Publications
Monographs
Pleyer, Michael & Stefan Hartmann (2024): Cognitive Linguistics and Language Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [open access]
Ungerer, Tobias & Stefan Hartmann (2023): Constructionist approaches. Past, present, future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [open access]
Hartmann, Stefan (2018): Deutsche Sprachgeschichte. Grundzüge und Methoden. Tübingen: Narr. [link] [Supplementary material] [Errata]
Hartmann, Stefan (2016): Wortbildungswandel. Eine diachrone Studie zu deutschen Nominalisierungsmustern. (Studia Linguistica Germanica, 125.) Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. [link] [datasets on TroLLing]
Journal papers
Hartmann, Stefan & Olaf Mikkelsen (minor revisions): Future constructions in English and Norwegian. A contrastive corpus study. Journal of Germanic Linguistics.
Ibbotson, Paul, Antje Endesfelder Quick, Stefan Hartmann & Nikolas Koch (minor revisions): Frequency, redundancy and context in bilingual acquisition. Journal of Child Language.
Hartmann, Stefan, Sławomir Wacewicz, Andrea Ravignani, Daria Valente, Evelina Daniela Rodrigues, Rie Asano, Yannick Jadoul (accepted): Delineating the field of language evolution research: A quantitative analysis of peer-review patterns at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE 2022). Interaction Studies.
Berg, Kristian, Stefan Hartmann & Daniel Claeser (2023): Are some morphological units more prone to spelling variation than others? A case study using spontaneous handwritten data. Morphology. [link]
Hartmann, Stefan (2023): Komplexe Wörter zwischen Konstrukt und Konstruktion. Neuere gebrauchsbasierte Ansätze und ihre Implikationen für die Wortbildung. Zeitschrift für Wortbildung. [link]
Hartmann, Stefan & Tobias Ungerer (2023): Attack of the snowclones. A corpus-based analysis of extravagant formulaic patterns. Journal of Linguistics. [open access]
Cappelle, Bert, Robert Daugs & Stefan Hartmann (2023): The English privative prefixes near-, pseudo- and quasi-: Approximation and ‘disproximation’. Journal of Word Formation. [open access]
Koch, Nikolas, Stefan Hartmann & Antje Endesfelder Quick (2022): Traceback and chunk-based learning. Comparing corpus-based computational approaches to child code-mixing. Languages. [open access]
Pleyer, Michael, Ryan Lepic & Stefan Hartmann (2022): Compositionality in Different Modalities: A View from Usage-Based Linguistics. International Journal of Primatology. [open access]
Hartmann, Stefan & Antje Endesfelder Quick (2022): und das da go to school. Bilingualer Spracherwerb und Phänomene mehrsprachigen Sprechens. Der Deutschunterricht.
Quick, Antje Endesfelder & Stefan Hartmann (2021): The building blocks of child bilingual code-mixing – A cross-corpus traceback approach. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences. [open access]
Hartmann, Stefan (2021): Diachronie der Zukunft: werden + Infinitiv und Konkurrenzkonstruktionen im Mittelhochdeutschen und Frühneuhochdeutschen. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur.
