Remi van Trijp

The “how it started vs. how it’s going” memes practically write themselves

New book out in the CAL Series: "The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: A diachronic constructional approach" by Fangqiong Zhan
doi.org/10.1075/cal.41 #ConstructionGrammar

An OpenClaw agent makes a pull request to matplotlib. Mainter rejects PR. The OpenClaw agent authors a blog post accusing the maintainer of discrimination and gatekeeping. Maintainer responds theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

The score is still Q to 12!

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

“For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop”

www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

History of Ideas in the Science of AI

Excited to share that our book "History of Ideas in the Science of AI" (co-authored with Luc Steels and Ann Dooms) is now freely available as #OpenAccess!
#OpenScience, #AIResearch, #HistoryOfAI
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

First time I did a genuine book signing session. Feels great!

*am doubling down

This is one of the reasons why I doubling down on writing in a more personal, narrative style, even though I’m catching a lot of flak for it from reviewers. The original reason was that I didn’t want to get bored by my own texts when revising

Leading AI expert delays timeline for its possible destruction of humanity Former OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo says progress to AGI is ‘somewhat slower’ than first predicted

David Lightfoot once quipped: “Subjacency has many virtues, but...it could not have increased the chances of having fruitful sex.” But if you see how many people are swayed by LLMs, it seems that smoothtalkers do have an advantage
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Sounds like an interesting and important project. I would have applied if I were twenty years younger

So happy to see this book published - a great collaboration with Luc Steels and Ann Dooms. Open Access version is coming soon, but if you happen to be in Brussels this Thursday, you're welcome to join us for the book's official launch: lnkd.in/e_envZx9 #ArtificialIntelligence #HistoryOfScience

Outside in the cold pre-frying fries for tonight (so the smell doesn’t enter the house). You can take the man out of Belgium, but you can’t take Belgium out of the man 🇧🇪🍟 Merry Christmas to all of you 🎁🎄

Very interesting. But rather than calling it “the” science of falling in love, be clear that it’s about brain correlates. There’s undoubtedly much more to the topic than what our brains are doing

*opinion dynamics

Great thread! I mostly agree but it’s a problem of scale. There’s some older work in opinion that shows that a population is robust against some “cheating” but there must be a threshold where the system risks collapsing

I love arriving at work and having a new book waiting for me. Just in time for the holiday break!
#ConstructionGrammar

Congratulations! I just found my holiday lecture 📖

New Publication: "Understanding Conversational AI: Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Large Language Models" (270 pages, Ubiquity Press, open access). Feel free to read it and share it widely! www.ubiquitypress.com/books/m/10.5...

I was more thinking about the fact that LLMs generate well-formed sentences without needing semantic interpretation. I would have expected cognitive linguists, with their emphasis on conceptualization and embodiment, would have been much more critical

Funny how generative linguists are generally skeptical about LLMs and cognitive linguists often embrace them. I had expected it the other way round

Never mind speech recognition. As a parent (and linguist), I often find myself thinking “now that’s a phrase I would have never imagined ever saying”

Constructions in Contact 3 Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. This book presents new research on the constructionist modelling of language contact phenomen...

It's been out for a while, but in case you missed it: Hans Boas and I have edited another "Constructions in Contact" volume in the Constructional Approaces to Language series (@johnbenjamins.bsky.social). benjamins.com/catalog/cal.40 #DCxG #CxG

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Twenty years ago, starting as an assistant researcher, Luc Steels gave me my first-ever job: write a history of ideas of our research. I only now came around to finishing that paper. More soon!

New Cambridge Element, Creative Construction Grammar, by Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner, out now! Read Open Access at
https://cup.org/4pkd1np
#languageandlinguistics #LangSky

Special Issue: Describing English Constructions; Issue Editors: Barthe Bloom and Thomas Herbst Volume 73, issue 3 of the journal Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik was published in 2025.

Check out this exiting issue with papers from various flavors of Construction Grammar describing English constructions! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

🌱⏭️ Symposium 'Le maraîchage sur petite surface'
15 janv. 2026 – Saint-Denis

Une journée de rencontres entre #maraîchers, #chercheurs et acteurs de la transition #agroécologique

Conférences, retours d’expérience 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇨🇦 & visite de ferme

Programme 👉 sonycslparis.github.io/FrenchMethod/
sur inscription

Describing English Constructions: An Introduction Article Describing English Constructions: An Introduction was published on September 1, 2025 in the journal Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (volume 73, issue 3).

Many thanks to Barthe Bloom and Thomas Herbst for putting this special issue together! You can read their introduction here

doi.org/10.1515/zaa-...

Moving Past Slot-Fillers: Balancing English Argument Structure with Fluid Construction Grammar Constructional approaches view argument structure constructions as grammatical templates with open slots to be filled by verbs and their arguments, organized in an inheritance network. This paper argu...

I believe #ConstructionGrammar has outgrown some of its founding metaphors (slot-fillers; inheritance networks). In this #OpenAccess paper I propose two frame shifts in constructional thought:
doi.org/10.1515/zaa-...