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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 6d

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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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 10d

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...

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 10d

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

Publikationsorgane

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 12d

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...

doi.org

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Protolang @protolang.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 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/...

The Role of Play in Language Structure, Acquisition and Evolution

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · Sep 7

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…

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23. STaPs Osnabrück @staps23.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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Andres Karjus @andreskarjus.bsky.social · Sep 1

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)

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

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

Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 15

📌 👉 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!

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · Aug 24

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...

Construction Grammar meets Graph Theory: A network analysis of the relational behavior of Italian psych-predicates | Constructions

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

go.bsky.app

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evolangconf.bsky.social @evolangconf.bsky.social · Aug 7

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!!

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

EVOLANG 2026

evolang2026.org

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · Aug 2

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!

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · Jul 26

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

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · Jul 26

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.

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jul 17

✨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-...

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...

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · Jul 2

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!

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

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · Jul 1

Ihr habt noch 4 Tage Zeit, mich zu löchern!

Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · Jun 20

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

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

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