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...

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.

Das crazy! Ich wurde für die SZ zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres interviewt - hier ohne Paywall (checke hätte gewonnen 🥀) archive.ph/202510171219...

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. 🥳🚀

New paper by @remivantrijp.bsky.social in #Constructions! doi.org/10.24338/con...

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...

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

🚨 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/...

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...

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/...

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!!

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

#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

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...

✨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-...

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

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. 😁🍜

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!"

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

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...

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)

which one is Kiki and which one is Bouba?

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

In wie vielen Sprachen kann man Nein sagen? Getränkeautomat: Ja

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

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 🤩

🚨New publication alert! "Corpus-based approaches to evolutionary dynamics in language" (w/ @stefanhartmann.bsky.social) out now in the in the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. Kudos to @limorraviv.bsky.social & @cedricboeckx.bsky.social for putting this great volume together!

Lingu-Stefan im Glück: Mein erstes Festivalbändchen! #republica25

So macht Lehre Spaß: Heute tolle Seminarsitzung mit @hhu.de-Alumnus @wikirogi.d-64.social, mit dem wir über Digitalpolitik, generative KI und seinen anstehenden Vortrag auf der @re-publica.com diskutieren konnten. Wir freuen uns schon sehr auf die Exkursion dorthin! re-publica.com/en/node/6909

New book by @benoitleclercq.bsky.social and Cameron Morin. Great stuff, showing once again that these guys have no equivalence!

Glückwunsch an @stefanhartmann.bsky.social und toi toi toi! 🎉

🎓 Guten Morgen, HHU! CHE-Ranking: HHU mit guten Ergebnissen in Germanistik und Psychologie Im neuen Hochschulranking 25/26 schneidet die Heinrich-Heine-Universität in den Fächern Germanistik und Psychologie besonders gut ab. Die Bewertungen basieren auf der Einschätzung von Studierenden.1/3