Stefan Hartmann

EVOLANG 2026 - Call for Papers

Gentle reminder that the #CfP for #Evolang2026 @evolangconf.bsky.social is still open - deadline October 26! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/e...

RIP Peter Eisenberg (1940-2025), syntactician of German, phonologist, orthography specialist, and very public linguist (who was not afraid of controversies). He was my second PhD advisor in 1990-93, and an important person in my life during those years at FU Berlin. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_E...

Wie nennt ihr Zeitungen, Zeitschriften & Co.? 📰 🗞️ (Hoffentlich) spannende Umfrage, die gern geteilt werden darf: surveys.phil.hhu.de/umfrage/inde...

It's been a while since I've written a book review - here's our review of Herbst & Hoffmann (2024), my first but definitely not last collaboration with the brilliant @bbunzeck.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S136... ($)

The first of the three corpora of German-English bilingual children's early speech that we've been working on for the last few years is finally publicly available! 🥳 🎉 talkbank.org/childes/acce...

Ich bin leider wegen der parallelen Protolang nur im Geiste dabei, aber man kann mich wählen 😅

EVOLANG 2026

Three days until #Protolang9 in Vienna! The last Protolangs happened to coincide with the #Evolang deadline so that everyone was feverishly trying to finish their Evolang papers during the conference - this year we have more time; see here for more information about #Evolang2026: evolang2026.org

The Role of Play in Language Structure, Acquisition and Evolution Similarly to language, play is an essential component of human behaviour and culture. However, the links between play and language have been underexamined and often neglected beyond the aesthetic use...

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨
Out now in #Language and #Linguistics Compass with
@stefanhartmann.bsky.social
& Antonio Benítez-Burraco:
"The role of play in language structure, acquisition and evolution" (this time with a working link)
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Wobei das mit Mitte-Rechts/Mitte-Links ein Spahn-Zitat war, mit dem Schmiese ihn offensichtlich konfrontiert hat, um zu gucken, ob er die Brandmauer in Frage stellt, was er dann zum Glück nicht gemacht hat…

Save the date and spread the word: Die 23. STaPs wird am 13.-14. März 2026 an der Universität Osnabrück stattfinden! Haltet die Augen offen für Updates auf der Website (staps.stuts.eu/23-staps-osn...). 🎉 #staps23

The chicken and the egg: unraveling aspects of semantic change and how they relate to lexical acquisition Several recent studies have shown intricate correlations between semantic change and the age of acquisition (AoA) of words, thus reviving the long-sta…

After publishing in the Journal of Primatology, I thought I should extend my studies to other animal species, so here's a paper about chickens and eggs. Thanks to Andreas Baumann for inviting me to collaborate on this exciting project! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We wrote a little overview chapter on Evolutionary Linguistics with Jonas Nölle and @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd ed), edited by Nesi&Milin. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... (with extra references! the handbook had a limit on those)

Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte Volume 16 Issue 1 Volume 16, issue 1 of the journal Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte was published in 2025.

Letzte Woche ist mit "Historische Grammatik(en)" das neue Jahrbuch der @ggsg.bsky.social erschienen, herausgegeben von Lena Schnee, Henriette Huber und mir: www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

Two new papers out in #Constructions!
- Flavio Pisciotta: Construction Grammar meets Graph Theory doi.org/10.24338/con...
- Gauthier Delaby & Timothy Colleman: Multiple sources of constructional contamination in different language varieties doi.org/10.24338/con...

Don’t forget to send in your application before the summer hols! Deadline August 18

tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

Open rank professorship in Tampere, English linguistics. We will be working side by side

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now posted! evolang2026.org. Workshop proposals due Sept 22nd. Paper submissions October 26th. Evolang is interdisciplinarity at its best. We hope to see you in Plovdiv!!

EVOLANG 2026

The website for #Evolang2026 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, is live 🎉 #Evolang16 Submission deadline: 26 October 2025 evolang2026.org

Bushaltestellenschild Oer-Mitte

#OER 😍 Grüße ans @sell-hhu.bsky.social

The website gives a whole new meaning to „landing page“ indeed 🤣 But the scientific committee is currently being assembled, so the call should go out any day now!

CrowdEst2 formr survey framework. chain simple surveys into long runs, use the power of R to generate pretty feedback and complex designs

If you have a few minutes, you can help out a colleague by estimating some numbers: crowdest2.uklab.cz

295Chaos Theory, Shmaos Theory 295Chaos Theory, Shmaos Theory was published in Dynamics at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface on page 295.

Happy to be part of this excellent volume on #creativity and routine at the lexicon-syntax interface by Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Natalia Filatkina, another fun collaboration with Tobias Ungerer on English shm-reduplication doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Digitale Revolution voller Missverständnisse - ORF Topos Emotionen werden seit Menschengedenken in Symbole übersetzt. Aber in kaum einer Epoche haben Bildschriftzeichen die weltweite Alltagskommunikation so verändert und geprägt wie heute Emojis. Obwohl sic...

✨Happy World Emoji Day✨

Ich durfte mit ORF Topos über Emoji und Emoticons reden: topos.orf.at/emoji-geschi...

Dieses Jahr kommen auch 9 neue Emoji - ich tippe auf Apfelkern als Emoji des Jahres 2026 blog.emojipedia.org/draft-emoji-...

A picture of the award ceremony

A picture of the rector and me after he handed me the prize

I am honoured to have received the 1st Degree Award of the Rector of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń for Individual Scientific Achievements in 2024 in the Field of Humanities.

Our lab also got a 3rd Degree Award for Scientific Team Achievements, go us!

Ihr habt noch 4 Tage Zeit, mich zu löchern!

Department of English Language and Linguistics (ANG3) ,
@hhu.de
strongly represented at Tag der Forschung (Research Day) 🧠📚 putting the ✨#glamour back into 📚 #grammar. We’re showing great teaching enables great research — at every level. 🌟 1/4
#TagderForschung #EnglishLinguistics #ProudDepartment

Silhouette of the Düsseldorf skyline with the text „Grammar& Corpora& Ramen& more“

Stay tuned #GrammarAndCorpora #GaC2027

Der Trend geht zum Zweitlehrpreis - und das hochverdient, Glückwunsch @alexwillich.bsky.social!! 🎉🥳🎊

Muchas gracias @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for inviting me! Can’t even tell what I enjoyed more — discussing LLMs with your students or the Ramen we had afterwards. 😁🍜

Screenshot from ChatGPT. Prompt: How many "i"s are there in the word "Bielefeld"? Answer: The word "Bielefeld" contains 2 instances of the letter "i".

Thanks to @bbunzeck.bsky.social for a nuanced, accessible, thought-provoking and entertaining guest lecture on the potentials and limitations of LLMs for linguistic research in my seminar on empirical linguistics! Now I can't stop trying out variations of this...