Alessandro Basile
@alessandrobasile.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English linguistics at Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 🇫🇷 modality, language change, cognitive contact linguistics, World Englishes
Just back in Paris after a few weeks in China for the first edition of the #Grammaticalization vs. #DiachronicConstructionGrammar workshop at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, followed by some lectures at Capital Normal University (Beijing). Many thanks to my hosts for the kind invitation!
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just back in Paris after a few weeks in China for the first edition of the #Grammaticalization vs. #DiachronicConstructionGrammar workshop at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, followed by some lectures at Capital Normal University (Beijing). Many thanks to my hosts for the kind invitation!
📢 New paper alert!
Our new paper with Steven Coats, Cameron Morin & Robert Fuchs introduces a brand-new corpus of #SingaporeEnglish podcasts (available open access).
Check it out here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Our new paper with Steven Coats, Cameron Morin & Robert Fuchs introduces a brand-new corpus of #SingaporeEnglish podcasts (available open access).
Check it out here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
September 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
📢 New paper alert!
Our new paper with Steven Coats, Cameron Morin & Robert Fuchs introduces a brand-new corpus of #SingaporeEnglish podcasts (available open access).
Check it out here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Our new paper with Steven Coats, Cameron Morin & Robert Fuchs introduces a brand-new corpus of #SingaporeEnglish podcasts (available open access).
Check it out here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Honoured to have given a plenary lecture at the #SLE2025 conference in Bordeaux!
I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena.
📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here:
#linguistics
I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena.
📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here:
#linguistics
Societas Linguistica Europaea - 58th Annual Meeting26-29 August 2025, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
YouTube video by Université Bordeaux Montaigne
youtu.be
September 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Honoured to have given a plenary lecture at the #SLE2025 conference in Bordeaux!
I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena.
📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here:
#linguistics
I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena.
📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here:
#linguistics
Reposted by Alessandro Basile
😊 Happy authors, happy publisher!
🎉 Congratulations to our author Carmelo Alessandro Basile for winning the prestigious Eugenio Coseriu Award presented by the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) at their 58th Annual Meeting in Bordeaux. #SLE2025
🎉 Congratulations to our author Carmelo Alessandro Basile for winning the prestigious Eugenio Coseriu Award presented by the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) at their 58th Annual Meeting in Bordeaux. #SLE2025
August 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
😊 Happy authors, happy publisher!
🎉 Congratulations to our author Carmelo Alessandro Basile for winning the prestigious Eugenio Coseriu Award presented by the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) at their 58th Annual Meeting in Bordeaux. #SLE2025
🎉 Congratulations to our author Carmelo Alessandro Basile for winning the prestigious Eugenio Coseriu Award presented by the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) at their 58th Annual Meeting in Bordeaux. #SLE2025
Reposted by Alessandro Basile
In my latest research note, I assess the impact of an internet increasingly populated by AI-generated texts on linguistics and corpora.
corpling.hypotheses.org/4690
corpling.hypotheses.org/4690
Corpus linguistics in the LLM era – the changing nature of language data
The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has brought both opportunities and challenges to the field of corpus linguistics. These AI systems generate vast amounts of language output that often app...
corpling.hypotheses.org
November 27, 2024 at 12:22 PM
In my latest research note, I assess the impact of an internet increasingly populated by AI-generated texts on linguistics and corpora.
corpling.hypotheses.org/4690
corpling.hypotheses.org/4690
Reposted by Alessandro Basile
📢 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!