Koch, Nikolas, Antje Endesfelder Quick & Stefan Hartmann (2021): The Traceback method and the early constructicon: Theoretical and methodological considerations. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. [link]
Hartmann, Stefan, Sławomir Wacewicz, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Michael Pleyer & Antonio Benítez-Burraco (2021): Hypotheses and definitions in language evolution research. A reply to Mendívil-Giró. Biolinguistics. [link]
Hartmann, Stefan & Michael Pleyer (2021): Constructing a protolanguage: Reconstructing prehistoric languages in a usage-based construction grammar framework. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. [link] [preprint]
Ungerer, Tobias & Stefan Hartmann (2020): Delineating extravagance. Assessing speakers’ perceptions of imaginative constructional patterns. Belgian Journal of Linguistics. [link] [preprint]
Koch, Nikolas, Antje Endesfelder Quick & Stefan Hartmann (2020): Individual differences in discourse priming. A traceback approach. Belgian Journal of Linguistics. [link]
Pleyer, Michael & Stefan Hartmann (2020): Construction Grammar for monkeys? Animal communication and its implications for language evolution in the light of usage-based linguistic theory. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory. [link] [preprint]
Wacewicz, Sławomir, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Stefan Hartmann, Michael Pleyer & Antonio Benítez-Burraco (2020): Language in language evolution research. Towards a pluralistic view. Biolinguistics. [link]
Pleyer, Michael & Stefan Hartmann (2019): Constructing a consensus on language evolution? Convergences and differences between biolinguistic and usage-based approaches. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences. [link]
Hartmann, Stefan (2019): Compound worlds and metaphor landscapes: Affixoids, allostructions, and higher-order generalizations. Word Structure. [link] [preprint] [data & preprint on osf]
Endesfelder Quick, Antje, Stefan Hartmann, Ad Backus & Elena Lieven (2019): Entrenchment and productivity. The role of input in the code-mixing of a German-English bilingual child. Applied Linguistics Review. doi 10.1515/applirev-2019-0027. [link]
Hartmann, Stefan (2018): Up and down the substantivization cline: Response to Bekaert & Enghels. Language Sciences. doi 10.1016/j.langsci.2018.07.007[preprint] [link]
Hartmann, Stefan (2018): Derivational morphology in flux. A case study on word-formation change in German. Cognitive Linguistics. [pdf] [link] [dataset & scripts]
Pleyer, Michael, Stefan Hartmann, James Winters & Jordan Zlatev (2017): Interaction and iconicity in the evolution of language. Introduction to the special issue. Interaction Studies. [preprint] [link]
Tinits, Peeter, Jonas Nölle & Stefan Hartmann (2017): Usage context influences the evolution of overspecification in Iterated Learning. Journal of Language Evolution 2(2), 148-159. doi 10.1093/jole/lzx011 [link] [dataset & scripts]
Barteld, Fabian, Stefan Hartmann & Renata Szczepaniak (2016): The usage and spread of sentence-internal capitalization in Early New High German. A multifactorial approach. Folia Linguistica 50(2), 385-412. [pdf] [link] [datasets & scrips on TroLLing]
Fonteyn, Lauren & Stefan Hartmann (2016): Usage-based perspectives on diachronic morphology: A mixed-methods approach towards English ing-nominals. Linguistics Vanguard. [pdf] [link]
Hartmann, Stefan (2014): What drives morphological change? A case study from the history of German. Linguisticae Investigationes 37.2, Special Issue “Morphology and its Interfaces”. [pdf] [link]
Hartmann, Stefan (2014): “Nominalization” Taken Literally. A Diachronic Corpus Study of German Word-Formation Patterns. Italian Journal of Linguistics 26, Special Issue “New Territories in Word-Formation”, 123-156. [open access]
Hartmann, Stefan (2013): Zwischen Transparenz und Lexikalisierung: Das Wortbildungsmuster X-ung(e) im Mittelhochdeutschen. In: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 135 (2), 159-183. [pdf] [link] [dataset]
Hartmann, Stefan (2013): Das Wortbilden und die Wortbildung. Was grammatikalischer Wandel über Sprache und Kognition verrät. In: Nouveaux Cahiers d’Allemand 31 (2), 163-175.
Editorial work
Meletis, Dimitrios, Stefan Hartmann & Rebecca Treiman (in prep.): Handbook of Germanic Writing Systems. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
Schnee, Lena & Stefan Hartmann (eds.) (in prep.): Futures of the past. The diachrony of future constructions across languages. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Hartmann, Stefan, Evelina Daniela Rodrigues, Michael Pleyer, Natlie Uomini & Nathalie Gontier (eds.) (in prep.): Comparative perspectives on multimodality and compositionality. Special issue of International Journal of Primatology.
Hartmann, Stefan, Jonas Nölle & Peeter Tinits (eds.) (2020): New directions in language evolution research. Special issue of Language Dynamics and Change. [Part 1] [Part 2]
Dücker, Lisa, Stefan Hartmann & Renata Szczepaniak (eds.) (2019): Historische Korpuslinguistik. (Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte 10). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. [link]
Dücker, Lisa, Stefan Hartmann & Renata Szczepaniak (eds.) (2020): Hexenverhörprotokolle als sprachhistorisches Korpus. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik). [link]
Cuyckens, Hubert, Liesbet Heyvaert & Stefan Hartmann (eds.) (2019): Categorial shift – From description to theory and back again. Special issue of Language Sciences.
