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Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy to share our new paper, “Ways of explaining meaning change in grammaticalization”, co-authored with Bernd Heine, Debra Ziegeler, Eric Mélac, and Seongha Rhee, and published in Lingua. Available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Abstract below for a quick overview.

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Benoît Leclercq @benoitleclercq.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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 👌👌

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Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

🎉 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. 👇

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Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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. ⬇️

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English Language & Linguistics: Volume 29 - Cognitive approaches to variation and change in the English modal domain | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - English Language & Linguistics - Volume 29 - Cognitive approaches to variation and change in the English modal domain

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Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

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!

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Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

📢 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...

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Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

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

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

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De Gruyter Brill Linguistics @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

😊 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

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.

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Benoît Leclercq @benoitleclercq.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

📢 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!

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