Stefan Hartmann

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...

Accidentally philosophical email opening:

"Dear ***,
I hope all is!"

Werbebild für das Ask Me Anything Sprache&Sprachwissenschaft am 5. Juli beim Tag der Forschung mit QR-Code und Link zu Tellonym

Am 5. Juli findet an der @hhu.de der #TagDerForschung statt - mit vielfältigem Programm (tagderforschung.hhu.de). Neben der Neuauflage des #Heinrich-Slams u. vielen anderen Programmpunkten gibt es ein Sprache&Sprachwissenschaft-Ask-me-Anything mit mir - Fragen gerne hier: tellonym.me/hartmast

Registration Registration

Registration for #Protolang9 in Vienna is open - early bird fees until the end of June: protolang9.univie.ac.at/registration/

Recycling constructional patterns: The role of chunks in early bilingual acquisition - Nikolas Koch, Antje Endesfelder Quick, Stefan Hartmann, 2025 Aims and Objectives: Over the last decades, usage-based research into child language acquisition has shown that multi-word units play a key role in child langua...

New #openaccess paper with Nikolas Koch & Antje Quick in the International Journal of Bilingualism - "Recycling constructional patterns: The role of chunks in early bilingual acquisition" doi.org/10.1177/1367...

Sławek in front of the title slide

Our #CLIC2025 Theme Session continues. Sławomir Wacewiz is presenting our collaborative work on "Understanding the limits of experiments in language evolution: inferences from closed Vs open ended semantic paradigms (w/ Kuleshova, me, Hartmann, Blomberg, Sibierska, Zywiczynski, Placiński)

Confs: Intensification Workshop (DGfS 2026)

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Claude logo

which one is Kiki and which one is Bouba?

Perfect! 👍

Amazing, thanks! Maybe we can meet at the poster session tomorrow? I could either give you cash or send you the money via bank transfer or PayPal, whatever you prefer :)

Have you already found someone? If not I’d be happy to take it :)

A dark blue rubber cup

Result of a Google image search: a dark blue menstrual cup cleaning pot

The mysterious #isb15 conference gimmick and what Google Image Search thinks it is 🧐

Bahn.Comfort

Getränkeautomat mit einem Aufkleber, der 1- und 2-Cent-Münzen zeigt und daneben das Wort Nein in mehreren Sprachen

In wie vielen Sprachen kann man Nein sagen?

Getränkeautomat: Ja

Here we are @stefanhartmann.bsky.social #rp25 @re-publica.com

It’s partly true - indeed there’s this tendency in many cases, but there’s also the rise of new grammatical markers via grammaticalization (i.e. lexical features becoming grammatical over time), which also explains how seemingly more complex grammars emerged in the first place

Ever since I was a little PhD student I dreamed of writing a chapter for an Oxford Handbook - now @symbolicstorage.bsky.social and I had the great opportunity to contribute to the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution 🤩