Xavier Bach
@xavierbach.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Morphology and its interface with Syntax, Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès
Typologist, historical linguist, morphologist
Typologist, historical linguist, morphologist
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After more than ten years of preparation, our Manual of French-based Creoles is finally available for download.
What better place to announce this publication than during a visit to Martinique?
🦎🌴
Fok zot kouri gadé-y !
What better place to announce this publication than during a visit to Martinique?
🦎🌴
Fok zot kouri gadé-y !
Manuel des langues créoles à base française
The handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of French Creole studies, from a both comparative and language-specific perspective. Covering structural and historical features of French-based Creole ...
www.degruyterbrill.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:22 PM
After more than ten years of preparation, our Manual of French-based Creoles is finally available for download.
What better place to announce this publication than during a visit to Martinique?
🦎🌴
Fok zot kouri gadé-y !
What better place to announce this publication than during a visit to Martinique?
🦎🌴
Fok zot kouri gadé-y !
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Just published "Negation in the worlds languages" (3 vols) edited by Matti Miestamo & Ljuba Veselinova with Héloïse Calame. #rcg #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
January 23, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Just published "Negation in the worlds languages" (3 vols) edited by Matti Miestamo & Ljuba Veselinova with Héloïse Calame. #rcg #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
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#OTD 100 years ago, Luise Hercus (1926–2018) was born 🎉 She initially focused on Middle Indo-Aryan languages, but later turned to fieldwork, documenting a number of Australian Indigenous languages such as Paakantyi, Wirangu, and Diyari.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
January 16, 2026 at 8:52 AM
#OTD 100 years ago, Luise Hercus (1926–2018) was born 🎉 She initially focused on Middle Indo-Aryan languages, but later turned to fieldwork, documenting a number of Australian Indigenous languages such as Paakantyi, Wirangu, and Diyari.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
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Just published "A grammar of Hewramî" by Masoud Mohammadirad #cogl #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
January 13, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Just published "A grammar of Hewramî" by Masoud Mohammadirad #cogl #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
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Validation par le droit du fait que l'écriture inclusive est bien du français. Cette décision a été prise en 2023 (voir ci-dessous) et entérinée par le Conseil d’État récemment.
Bon, c'est juste du bon sens, l'usage du point médian en français peut difficilement être autre chose que du français.
Bon, c'est juste du bon sens, l'usage du point médian en français peut difficilement être autre chose que du français.
January 6, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Validation par le droit du fait que l'écriture inclusive est bien du français. Cette décision a été prise en 2023 (voir ci-dessous) et entérinée par le Conseil d’État récemment.
Bon, c'est juste du bon sens, l'usage du point médian en français peut difficilement être autre chose que du français.
Bon, c'est juste du bon sens, l'usage du point médian en français peut difficilement être autre chose que du français.
Ma langue natale, a documentary about some of the last speakers of #normand
www.france.tv/france-3_nor...
#Oïl #normaund #GalloRomance
www.france.tv/france-3_nor...
#Oïl #normaund #GalloRomance
Ma langue natale - Documentaire en replay La France en Vrai - Normandie
<p>Un road-movie à la rencontre de ceux qui s’efforcent de maintenir vivants les patois normands et leur patrimoine.</p>
www.france.tv
January 3, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Ma langue natale, a documentary about some of the last speakers of #normand
www.france.tv/france-3_nor...
#Oïl #normaund #GalloRomance
www.france.tv/france-3_nor...
#Oïl #normaund #GalloRomance
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📖 ‘To be or not to be?’ That’s just the beginning of a linguistic mystery
The linguist Dr Luca Ciucci is among the editors of a new 1,300-page work exploring how the world's languages handle ‘to be’. Here, he reveals more about his research 👇
@lingulist.de #linguistics 🧪
The linguist Dr Luca Ciucci is among the editors of a new 1,300-page work exploring how the world's languages handle ‘to be’. Here, he reveals more about his research 👇
@lingulist.de #linguistics 🧪
To be or not to be: Exploring a unique word in the world’s languages
Dr Luca Ciucci is among the editors of a groundbreaking work that could help us to understand how the world's languages handle "to be". Here, he explains his research.
