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Remi van Trijp

@remivantrijp.bsky.social
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Research Leader at csl.sony.fr. My work blends linguistics, artificial intelligence, and complex systems science to understand how humans create and share meaning through language and narrative. Read more at remivantrijp.com

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
100 years of the "morph(eme)" – Bloomfield's foundational article came out in September 1926. dlc.hypotheses.org/4485
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Going to an IMAX theatre costs about an arm these days, but seeing my daughter’s eyes glow up was worth it. She studies Greek so her opinion mattered more than that of any online critic, and she filled me in on all the myths that I have mostly forgotten already. A movie to see on the big screen!
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A whole semantics/philosophy seminar can be dedicated to the phrase “While the US played soccer, Belgium played football” 😁
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Any model of cultural transmission that implies a sender and a receiver vastly underestimates the role of active (re)construction. Great to see more articles like this making it into print
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alexbergs.bsky.social @alexbergs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New International Construction Grammar Association (ICGA)! icgaonline.wpcomstaging.com announced at ICCG14 thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social Sign up forms.gle/gXYDKC6xavkU... @alexbergs.bsky.social H Boas M Fried, @stefanhartmann.bsky.social Th Hoffmann F Masini B Nir @remivantrijp.bsky.social
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International Construction Grammar Association
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I loved using that construction from time to time. It still works if you write consistently in your own unique voice (though beware: many reviewers hate it if you do so… they prefer bland academic text)
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Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Slightly embarrassing that I need to ask but still: does anyone have access to the electronic supplementary information for this old article of mine? DM me :) royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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How do communication systems emerge?
Abstract. Communication involves a pair of behaviours—a signal and a response—that are functionally interdependent. Consequently, the emergence of communic
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
How "Cognitive Linguistics" started as an organized enterprise: dlc.hypotheses.org/4252
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Witnessing the birth of “Cognitive Linguistics” 37 years ago
In early April 1989, the international “Cognitive Linguistics” movement was born. Probably not everyone knows that it has a precise birthday, so let me recount the event here from my own perspective –...
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
When you’re in your 40s, it’s rare to come across a story that still manages to surprise you. Stories are well executed but you’ve seen them before. So what a joy to discover Frieren, an anime that so subtly plays with expectations youtu.be/Iwr1aLEDpe4?...
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End | OFFICIAL TRAILER
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Feeling likewise. Some useful constructions feel dirty and forbidden now
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What happens if you forget that science is a collective human activity, and that you need to foster talent to continue that activity when you’re gone www.science.org/content/arti...
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Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student
“It can competently perform a lot of the work I need immediately,” this professor writes
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Constructions = grammar in action: social, rhetorical, meaningful. Excited for this conference, hosted by none other than @randyallenharris.bsky.social!
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Interview met Luc Steels, Ann Dooms en mij over de rol van universiteiten in de ontwikkeling van AI @anndooms.bsky.social vubtomorrow.be/nl/vooraanst...
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VUB-experts waarschuwen: AI-ontwikkeling dreigt te eenzijdig te worden
VUB-experts Ann Dooms en Luc Steels waarschuwen: AI wordt te sterk gestuurd door grote techbedrijven. Universiteiten blijven cruciaal voor nieuwe doorbraken.
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Backpropagation and gradient descent also have obvious limitations, and these very limitations made them impractical in those decades. Specifically they require data and compute that were not available. 1960s-1970s academia/industry were quite pragmatic actually
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
How do scientific ideas in #AI actually evolve? Join me on March 19 in Paris. Details in the link below tinyurl.com/2n3r9vb8
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Phylo-Epistemic Networks for Understanding the Science of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a linear story of breakthroughs and progress. This talk proposes a different perspective: AI research evolves as a network of interacting ideas, communiti...
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The “how it started vs. how it’s going” memes practically write themselves
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
New book out in the CAL Series: "The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: A diachronic constructional approach" by Fangqiong Zhan doi.org/10.1075/cal.41 #ConstructionGrammar
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
An OpenClaw agent makes a pull request to matplotlib. Mainter rejects PR. The OpenClaw agent authors a blog post accusing the maintainer of discrimination and gatekeeping. Maintainer responds theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The score is still Q to 12!
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
“For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop” www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
Peer review has met its match.
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Excited to share that our book "History of Ideas in the Science of AI" (co-authored with Luc Steels and Ann Dooms) is now freely available as #OpenAccess! #OpenScience, #AIResearch, #HistoryOfAI doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
History of Ideas in the Science of AI
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
First time I did a genuine book signing session. Feels great!
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is one of the reasons why I doubling down on writing in a more personal, narrative style, even though I’m catching a lot of flak for it from reviewers. The original reason was that I didn’t want to get bored by my own texts when revising
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
David Lightfoot once quipped: “Subjacency has many virtues, but...it could not have increased the chances of having fruitful sex.” But if you see how many people are swayed by LLMs, it seems that smoothtalkers do have an advantage www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Leading AI expert delays timeline for its possible destruction of humanity
Former OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo says progress to AGI is ‘somewhat slower’ than first predicted
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Sounds like an interesting and important project. I would have applied if I were twenty years younger
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
So happy to see this book published - a great collaboration with Luc Steels and Ann Dooms. Open Access version is coming soon, but if you happen to be in Brussels this Thursday, you're welcome to join us for the book's official launch: lnkd.in/e_envZx9 #ArtificialIntelligence #HistoryOfScience
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Outside in the cold pre-frying fries for tonight (so the smell doesn’t enter the house). You can take the man out of Belgium, but you can’t take Belgium out of the man 🇧🇪🍟 Merry Christmas to all of you 🎁🎄
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Very interesting. But rather than calling it “the” science of falling in love, be clear that it’s about brain correlates. There’s undoubtedly much more to the topic than what our brains are doing
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I love arriving at work and having a new book waiting for me. Just in time for the holiday break! #ConstructionGrammar
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Thierry Poibeau @tpoibeau.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
New Publication: "Understanding Conversational AI: Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Large Language Models" (270 pages, Ubiquity Press, open access). Feel free to read it and share it widely! www.ubiquitypress.com/books/m/10.5...
