Kevin C
@somelinguist.bsky.social
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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...
#OpenScience, #AIResearch, #HistoryOfAI
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
January 12, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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...
#OpenScience, #AIResearch, #HistoryOfAI
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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No question, this is the most original paper I have ever written
It says that something that seems plain and obvious - humans have an intuitive sense of what is and is not grammatical - and describes how this apparent common sense is actually misleading
Thread coming soon!
It says that something that seems plain and obvious - humans have an intuitive sense of what is and is not grammatical - and describes how this apparent common sense is actually misleading
Thread coming soon!
Why does “The rat the cat the dog chased killed ate the malt” feel wrong even though it is grammatical? Thom Scott Phillips links gut judgements to communicative usefulness, not abstract rules
doi.org/10.25189/267...
#langsky #linguistics
doi.org/10.25189/267...
#langsky #linguistics
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
No question, this is the most original paper I have ever written
It says that something that seems plain and obvious - humans have an intuitive sense of what is and is not grammatical - and describes how this apparent common sense is actually misleading
Thread coming soon!
It says that something that seems plain and obvious - humans have an intuitive sense of what is and is not grammatical - and describes how this apparent common sense is actually misleading
Thread coming soon!
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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-...
doi.org/10.1515/zaa-...
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...
doi.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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-...
doi.org/10.1515/zaa-...
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Finally out & open access: Hoffmann & Turner on Creative Construction Grammar. How do we communicate complex meanings? How do we combine words into sentences?
#creativity #language #linguistics #Construction Grammar
Find out at
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
#creativity #language #linguistics #Construction Grammar
Find out at
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Creative Construction Grammar
Cambridge Core - Cognitive Linguistics - Creative Construction Grammar
www.cambridge.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Finally out & open access: Hoffmann & Turner on Creative Construction Grammar. How do we communicate complex meanings? How do we combine words into sentences?
#creativity #language #linguistics #Construction Grammar
Find out at
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
#creativity #language #linguistics #Construction Grammar
Find out at
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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New Cambridge Element, Creative Construction Grammar, by Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner, out now! Read Open Access at
https://cup.org/4pkd1np
#languageandlinguistics #LangSky
https://cup.org/4pkd1np
#languageandlinguistics #LangSky
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New Cambridge Element, Creative Construction Grammar, by Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner, out now! Read Open Access at
https://cup.org/4pkd1np
#languageandlinguistics #LangSky
https://cup.org/4pkd1np
#languageandlinguistics #LangSky
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Directional extensions in Chadic languages
| Language Science Press
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September 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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📙 '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!
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New draft paper: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...
March 12, 2025 at 5:49 AM
New draft paper: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...
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Register now for the LSA Linguistic Institute in Eugene, OR: over 80 courses over two 2.5-week terms (July 7-22::July 24-August 8). I'm teaching Constructions & the Grammar of Context with E Francis in session 1! center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
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March 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Register now for the LSA Linguistic Institute in Eugene, OR: over 80 courses over two 2.5-week terms (July 7-22::July 24-August 8). I'm teaching Constructions & the Grammar of Context with E Francis in session 1! center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/
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✨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:
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📢 *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...
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This might be the best Linguistic Institute (summer camp for linguists) ever!
and I hosted one and have taught at half a dozen
They're always great, but this one...😘
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/pro...
and I hosted one and have taught at half a dozen
They're always great, but this one...😘
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/pro...
February 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This might be the best Linguistic Institute (summer camp for linguists) ever!
and I hosted one and have taught at half a dozen
They're always great, but this one...😘
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/pro...
and I hosted one and have taught at half a dozen
They're always great, but this one...😘
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/pro...
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Need a stylesheet to recommend to your students for their papers? Try the Generic Style Rules for Linguistics: www.eva.mpg.de/linguistics/...
Generic Style Rules - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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February 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Need a stylesheet to recommend to your students for their papers? Try the Generic Style Rules for Linguistics: www.eva.mpg.de/linguistics/...
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It's cool how AI has made the maths machines incapable of doing maths
January 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It's cool how AI has made the maths machines incapable of doing maths
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First #Constructions paper in 2025: "ConstructiCon-based description: A nominal modification case study" by Shahar Shirtz & Rebecca Paterson doi.org/10.24338/con...
ConstructiCon-based description: A nominal modification case study
| Constructions
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January 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
First #Constructions paper in 2025: "ConstructiCon-based description: A nominal modification case study" by Shahar Shirtz & Rebecca Paterson doi.org/10.24338/con...
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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
December 23, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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
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SRCD#2 @relbelluck.bsky.social again! After exclusions to determine they understand the task, 3-5 yr old autistic children are found to recognize the importance of shape. The few that don't can learn it via a simple intervention: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s0lw0...
