Pleased to share that I’ve received a (small) research grant for my project on 'Modality and politeness'. 😊 It will support a research stay in Edinburgh and collaboration with Graeme Trousdale—very glad for the chance to spend some focused time on this abroad 🌍

📢 New special issue: "Ecolinguistic and Embodied Approaches to Cognitive Linguistics" (guest ed. Rémi Digonnet & Adeline Terry) Many thanks to all contributors 👏 Happy reading! 📚 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.4000/15y18 #linguistics #cognition #language #research #OpenAccess

📢 Inscriptions pour AFLiCo10 (22-24 juin 2026) ouvertes ! Programme riche et varié & moments conviviaux de qualité ✨ *Tarif early bird jusqu’au 6 Mai* — Registration for AFLiCo10 (22-24 June 2026) open! Rich program & great social events ✨ *early bird rate until May 6* 👉 aflico10.sciencesconf.org

Opportunity for a PhD candidate in English linguistics. Please repost. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

⏳️Only a month left to submit your paper to our special issue on "Isomorphism and optionality in the linguistic system". Get your abstracts ready and share the information in your networks 📩

Publishing a book is one thing. Seeing it resonate is another. Our 2025 book 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 (CUP), co-authored with Cameron Morin, has just been reviewed by Pedro Ivorra-Ordines. Here’s how the review concludes 👇😊 (Full review: doi.org/10.1017/S002...)

📣 "Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use" (CUP, 2024) now in Paperback! The book is Open Access & can be downloaded for free from CUP's website. But if you prefer physical copies, this might interest you as it is 4x cheaper than the Hardback format! Here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

🔐 My paper "Semantics and pragmatics in Construction Grammar” is now Open Access! It challenges the blurred lines between semantics and pragmatics in CxG, advocating for clearer distinctions to enhance our understanding of linguistic constructions. 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1075/bjl....

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📣 *Call for papers* With Cameron Morin, we're guest-editing a special issue on "Isomorphism & Optionality in the Linguistic System". To appear open access in 'Language and Cognition'. Details in the CFP ⬇️ — please share! #CallForPapers #Linguistics #LanguageAndCognition

📢 Invited Talk — Dec 12th, 10:00 @ U. Sorbonne Nouvelle “Modality on the move or on the run?” On how English modals - esp. 'may' and 'might' - are changing in form/function, with a focus on pragmatic shifts (mitigation, face-management). Remote link on request.

📢 New special issue: "Of Time and Space" (guest ed. Maarten Lemmens) This issue explores how we perceive and express space, motion, and time through innovative linguistic and cognitive approaches. 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.4000/158rw #linguistics #cognition #language #research #OpenAccess

🎉 My paper “The post-modal grammaticalisation of concessive may and might” is now Open Access! The paper explores how English 'may' and 'might' have evolved in concessive constructions and what this reveals about the dynamics of grammaticalisation and language change. doi.org/10.1075/cf.2...

📅 The deadline to submit abstracts has been entended to November 23rd! 📅 La date limite de soumission des résumés est prolongée jusqu'au 23 novembre !

📣 Just out! “The principle of no equivalence: an agent-based model,” co-authored with Cameron Morin & Dirk Pijpops in Cognitive Linguistics! We model how synonymy avoidance can emerge from simple communicative principles in agent-based simulations. Link: doi.org/10.1515/cog-...

📣 Appel à contributions - Varia [Call for paper - Regular Issue] Travaux en linguistique cognitive-fonctionelle [Papers in cognitive-functional linguistics] Articles en 🇫🇷 ou 🇬🇧, max. 10 000 mots. 📅 Deadline : 31 jan. 2026 📧 [email protected] 🔗 journals.openedition.org/cognitextes

Vous êtes doctorant.e et intéressé.e par la linguistique cognitive ? Vous souhaitez échanger et monter des projets avec d'autres doctorants ? Rejoignez la communauté de doctorants de l'AFLiCo ! Si vous êtes intéressé.e, vous pouvez répondre à ce questionnaire : enquete.univ-lyon3.fr/index.php/18...

Books: Advanced English Grammar: Depraetere and Langford (2025)

Just leaving Bordeaux under heavy rain. But #SLE2025 was a huge highlight for me this year. Scientifically so rich, we couldn't have hoped for a better workshop. On a personnal level, I also met most kind and inspiring individuals that sure made the last 4 days very special. Thanks!

Please consider following Language and Society Scotland, a new network for scholars, practitioners, writers, activists and other stakeholders working on issues broadly related to the study of language and society in Scotland. On Bluesky: @langsocscot.bsky.social‬

Full house in Bordeaux, at #SLE1025, for the round table on "How to do linguistics with AI; how to do AI with linguistics". With panelists @emilymbender.bsky.social, @clairelarsonneur.bsky.social, Christian Ludwig and @benoitleblanc.bsky.social.

Off to #SLE2025! Cameron Morin and I will have the pleasure to chair our workshop on “Isomorphism and optionality in language” 😃 We'll be giving an introduction at 10:30 in H113 tomorrow morning. (‘Workshop 9' Full schedule: societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/sche...

"The synthesis that the authors have managed to compile is very impressive. It is a monumental task to have to make a selection of the most relevant concepts in cognitive CxG. Still, there is an abundance of examples, which really contributes to the clarity of the explanations given"

📢 Publication alert! 🤝 First collaboration with Graeme Trousdale, and it was a real treat! 🔓 Published *open access* in "English Language and Linguistics": doi.org/10.1017/S136... 📚 Part of a special issue edited by Alessandro Basile, Agnès Celle, and Cameron Morin: go check it out!

