Benoît Leclercq

Semantics and pragmatics in Construction Grammar Abstract This squib provides a theoretical discussion on the use of the terms semantics and pragmatics in Construction Grammar. In the literature, the difference between semantics and pragmatics is of...

🔐 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.

Volume 26 | 2025 Of Time and Space CogniTextes. Revue de l’Association française de linguistique cognitive. Revue électronique. La revue s’est donnée pour mission de forger des liens durables entre les chercheurs travaillant, de prè...

📢 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-...

CogniTextes - Revue de l’Association française de linguistique cogn... CogniTextes. Revue de l’Association française de linguistique cognitive. Revue électronique. La revue s’est donnée pour mission de forger des liens durables entre les chercheurs travaillant, de prè...

📣 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
📧 cognitextes@revues.org
🔗 journals.openedition.org/cognitextes

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Books: Advanced English Grammar: Depraetere and Langford (2025) With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting stalled in the complex specifics. This textbook pulls all of the relevant ideas from linguistic theory to support the language student to fully understand English grammar. After introducing form and function, the authors cover verbs, nouns, aspect and tense

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!

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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.
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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.
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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...
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🌞 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) 🥳