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 🎁🎄

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

I love arriving at work and having a new book waiting for me. Just in time for the holiday break! #ConstructionGrammar

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...

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”

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

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

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!

New Cambridge Element, Creative Construction Grammar, by Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner, out now! Read Open Access at https://cup.org/4pkd1np #languageandlinguistics #LangSky

Check out this exiting issue with papers from various flavors of Construction Grammar describing English constructions! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

🌱⏭️ 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

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-...

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

It warms my linguistics heart to see the current generation of scientists engaging with the history of linguistic thought. More please 🙏

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...

The chip wars might have begun between Google and Nvidia thecuriousbrain.com?p=130242

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.“👇🧪

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...

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!

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-...

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