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Xavier Bach

@xavierbach.bsky.social

Associate Professor in Morphology and its interface with Syntax, Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès Typologist, historical linguist, morphologist

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In Turin to work on the unpublished morphological data collected for the Atlante linguistico italiano.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

16.07.2025 20:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This year's #cilfr has been a wonderful week: lots of colleagues, plenty of linguistics, real scientific discussion. A beautiful celebration for 100 years of #slr Plus Lecce is an absolutely beautiful city!

06.07.2025 16:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.
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03.07.2025 06:59 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Street sign saying in French "rue du fossé des tanneurs" and in Alsatian "Gerwergrawe"

Street sign saying in French "rue du fossé des tanneurs" and in Alsatian "Gerwergrawe"

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.

21.06.2025 10:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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).

17.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 1368    🔁 492    💬 35    📌 68
A trilingual sign showing Gare, ti-gar and Train station in French Breton and English

A trilingual sign showing Gare, ti-gar and Train station in French Breton and English

In Rennes, a lot of signs show multilingualism, including some street names, or these signs at the station with French, Breton and English #bzhg #multilingualism
Very little Breton and no Gallo heard in the streets though

07.06.2025 13:27 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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In Rennes to work on archival documents about Gallo. Plenty of verb morphology and pronouns to be talked about soon!

03.06.2025 11:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Starmer says migrants should speak English – but all of the UK’s languages are important for integration As the UK government doubles down on English as the sole route to integration, it shouldn’t mean leaving other languages behind.

As the UK government doubles down on English as the sole route to integration, it shouldn’t mean leaving other languages behind.

21.05.2025 10:06 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2

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