Benoît Leclercq
@benoitleclercq.bsky.social
Associate Professor in English Linguistics - University of Lille. Interested in English, the semantics-pragmatics interface, Construction Grammar, Relevance Theory - VP (outreach) of AFLiCo
https://pro.univ-lille.fr/benoit-leclercq
https://pro.univ-lille.fr/benoit-leclercq
📣 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-...
“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-...
October 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
📣 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-...
“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-...
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.
August 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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.
📢 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!
🤝 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!
August 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
📢 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!
🤝 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!
📙 '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!
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!
May 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
📙 '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!
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 😊
📍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 😊
April 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
🌞 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 😊
📍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 😊
🗣 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). 🤓
March 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🗣 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). 🤓
✨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:
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:
March 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
✨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:
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...
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...
February 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
📢 *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...
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...
🗣️ 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 !
🤓 De supers échanges après notre présentation, et la tête remplie d'idées pour des projets futurs !
February 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🗣️ 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 !
🤓 De supers échanges après notre présentation, et la tête remplie d'idées pour des projets futurs !
✨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, 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:
December 16, 2024 at 8:47 AM
✨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, 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 😊
🗯 Thoughtful questions, and great to continue the interesting discussions with @simazhi.bsky.social 😊
December 13, 2024 at 12:47 PM
👨🏫 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 😊
🗯 Thoughtful questions, and great to continue the interesting discussions with @simazhi.bsky.social 😊
Only stumbled upon it for the first time today, but this one is now quite high in my list of favorite quotes! 😃
(Fillmore. 1992. "Corpus linguistics" or "Computer-aided armchair linguistics". pp. 58-59)
(Fillmore. 1992. "Corpus linguistics" or "Computer-aided armchair linguistics". pp. 58-59)
December 11, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Only stumbled upon it for the first time today, but this one is now quite high in my list of favorite quotes! 😃
(Fillmore. 1992. "Corpus linguistics" or "Computer-aided armchair linguistics". pp. 58-59)
(Fillmore. 1992. "Corpus linguistics" or "Computer-aided armchair linguistics". pp. 58-59)
📢 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!
✅️ First time for me as a guest editor, it was a pleasure to have @gdlinguist.bsky.social & Dylan Glynn by my side!
November 26, 2024 at 7:52 AM
📢 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!
✅️ First time for me as a guest editor, it was a pleasure to have @gdlinguist.bsky.social & Dylan Glynn by my side!