Met veel trots (en ongetwijfeld nostalgie) ga ik morgen naar mijn alma mater om een gastles te geven over computational #ConstructionGrammar @uantwerpen.be

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

This explains why there are so many great Italian physicists 😄

One of the great mysteries of #language is how it finds a balance between robust stability and endless flexibility. I believe this requires us to rethink #linguistic structures. In this article, I propose dynamic #tensegrity as a novel architectural metaphor aclanthology.org/2025.cxgsnlp...

Enjoying the view from our lab’s Midori farm, where we’re meeting for a day of intensive cross-disciplinary discussion csl.sony.fr/projects/mid...

My 3-year old son just sternly corrected me that Mickey wasn’t jumping on a macaron but on a “candy burger” #Creativity #LanguageAcquisition

Weeral een sterk geïnformeerd stuk van @apache.be

This is why we can’t have nice things

Must-read for any (university) teacher about the blind use of LLMs in education apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Very happy to announce the new Anthology for Computers and the Humanities! 🎉 Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social!

Linguists love their mirrors. Aspects (1965) meets A Theory of Aspects (2024). Congrats to Norbert Hornstein on the Bloomfield Prize

📰 New paper #ChronoGrapher: Event-Centric Knowledge Graph Construction via Informed Graph Traversal out! Our researcher #InèsBlin, released a new paper in collaboration with #IlariaTiddi, #AnnettetenTeije & @remivantrijp.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 👏 Congrats #airesearch

Working on some proofs on the train back home. It's a little article in which I share my thoughts about how we can "refactor" the architecture of #ConstructionGrammar to better fit the recent advances in usage-based approaches. I can't wait to see it published and hear your views

I just got rick-rolled by my 13 year old. I have nothing to teach her anymore

Very honoured to be the closing speaker at the Minerva workshop (Crossing boundaries, constructing bridges: grammar, cognition, interaction). I'll be talking about emergent level formation in #ConstructionGrammar Many thanks to @alexbergs.bsky.social and Bracha Nir for the wonderful organization!

Looking for a way to build an event-centric #KnowledgeGraph based on a generic KG? My colleague Inès Blin got you covered. Check out our #OpenAccess paper on ChronoGrapher doi.org/10.1177/2210...

"English speakers can't speak English" - hilarious yet perceptive sketch by @foilarmsandhog.bsky.social. From 2:08 onwards it perfectly illustrates the riddle of @adelegoldberg.bsky.social's book "Explain me this" www.youtube.com/watch?v=b58J...

I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.

Sad. A tremendous linguist has left us: “The Yale Department of Linguistics is saddened at the news that our longtime colleague Stephen R. Anderson has died.” ling.yale.edu/posts/2025-1...

Thrilled to announce the publication of my paper "A Modern Synthesis: The Fillmorean Construction and its Hidden Lineage" in Constructions! The article digs into the prehistory of #ConstructionGrammar and is based on the first chapter of my upcoming book constructions.journals.hhu.de/article/view...

Very insightful and interesting interview with Tristan Harris @thedailyshow.com by Jon Stewart www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d...

Super proud of this work and very grateful for all the amazing people who provided valuable feedback along the way @remivantrijp.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @cedricboeckx.bsky.social @inbalarnon.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️🙏

✨Vivien Law Essay Prize in the history of linguistic ideas✨ Deadline: 30th September 2025 If you are: a currently registered student or received your PhD/equivalent within the last five years (maternity leave excluded) See details and get your submissions ready!👇 www.henrysweet.org/vivien-law-p...

🎉 We are pleased to announce that @remivantrijp.bsky.social will succeed Kyoko Ohara & Jan-Ola Östman and join Mirjam Fried as editor of Constructional Approaches to Language: welcome on board! 🙌 📚 More info about the book series can be found here: www.benjamins.com/catalog/cal

Nice overlapping blend where the overlap is cru-cially strictly phonological

oh you must mean DOUCHE, the Department Of Unwarranted Control and the Hindrance of Effectiveness

JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics! Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying! Please repost & share widely!

www.lsadc.org/content.asp?... Linguistic Society of America’s Official Statement against English as the Official Language of the United States

Loved this book. As soon as my daughter’s English is proficient enough, I’m giving it to her

France can find 109 billion euros for AI, which will mostly benefit foreign investors, but not 15 million euros for child cancer research #priorities www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/bud...

I think Europe has a golden opportunity to double down on more funding for science

We don't always publish book reviews at #Constructions, but when we do, it's about a very special book: @alexwillich.bsky.social has taken a critical look at Thomas Hoffmann's #ConstructionGrammar textbook constructions.journals.hhu.de/article/view...

If you’re interested in my guide to different constructional approaches in practice, check out my paper in the Cambridge Handbook of #ConstructionGrammar www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Curious about the historical ties and continued mutual influence between the fields of Construction Grammar and Artificial Intelligence? Read our chapter "Construction Grammar and Artificial Intelligence" in the Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar! (with @katbeuls.bsky.social) #NLProc #CxG

I’m spending some inspiring days with the researchers working on the Hermes Programme hermes-programme.eu

Excited to see this new volume out. My eternal gratitude to editors Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou for making this happen! www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

As the French proverb goes: “l’arroseur arrosé” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Very good question. Answer is both: Fillmore considered constructions to be “emic” entities - a concept he borrowed from Kenneth Pike’s tagmemics 1/

Very cool study on language grounding. Read the whole thread for a summary

I do not see how we’re going to have productive academic discussions of "AI" until we stop accepting the marketing that lumps all machine learning methods & technologies into one amorphous thing called "AI"—so we get minimalist & maximalist responses that echo that marketing—we don’t have to do this

Cool choice to use the Old English form “wer”, which meant “man”

Ah. Writing. I thought I finished three new pages of my book today, only to end up with two paragraphs. “Kill your darlings” as they say

Thank you for spoiling us with your art. Rest in peace David Lynch

Semantic framing in action

2024 was the year I started to re-read books I’ve read a long time ago. Really illuminating experience, but at the cost of time less spent on new books. Happened already with music & video games, and a bit with movies. Am I petrifying mentally?

Seems like a fantastic exhibition about endangered languages in the US. Hope to see it travel closer by soon english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

Humans learn language from situated communicative interactions. And that makes all the difference! Find out why in our latest article in Computational Linguistics: doi.org/10.1162/coli... #CompLing #CxG #LLMs #NLProc

Out now in Computational Linguistics, volume 50, issue 4: "Humans Learn Language from Situated Communicative Interactions: What about Machines?"(w. @katbeuls.bsky.social) #NLProc #LLMs #CompLing #CxG #linguistics doi.org/10.1162/coli...

RIP William Labov. Giant in our field. May his legacy live on

Weighing in on the pre-registration issue, it's worth re-highlighting the pizza problem, which is summarised and linked from this nice blog. Good scientific theory is cyclical: data exploration->theory/model-building->hypothesis testing->exploration..... www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ho...