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

W2-Professur #Grammatik des Deutschen und #Fachdidaktik, TU Dortmund, Bewerbungsfrist 11.06. #jobs #Germanistik #Linguistik www.academics.de/jobs/univers...

Am 5. Juli 2025 kehrt der #Heinrich an die @hhu.de zurück - diesmal in den Räumen der MatNat und daher einmalig als Crossover mit Beiträgen aus PhilFak & MatNat. Wir suchen noch weitere Slammer:innen - mit der Betonung auf :innen, denn vier tolle Slammer (m.) haben schon zugesagt... #Heinrich2025

The notifications of acceptance have been sent out! Who's coming to #Vienna for #Protolang9?

Already looking forward to this conference! As they say in Austria, it's going to be urleiwand 😍

Join us for the 11th International Conference of the DGKL/GLCA in beautiful #Bielefeld! #CognitiveLinguistics

In #Bielefeld 👇 @dgkl-gcla.bsky.social

Yess de Kök Tower is nog vrij #Tallinn

Neues #openaccess Paper mit Nikolas Koch, Antje Quick & Claudia Riehl zum #Dativ -Abbau im #Blumenau -Deutschen doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Exciting news! ✨ Do you want to ... 👩‍💻... work on linguistic creativity 🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #linguistics #BLinguistik

Ich vor vielen Wochen: wie cool, die #Kokokom Tagung in Karlsruhe findet in dem Kunst-/Medienmuseum statt, wo wir früher mit der Schule immer waren! Ich gestern:Wegbeschreibung brauchschnich, ich weiß ja, wo das ZKM ist Ich heute, gehe zielstrebig zum ZKM: warum ist da niemand? Lektion: KIT ≠ ZKM