www.digital.uni-passau.de
December 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
📖 ‘To be or not to be?’ That’s just the beginning of a linguistic mystery
The linguist Dr Luca Ciucci is among the editors of a new 1,300-page work exploring how the world's languages handle ‘to be’. Here, he reveals more about his research 👇
@lingulist.de #linguistics 🧪
The linguist Dr Luca Ciucci is among the editors of a new 1,300-page work exploring how the world's languages handle ‘to be’. Here, he reveals more about his research 👇
@lingulist.de #linguistics 🧪
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A curated global dataset of social contact between diverse language communities
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A curated global dataset of social contact between diverse language communities
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🐺 L'occitan a una regularitat dins la formacion de d'unes mots. Atal per "far los pichons", mas sonque se siètz un mamifèr ! Emai pel lop doncas, que coneis son fais de derivats, çò explica Xavier Bach... 🧑🏫
Lobatar | Xavier Bach
Dins la familha lop, i a lo lop segur, que servís a l'encòp de mot generic per l'espècia e de mòt per dire lo mascle, mes i a tanben la loba e lo pichon, lo lobat o lo lobet, segon los parlars. Pel…
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December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🐺 L'occitan a una regularitat dins la formacion de d'unes mots. Atal per "far los pichons", mas sonque se siètz un mamifèr ! Emai pel lop doncas, que coneis son fais de derivats, çò explica Xavier Bach... 🧑🏫
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5-year (!) postdoc opportunity: Join our Edinburgh team and do fieldwork on the Burun languages!
Deadline for application: 17 December.
Position starts March 1st, 2025
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Deadline for application: 17 December.
Position starts March 1st, 2025
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December 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
5-year (!) postdoc opportunity: Join our Edinburgh team and do fieldwork on the Burun languages!
Deadline for application: 17 December.
Position starts March 1st, 2025
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Deadline for application: 17 December.
Position starts March 1st, 2025
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
A special issue on Occitan literature in the 17th century, with a contribution with colleagues on early traces of dance music in Occitan for the violin, and so much more (Christmas carols in Toulouse, Gascon in Canada, polyphony in Provence...)
Nouvelle parution : Littératures classiques, n°117, Vocalités d'oc (théâtre, chanson, poésie) (dir. Jean-François COUROUAU). À retrouver prochainement sur @cairninfo.bsky.social et dès maintenant aux @pumidi-editions.bsky.social : pum.univ-tlse2.fr/produit/litt...
December 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A special issue on Occitan literature in the 17th century, with a contribution with colleagues on early traces of dance music in Occitan for the violin, and so much more (Christmas carols in Toulouse, Gascon in Canada, polyphony in Provence...)
New publication, open access:
De la marchandise au consulat : accès à une littératie vernaculaire à Montpellier au xiiie siècle
Xavier Bach et Pierre-Joan Bernard
doi.org/10.4000/156pz
#medievalsky #linguistics #Occitan #Montpellier
De la marchandise au consulat : accès à une littératie vernaculaire à Montpellier au xiiie siècle
Xavier Bach et Pierre-Joan Bernard
doi.org/10.4000/156pz
#medievalsky #linguistics #Occitan #Montpellier
De la marchandise au consulat : accès à une littératie vernaculaire...
1. Introduction Les archives et écrits de marchands sont rares dans la documentation conservée, particulièrement avant le xive siècle, où l’on commence à trouver de la correspondance commerciale. L...
doi.org
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
New publication, open access:
De la marchandise au consulat : accès à une littératie vernaculaire à Montpellier au xiiie siècle
Xavier Bach et Pierre-Joan Bernard
doi.org/10.4000/156pz
#medievalsky #linguistics #Occitan #Montpellier
De la marchandise au consulat : accès à une littératie vernaculaire à Montpellier au xiiie siècle
Xavier Bach et Pierre-Joan Bernard
doi.org/10.4000/156pz
#medievalsky #linguistics #Occitan #Montpellier
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November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Who wants to be the new professor for general #linguistics in Cologne? 👀
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November 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Who wants to be the new professor for general #linguistics in Cologne? 👀
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solidarity with all colleagues and students at Nottingham who are having their jobs and degrees destroyed by management. the relentless annihilation of language provision in UKHE is something that *every* academic should be calling out and pushing back against.
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
solidarity with all colleagues and students at Nottingham who are having their jobs and degrees destroyed by management. the relentless annihilation of language provision in UKHE is something that *every* academic should be calling out and pushing back against.
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Le livre de Philippe Blanchet sur la glottophobie est désormais disponible gratuitement sur internet. À lire pour vous faire une idée sur les discriminations liées aux langues et à nos manières de nous exprimer.
www.lambert-lucas.com/livre/discri...
www.lambert-lucas.com/livre/discri...
