Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy 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. 000
Reposted by Alessandro BasileBenoît Leclercq @benoitleclercq.bsky.social · 06/07/2026On 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 👌👌 073
Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Many thanks to all speakers, chairs, and participants, for their contributions, and to my co-organisers, Astrid De Wit and Aliyah Morgenstern, for helping make this event possible. Here are a few snapshots from the conference👇 YUFE Alliance #linguistics #YUFE #languagevariationandchange 010
Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 11/06/2026With 17 talks covering a wide range of perspectives, datasets, languages, and methodologies, the conference provided a great opportunity to exchange ideas, discover new research, and strengthen existing and future collaborations. 👇 100
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. 👇 111
Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Both papers explore key questions in language change and the evolving relationship between #grammaticalization and #DiachronicConstructionGrammar. Abstracts below ⬇️ 000
Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 11/12/20252. Rescuing grammaticalization from construction hegemony: the evolution of the modal better (Folia Linguistica Historica) In collaboration with Debra Ziegeler → doi.org/10.1515/flin...doi.orgRescuing grammaticalization from construction hegemony: the evolution of the modal betterThe present paper examines the relationship between grammaticalization and constructionalization in the context of recent studies on Diachronic Construction Grammar. Building on the concept of “Event ... 110
Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 11/12/20251. Grammaticalization vs. Diachronic Construction Grammar (Studies in Language) In collaboration with Bernd Heine, Debra Ziegeler & Eric Mélac → doi.org/10.1075/sl.2...doi.orgGrammaticalization vs. Diachronic Construction Grammar | John BenjaminsAbstract In some work based on the framework of Diachronic Construction Grammar, a branch of Construction Grammar (e.g. Croft 2001; Goldberg 2006), it has been argued that phenomena traditionally clas... 100
Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 11/12/2025📢 (Double) publication alert! Proud to share two new papers I co-authored. 100
Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 05/12/2025www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgEnglish Language & Linguistics: Volume 29 - Cognitive approaches to variation and change in the English modal domain | Cambridge CoreCambridge Core - English Language & Linguistics - Volume 29 - Cognitive approaches to variation and change in the English modal domain 000
Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Happy 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. ⬇️cambridge.orgEnglish Language & Linguistics: Volume 29 - Cognitive approaches to variation and change in the English modal domain | Cambridge CoreCambridge Core - English Language & Linguistics - Volume 29 - Cognitive approaches to variation and change in the English modal domain 150
Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Just 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! 020
Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 17/09/2025youtu.be/3PcrTigbJ1I?...youtu.beSocietas Linguistica Europaea - 58th Annual Meeting26-29 August 2025, Université Bordeaux MontaigneYouTube video by Université Bordeaux Montaigne 000
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... 030
Alessandro Basile @alessandrobasile.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Honoured 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: #linguisticsyoutu.beSocietas Linguistica Europaea - 58th Annual Meeting26-29 August 2025, Université Bordeaux MontaigneYouTube video by Université Bordeaux Montaigne 151
Reposted by Alessandro BasileDe 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 1214
Reposted by Alessandro BasileGuillaume Desagulier @gdlinguist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024In my latest research note, I assess the impact of an internet increasingly populated by AI-generated texts on linguistics and corpora. corpling.hypotheses.org/4690corpling.hypotheses.orgCorpus linguistics in the LLM era – the changing nature of language dataThe 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... 02414
Reposted by Alessandro BasileBenoît 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! 2185