EHU CRG events are held online (via MS Teams), and are free to attend. Times are GMT. Registration opens three weeks before each event. The link is sent to registered participants the day before the event. If you have problems registering, or have any questions, contact the organiser: Costas Gabrielatos ([email protected]).
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MEETING #18: Friday 19 December 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. Registration closes on Wednesday 17 December.
Topic: Philosophies of Language and Corpus Linguistics
Alan Partington (SiBol Group/CoLiTec, Italy)
Language Distrusted, Language Ignored, Language Recovered: From Plato to Corpus Linguistics and Beyond
I wish to discuss the Long Essay, A Short History of the Philosophies Underpinning Corpus Linguistics: From Aristotle to AI, which traces the intertwined histories of linguistic and philosophical thought that shaped—and sometimes resisted—the emergence of corpus linguistics. The 2nd heavily revised, updated and now illustrated edition is free to download: https://zenodo.org/records/17818859
New themes include:
• Metaphorophobia in classical philosophy.
• How and why CL can fruitfully cohabit and collaborate with AI/LLMs
• Ontological and epistemological differences between CL, CaDS and LLMs. LLMs: just artefacts or self-organising organisms (Kant)?
• How AI learns metaphorical usage and evaluation. Are there patterns of creative language (including humour) that AI can acquire then use?
• CL as a physical and a human science: causality (Bacon) versus teleology (Aristotle)
• CL/CaDS and the revenge of evaluation, from Hunston to evaluative cohesion.
Alan Partington has taught linguistics at the Universities of Bologna and Camerino, Italy. He is the author of Patterns and Meanings, co-author of Patterns and Meanings in Discourse (both John Benjamins) and author of The Linguistics of Political Argument, The Linguistics of Laughter and The Language of Persuasion in Politics and the Media (all Routledge). He was the co-founding Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies. Contact: [email protected]
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MEETING #19: Thursday 8 or Friday 9 January 2026, 2-4 pm
Topic: Corpus Tools
Pavel Rychlý (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
TITLE TBC
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MEETING #20: Friday 6 March 2026, 10:00-11:30 am
Topic: LLMs, Corpus Linguistics, and Language Learning
Peter Crosthwaite (University of Queensland, Australia)
From induction to generation: Advances in combining corpus approaches to language learning with LLMs
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