December 17, 2024 at 2:36 AM
SRCD#2 @relbelluck.bsky.social again! After exclusions to determine they understand the task, 3-5 yr old autistic children are found to recognize the importance of shape. The few that don't can learn it via a simple intervention: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s0lw0...
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"Why are universals of grammar easier to explain than geographical patterns?" Talk presented at EACL-1: zenodo.org/records/1447...
Why are universals of grammar easier to explain than geographical patterns?
Since the 1920s, geographical patterns of grammatical properties have been discussed occasionally, and since the 1990s, the discussion of large-scale areality has become an important part of comparati...
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December 16, 2024 at 4:29 PM
"Why are universals of grammar easier to explain than geographical patterns?" Talk presented at EACL-1: zenodo.org/records/1447...
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Wrote up some notes on Microsoft's new Phi-4 LLM. They trained it on a LOT of synthetic data, and the details of how and why they did that are really interesting.
simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/15/...
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Phi-4 Technical Report
Phi-4 is the latest LLM from Microsoft Research. It has 14B parameters and claims to be a big leap forward in the overall Phi series. From [Introducing Phi-4: Microsoft’s Newest …
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December 16, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Wrote up some notes on Microsoft's new Phi-4 LLM. They trained it on a LOT of synthetic data, and the details of how and why they did that are really interesting.
simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/15/...
simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/15/...
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This promises to be such an exciting contribution to the field of sociolinguistics - cannot wait to read it! Really grateful it will be published open access so my students and I can access it right away...
#linguistics Blue Sky-ers -- check out my book with Paul Reed, 'Language and Place', coming out *OPEN ACCESS* Jan 16, 2025! It's part of the Cambridge Elements in Sociolinguistics series, & offers advice to sociolinguists looking to engage more with place theory www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Language and Place
Cambridge Core - Sociolinguistics - Language and Place
www.cambridge.org
December 11, 2024 at 3:49 PM
This promises to be such an exciting contribution to the field of sociolinguistics - cannot wait to read it! Really grateful it will be published open access so my students and I can access it right away...
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The "when phrases act as words" paper ⬇️ documents & motivates the coerced familiarity, (mild) wittiness & sarcasm of 'phrasal compounds' @shaharshirtz. Seinfeld quote is a bonus
To appear, Language
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pehxt...
To appear, Language
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pehxt...
December 11, 2024 at 3:06 PM
The "when phrases act as words" paper ⬇️ documents & motivates the coerced familiarity, (mild) wittiness & sarcasm of 'phrasal compounds' @shaharshirtz. Seinfeld quote is a bonus
To appear, Language
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pehxt...
To appear, Language
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pehxt...
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social examines linguistic universals, typology, and the links between language diversity, culture, AI, and education in this Abralin talk. Learn how interdisciplinary work advances our understanding of languages.
Martin Haspelmath
YouTube video by Abralin
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December 9, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social examines linguistic universals, typology, and the links between language diversity, culture, AI, and education in this Abralin talk. Learn how interdisciplinary work advances our understanding of languages.
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Thrilled that our paper "Verbs of perception: A quantitative typological study", with @asifamajid.bsky.social has been awarded Best Paper in Language! Very grateful to @lingsocam.bsky.social
2025 LSA Award Winners
2025 LSA Award Winners
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December 3, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Thrilled that our paper "Verbs of perception: A quantitative typological study", with @asifamajid.bsky.social has been awarded Best Paper in Language! Very grateful to @lingsocam.bsky.social
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🐦🐦 Join us this summer for the Usage-based Approaches to Phonology Conference July 12-13 at the University of Oregon. The conference is open to diverse methodologies investigating the effects of use on phonology! Abstracts due Feb. 15, 2025 #linguistics #langsky
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The Usage-based Approaches to Phonology Conference will take place July 12-13, 2025 at the University of Oregon. This is co-located conference held during the Summer Institute of the Linguistic Societ...
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December 5, 2024 at 1:53 AM
🐦🐦 Join us this summer for the Usage-based Approaches to Phonology Conference July 12-13 at the University of Oregon. The conference is open to diverse methodologies investigating the effects of use on phonology! Abstracts due Feb. 15, 2025 #linguistics #langsky
sites.google.com/view/usage-b...
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Are you interested in islands? This is a very carefully written book about #islands describing many experiments and debunking some myths about them. A must read for everybody working in Generative Grammar.
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/362
#syntax #grammar
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/362
#syntax #grammar
November 15, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Are you interested in islands? This is a very carefully written book about #islands describing many experiments and debunking some myths about them. A must read for everybody working in Generative Grammar.
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/362
#syntax #grammar
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/362
#syntax #grammar