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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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...
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Discriminations : combattre la glottophobie - Éditions Lambert-Lucas
Les discriminations fondées sur la langue sont largement ignorées alors (…)
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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...
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📚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).
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
Very little Breton and no Gallo heard in the streets though
June 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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
Very little Breton and no Gallo heard in the streets though
In Rennes to work on archival documents about Gallo. Plenty of verb morphology and pronouns to be talked about soon!
June 3, 2025 at 11:34 AM
In Rennes to work on archival documents about Gallo. Plenty of verb morphology and pronouns to be talked about soon!
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As the UK government doubles down on English as the sole route to integration, it shouldn’t mean leaving other languages behind.
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.
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May 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
As the UK government doubles down on English as the sole route to integration, it shouldn’t mean leaving other languages behind.