Discriminations : combattre la glottophobie - Éditions Lambert-Lucas
Les discriminations fondées sur la langue sont largement ignorées alors (…)
www.lambert-lucas.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Le livre de Philippe Blanchet sur la glottophobie est désormais disponible gratuitement sur internet. À lire pour vous faire une idée sur les discriminations liées aux langues et à nos manières de nous exprimer.
www.lambert-lucas.com/livre/discri...
www.lambert-lucas.com/livre/discri...
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Interesting Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B theme issue: "A solid base for scaling up: the structure of numeration systems". Edited by Andrea Bender, Jean-Charles Pelland, @simongreenhill.bsky.social, & @coollinguist.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1937
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October 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Interesting Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B theme issue: "A solid base for scaling up: the structure of numeration systems". Edited by Andrea Bender, Jean-Charles Pelland, @simongreenhill.bsky.social, & @coollinguist.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
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My paper "Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities" (PhilTransB) addresses a whole class of questions around the role that semiotic modality, and specifically number words vs. number symbols, plays in the structure of numerical systems.
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The base concept in number systems is realized differently across multiple representational modalities—frameworks that incorporate sensory channel, medium of expression and semantic structures into integrated semiotic systems. Because these three factors ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My paper "Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities" (PhilTransB) addresses a whole class of questions around the role that semiotic modality, and specifically number words vs. number symbols, plays in the structure of numerical systems.
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Excited to see Gender Linguistics officially launched during LILG 2025 here at @hhu.de – and to share this moment with so many colleagues passionate about language and gender.
Looking forward to your submissions!
#linguistics
Looking forward to your submissions!
#linguistics
One highlight of LILG 2025: the official launch of the new open-access journal Gender Linguistics!
Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender.
Learn more: gender-linguistics.org
#linguistics #journal #launch
Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender.
Learn more: gender-linguistics.org
#linguistics #journal #launch
August 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Excited to see Gender Linguistics officially launched during LILG 2025 here at @hhu.de – and to share this moment with so many colleagues passionate about language and gender.
Looking forward to your submissions!
#linguistics
Looking forward to your submissions!
#linguistics
In Turin to work on the unpublished morphological data collected for the Atlante linguistico italiano. The city is great, and the data wonderful! #RomanceLinguistics #ALI #Torino
July 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In Turin to work on the unpublished morphological data collected for the Atlante linguistico italiano. The city is great, and the data wonderful! #RomanceLinguistics #ALI #Torino
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📖📢PARUTION "LE CARTULAIRE DES TRENCAVEL" PAR @htldv.bsky.social (ÉD.)
📚Le dernier ouvrage paru dans la collection des documents inédits sur l'histoire de France est disponible dès aujourd'hui.
➡️ Se procurer l'ouvrage : cths.fr/ed/edition.p...
➡️ En savoir plus sur nos éditions : cths.fr/ed/index.php
📚Le dernier ouvrage paru dans la collection des documents inédits sur l'histoire de France est disponible dès aujourd'hui.
➡️ Se procurer l'ouvrage : cths.fr/ed/edition.p...
➡️ En savoir plus sur nos éditions : cths.fr/ed/index.php
July 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
📖📢PARUTION "LE CARTULAIRE DES TRENCAVEL" PAR @htldv.bsky.social (ÉD.)
📚Le dernier ouvrage paru dans la collection des documents inédits sur l'histoire de France est disponible dès aujourd'hui.
➡️ Se procurer l'ouvrage : cths.fr/ed/edition.p...
➡️ En savoir plus sur nos éditions : cths.fr/ed/index.php
📚Le dernier ouvrage paru dans la collection des documents inédits sur l'histoire de France est disponible dès aujourd'hui.
➡️ Se procurer l'ouvrage : cths.fr/ed/edition.p...
➡️ En savoir plus sur nos éditions : cths.fr/ed/index.php
In Strasbourg for a meeting of the DIVITAL project (divital.gitpages.huma-num.fr/fr/). So nice to share work done on multiple languages of France in a city where multilingualism is present! Street signs again, but also a lot of overheard conversations in the streets.
June 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
In Strasbourg for a meeting of the DIVITAL project (divital.gitpages.huma-num.fr/fr/). So nice to share work done on multiple languages of France in a city where multilingualism is present! Street signs again, but also a lot of overheard conversations in the streets.
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A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
![Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether or not they do [89, 140].”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uj2g526vwfe3qnpuskjexeyp/bafkreiappchidtcrrumnegykz4uq6chvznuu6fg4pbutw5y7yjaab2iczu@jpeg)
June 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).