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Understanding Conversational AI | Ubiquity Press
<p><i><b>What do large language models really know—and what does it mean to live alongside them?</b></i></p><p>This book offers a critical and interdisciplinary exploration of large language models (L...
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Never mind speech recognition. As a parent (and linguist), I often find myself thinking “now that’s a phrase I would have never imagined ever saying”
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Steffen Höder @steffenhoeder.de · 10/12/2025
It's been out for a while, but in case you missed it: Hans Boas and I have edited another "Constructions in Contact" volume in the Constructional Approaces to Language series (@johnbenjamins.bsky.social). benjamins.com/catalog/cal.40 #DCxG #CxG
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Constructions in Contact 3
Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. This book presents new research on the constructionist modelling of language contact phenomen...
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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a man and a woman are sitting next to each other in an elevator with a zebra print wall behind them .
ALT: a man and a woman are sitting next to each other in an elevator with a zebra print wall behind them .
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Twenty years ago, starting as an assistant researcher, Luc Steels gave me my first-ever job: write a history of ideas of our research. I only now came around to finishing that paper. More soon!
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 06/12/2025
New Cambridge Element, Creative Construction Grammar, by Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner, out now! Read Open Access at cup.org/4pkd1np #languageandlinguistics #LangSky
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Barthe Bloom @barthebloom.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Check out this exiting issue with papers from various flavors of Construction Grammar describing English constructions! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
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Special Issue: Describing English Constructions; Issue Editors: Barthe Bloom and Thomas Herbst
Volume 73, issue 3 of the journal Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik was published in 2025.
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Sony CSL - Paris @sonycsl-paris.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🌱⏭️ Symposium 'Le maraîchage sur petite surface' 15 janv. 2026 – Saint-Denis Une journée de rencontres entre #maraîchers, #chercheurs et acteurs de la transition #agroécologique Conférences, retours d’expérience 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇨🇦 & visite de ferme Programme 👉 sonycslparis.github.io/FrenchMethod/ sur inscription
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I believe #ConstructionGrammar has outgrown some of its founding metaphors (slot-fillers; inheritance networks). In this #OpenAccess paper I propose two frame shifts in constructional thought: doi.org/10.1515/zaa-...
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Moving Past Slot-Fillers: Balancing English Argument Structure with Fluid Construction Grammar
Constructional approaches view argument structure constructions as grammatical templates with open slots to be filled by verbs and their arguments, organized in an inheritance network. This paper argu...
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Over the last 5 years, I proposed more and more retro-definitions of traditional terms. But why am I doing this? Are these definitions driven by their "usefulness"? This new blogpost gives an answer. dlc.hypotheses.org/3975
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How useful are retro-definitions for (typological) linguistics? (Maybe not very.)
Like all sciences, linguistics needs technical terms, and we generally treat the grammatical terms that we inherited from our ancestors (such as syllable, affix, compound, dative, imperative, subordin...
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It warms my linguistics heart to see the current generation of scientists engaging with the history of linguistic thought. More please 🙏
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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Kim Droste @kimdro.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
My first ever paper has just been published in English Language and Linguistics @universitypress.cambridge.org! 🥳🥹 If you’re interested in Construction Morphology, I’d be thrilled if you gave it a read! I’d love your feedback! doi.org/10.1017/S136...
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Constructing a hierarchical network of prefixal up from a Construction Morphology perspective | English Language &amp; Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Constructing a hierarchical network of prefixal up from a Construction Morphology perspective
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The chip wars might have begun between Google and Nvidia thecuriousbrain.com?p=130242
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Buy! Buy! Sell! Sell!
What could possibly go wrong? via
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Testing 191 proposed linguistic universals with methods that account for genealogical descent & geographical proximity: “despite vast design space of possible grammars, languages don't evolve entirely at random. Shared cognitive/communicative pressures repeatedly push towards similar solutions.“👇🧪
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Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses - Nature Human Behaviour
Despite their great diversity, human languages are shaped by recurring grammatical universals. Verkerk et al. show that about one-third of the proposed universals hold cross-linguistically through ana...
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T Hoffmann @linguistur.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Coming soon - Turner & Hoffmann on Creative Construction Grammar. In this, we argue that the domain-general process of Conceptual Blending is the cognitive operation that combines constructions. BTW this will be published open access! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Just finished reviewing @grambelli.bsky.social's book (available soon): a clear and engaging synthesis of the major strands of work on compositionality, analogy, and usage, while pushing #ConstructionGrammar toward a more explicit engagement with processing and computation. Highly recommended!
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Thanks to all the CLIPS researchers at @uantwerpen.be for their warm welcome and great feedback yesterday. Always a pleasure and honor to be back at my alma mater www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...
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Events | Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Sociolinguistics | University of Antwerp
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Met veel trots (en ongetwijfeld nostalgie) ga ik morgen naar mijn alma mater om een gastles te geven over computational #ConstructionGrammar @uantwerpen.be
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The astronomical investments currently poured into #LLM development is a rehash of the Post-Bloomfieldian fallacy that led to the downfall of American structuralism in the 1950/. #AI doesn’t need more compute, it needs more science
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This explains why there are so many great Italian physicists 😄
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