Because these three factors ...

My paper "Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities" (PhilTransB) addresses a whole class of questions around the role that semiotic modality, and specifically number words vs. number symbols, plays in the structure of numerical systems.

20.10.2025 15:22 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1

C'est déjà fait avec Adam Raine, non?

07.09.2025 14:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excited to see Gender Linguistics officially launched during LILG 2025 here at @hhu.de – and to share this moment with so many colleagues passionate about language and gender.

Looking forward to your submissions!

#linguistics

15.08.2025 04:57 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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In Turin to work on the unpublished morphological data collected for the Atlante linguistico italiano. The city is great, and the data wonderful! #RomanceLinguistics #ALI #Torino

16.07.2025 20:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This year's #cilfr has been a wonderful week: lots of colleagues, plenty of linguistics, real scientific discussion. A beautiful celebration for 100 years of #slr Plus Lecce is an absolutely beautiful city!

06.07.2025 16:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📖📢PARUTION "LE CARTULAIRE DES TRENCAVEL" PAR @htldv.bsky.social (ÉD.)
📚Le dernier ouvrage paru dans la collection des documents inédits sur l'histoire de France est disponible dès aujourd'hui.
➡️ Se procurer l'ouvrage : cths.fr/ed/edition.p...
➡️ En savoir plus sur nos éditions : cths.fr/ed/index.php

03.07.2025 06:59 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0