Stefan Hartmann
@stefanhartmann.bsky.social
Linguist @ HHU Düsseldorf. Language dynamics, cognitive linguistics, Construction Grammar, corpus linguistics; dabbling in stats & data science. Also, bad puns. He/him. 🏳️🌈
Looking forward to an extravagant guest lecture next week in Berlin www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/exrean/...
Lecture Stefan Hartmann: “From the corpus to the lab: Assessing the role of extravagance in language change”
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de
October 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Looking forward to an extravagant guest lecture next week in Berlin www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/exrean/...
Still can't process the fact that the Sixteenth Conference on the Evolution of Language #EVOLANG16 is also #EVOLANG26 🤯
In case this has been boggling you as well and prevented you from finishing your paper, we have actually extended the deadline to November 3rd 🥳 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/e...
In case this has been boggling you as well and prevented you from finishing your paper, we have actually extended the deadline to November 3rd 🥳 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/e...
EVOLANG 2026 - Call for Papers (2nd)
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October 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Still can't process the fact that the Sixteenth Conference on the Evolution of Language #EVOLANG16 is also #EVOLANG26 🤯
In case this has been boggling you as well and prevented you from finishing your paper, we have actually extended the deadline to November 3rd 🥳 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/e...
In case this has been boggling you as well and prevented you from finishing your paper, we have actually extended the deadline to November 3rd 🥳 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/e...
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I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.
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Das crazy! Ich wurde für die SZ zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres interviewt - hier ohne Paywall (checke hätte gewonnen 🥀) archive.ph/202510171219...
archive.ph
October 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Das crazy! Ich wurde für die SZ zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres interviewt - hier ohne Paywall (checke hätte gewonnen 🥀) archive.ph/202510171219...
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Preprint alert! We release BabyBabelLM, a multilingual benchmark of developmentally plausible training data. I was responsible for German and Polish data as well as various child-directed wikis. Immensely rewarding project with exceptionally cool co-authors. 🥳🚀
𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇸🇪
Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉
arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159
Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉
arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159
October 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Preprint alert! We release BabyBabelLM, a multilingual benchmark of developmentally plausible training data. I was responsible for German and Polish data as well as various child-directed wikis. Immensely rewarding project with exceptionally cool co-authors. 🥳🚀
October 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Gentle reminder that the #CfP for #Evolang2026 @evolangconf.bsky.social is still open - deadline October 26! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/e...
EVOLANG 2026 - Call for Papers
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October 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Gentle reminder that the #CfP for #Evolang2026 @evolangconf.bsky.social is still open - deadline October 26! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/e...
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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...
September 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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...
Publikationsorgane
surveys.phil.hhu.de
September 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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... ($)
Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann, A Construction Grammar of the English language: CASA – a constructionist approach to syntactic analysis (Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 5). Amsterdam and Philadel...
Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann, A Construction Grammar of the English language: CASA – a constructionist approach to syntactic analysis (Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 5). Amsterdam and Philadel...
doi.org
September 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It's been a while since I've written a book review - here's our review of Herbst & Hoffmann (2024), my first but definitely not last collaboration with the brilliant @bbunzeck.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S136... ($)
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...
CHILDES English-German MPI-EVA-Leipzig Corpus
talkbank.org
September 19, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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...
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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
EVOLANG 2026
evolang2026.org
September 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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
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🚨 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/...
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/...
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...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🚨 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/...
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/...
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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
23. STaPs Osnabrück | STaPs
staps.stuts.eu
September 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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
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...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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...
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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)
September 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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)
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/...
Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte Volume 16 Issue 1
Volume 16, issue 1 of the journal Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte was published in 2025.
www.degruyterbrill.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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/...
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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
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
August 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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
@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...
- 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...
Construction Grammar meets Graph Theory: A network analysis of the relational behavior of Italian psych-predicates
| Constructions
doi.org
August 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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...
- 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...
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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
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Open rank professorship in Tampere, English linguistics. We will be working side by side
go.bsky.app
July 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Open rank professorship in Tampere, English linguistics. We will be working side by side
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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!!
August 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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!!
The website for #Evolang2026 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, is live 🎉 #Evolang16 Submission deadline: 26 October 2025 evolang2026.org
EVOLANG 2026
evolang2026.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The website for #Evolang2026 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, is live 🎉 #Evolang16 Submission deadline: 26 October 2025 evolang2026.org
#OER 😍 Grüße ans @sell-hhu.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#OER 😍 Grüße ans @sell-hhu.bsky.social
If you have a few minutes, you can help out a colleague by estimating some numbers: crowdest2.uklab.cz
CrowdEst2
formr survey framework. chain simple surveys into long runs, use the power of R to generate pretty feedback and complex designs
crowdest2.uklab.cz
July 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If you have a few minutes, you can help out a colleague by estimating some numbers: crowdest2.uklab.cz
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...
295Chaos Theory, Shmaos Theory
295Chaos Theory, Shmaos Theory was published in Dynamics at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface on page 295.
doi.org
July 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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...