📢 10th international conference of the French Cognitive Linguistics Association - 𝗔𝗙𝗟𝗶𝗖𝗼𝟭𝟬 📍𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀 (campus Condorcet) 📆 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟮𝗻𝗱-𝟮𝟰𝘁𝗵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 The theme of the conference will be 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. Submit your abstract before October, 31st. More information here: aflico10.sciencesconf.org

CogniTextes (journal of AFLiCo, @aflico.bsky.social, the French Association for Cognitive Linguistics) is now on Bluesky! We’re here to share updates about our journal and highlights from our authors' research in cognitive linguistics. Follow us here—and on LinkedIn—for news, publications, and more.

AFLiCo (the French Association for Cognitive Linguistics) is now on Bluesky! We’re here to share updates about AFLiCo, our journal @cognitextes.bsky.social , and highlights from our members' research in cognitive linguistics. Follow us here—and on LinkedIn—for news, publications, and more.

If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.

⏳️Only a week left to download the PDF of our book for free. 🔄 Spread the word!

📙 'The Meaning of Constructions' is out now! A short book on how meaning works in Construction Grammar - covering semantic, pragmatic & social dimensions. 🔓 Open access for two weeks. Download from: doi.org/10.1017/9781... 🔁 Feel free to share!

🌞 Voilà une excellente journée pour célébrer les 20 ans de l'AFLiCo (Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive) ! 📍Sur le campus Pont de Bois de l'Université de Lille, lieu symbolique de la création de l'association qui en demeure le siège. Co-organisation avec son fondateur, Maarten Lemmens 😊

And 14 of those papers will feature in our workshop on 'isomorphism and optionality in language' (with Cameron Morin) 🥳

👇 Submission deadline extended to April 6th! Get you abstracts ready 🤓

🗣 Cet après-midi, sur invitation de @gdlinguist.bsky.social, j'ai le plaisir de présenter mon livre 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒 (2024, CUP) dans le cadre du séminaire "Le corps du texte" (CLIMAS, Université Bordeaux Montaigne). 🤓

You still have time to submit your abstract to our workshop! 👇

🔜 JE AFLiCo - "20 ans de Linguistique Cognitive en France" 🗓 4 avril, à Lille 📌 2 plénières (K. Feyaerts & A. Terry), table ronde (avec J-R Lapaire, M. Lesuisse, P. Monneret, & S. Tabacaru ), & brèves doctorales. 📝 Inscription obligatoire, avant le 21 mars, ici : 20ansaflico.sciencesconf.org?lang=fr

✨LLcD workshop - "Experimental Approaches to Construction Grammar" With Mégane Lesuisse, our workshop proposal for LLcD 2025 has just been accepted! 📢 Submit your abstracts before March 30th. (Submission details: llcd2025.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...) 📜 Full workshop description:

📢 *Open Access* Thrilled to announce that my book "Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use" has just been flipped open access! Thanks to @helenbarton2004.bsky.social from @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social. The book & individual chapters can be downloaded here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

Soon in Bordeaux to present my recent book(s) 😊 Many thanks again @gdlinguist.bsky.social for the kind invitation!

🗣️ Aujourd'hui, j'ai présenté avec Cameron Morin notre ouvrage 'The meaning of constructions' (2025, Cambridge University Press) aux linguistes du laboratoire STL, Université de Lille. 🤓 De supers échanges après notre présentation, et la tête remplie d'idées pour des projets futurs !

🌟 📢 Outreach session I am co-organising, with Alexandru Nicolae, a special panel session of the SLE on "Communicating Linguistic Research" focusing on science communication research related to linguistics and outreach. Submission deadline is 1 March! societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/wp-c...

📊 Quick poll - For you, "Construction Grammar" is called after: (1) the basic building bloc, namely 'constructions' (static view) (2) the needed process of constructing an utterance & its function (dynamic view). [I just realized this impacts the French translation. Feel free to share 😊]

Dear SAES members, if your field is linguistics, stylistics, translation or anything else which you find isn't represented enough on this feed, feel free to tag me with CFPs, publications or info that will help me make this account more relevant to all of our community.

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⏳️ Nine more days to submit your abstract to our SLE workshop 👇 💬 Spread the word!

🎉 Thrilled to announce the publication of this special issue! My first time as a guest editor, and I couldn’t have asked for better collaborators than Carmen and Maricel. 🙌 It’s been an incredible journey—hope you enjoy reading it! 📖✨

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We have a new Element in our Series! Very proud to host Giulia Rambelli with a fantastic discussion of Constructions and Compositionality. Free download for the next couple of weeks. Come and get it while it's hot!!! DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

✨SLE workshop - "Isomorphism and Optionality in Language" With Cameron Morin, our workshop proposal for SLE 2025 has just been accepted! 📢 Submit your abstracts before January 15th. (Submission details: societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/thir...) 📜 Full workshop description:

👨‍🏫 With Cameron Morin and Dirk Pijpops, we presented our agent-based simulation on "No Equivalence" this morning at 'CogLing Days' in Antwerp. 🗯 Thoughtful questions, and great to continue the interesting discussions with @simazhi.bsky.social 😊