Hartmann, Stefan, Michael Pleyer, James Winters & Jordan Zlatev (eds.) (2017): Interaction and iconicity in the evolution of language. Special issue of Interaction Studies.
Hartmann, Stefan (ed.) (2017): Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 2016. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. [link]
Handbook chapters
Hartmann, Stefan & Michael Pleyer (forthc.). Corpus-based approaches to evolutionary dynamics in language. In Limor Raviv & Cedric Boeckx (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [preprint]
Hartmann, Stefan. (2024). Derivation in Germanic. In Sebastian Kürschner and Antje Dammel (eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Germanic Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.955. [link] [preprint]
Hartmann, Stefan & Renata Szczepaniak. (2023). Elements of writing systems. In Marco Condorelli & Hanna Rutkowska (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography, 50–73. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108766463.003.
Papers in edited volumes
Pleyer, Michael & Stefan Hartmann (forthc.). A usage-based perspective on evolutionary pragmatics. In: Ines Adornetti & Francesco Ferretti (eds.), Introducing Evolutionary Pragmatics: How Language Emerges from Use. London: Routledge.
Mikkelsen, Olaf & Stefan Hartmann. 2022. Competing future constructions and the complexity principle: A contrastive outlook. In Susanne Flach & Martin Hilpert (eds.), Broadening the spectrum of corpus linguistics: new approaches to variability and change (Studies in Corpus Linguistics volume 105), 9–40. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Dücker, Lisa, Stefan Hartmann & Renata Szczepaniak (2021): The emergence of sentence-internal capitalization in Early New High German: Towards a multifactorial quantitative account. In Marco Condorelli (ed.): Advances in diachronic orthography, 1500-1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dücker, Lisa, Stefan Hartmann & Renata Szczepaniak (2021): Satzinterne Großschreibung in Hexenverhörprotokollen. Multifaktorielle Analyse des Majuskelgebrauchs – pragmatische, semantische und syntaktische Einflussfaktoren. In Lisa Dücker, Stefan Hartmann & Renata Szczepaniak (eds.): Hexenverhörprotokolle als sprachhistorisches Korpus. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
Hartmann, Stefan & Michael Pleyer. 2020. A new hope (for common ground)? Convergences between biolinguistic and usage-based approaches to language and its evolution. In Andrea Ravignani, Chiara Barbieri, Mauricio Martins, Molly Flaherty, Yannick Jadoul, Ella Lattenkamp, Hannah Little, Katie Mudd & Tessa Verhoef (eds.), The evolution of language: Proceedings of the 13th international conference (EvoLang13). [link]
Hartmann, Stefan (2018): Divergent theories, converging evidence. The constructional semantics of competing future constructions. In Beate Hampe & Susanne Flach (eds.), Corpora, Constructions, Cognition. A Festschrift for Doris Schönefeld. (Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 2018.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. [link]
Neels, Jakob & Hartmann, Stefan (2018): Reduction or expansion? A bit of both. A case study on the development of German degree modifiers. In: Coussé, E. et al.: Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 137-168. [preprint] [link]
Kempf, Luise & Hartmann, Stefan (2018): Schema unification and morphological productivity. A diachronic perspective. To appear in: Geert Booij (ed.), The construction of words: Advances in construction morphology. Berlin: Springer, 441-474. [preprint]
Hartmann, Stefan & Sties, Nora (2017): Implizite Aggression in Online-Kommentaren anlässlich der Debatte um rassistische Sprache in Kinderbüchern. In: Bonacchi, S. (ed.): Verbale Aggression. Multidisziplinäre Zugänge zur verletztenden Macht der Sprache. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 305-328. [pdf] [link]
Hartmann, Stefan (2016): Mittendrin statt nur dabei. Progressivität und experimentelle Semantik. In: Holl, D.; Noel Aziz Hanna, P.; Sonnenhauser, B.; Trautmann, C. (eds.): Variation und Typologie. (Bavarian Working Papers in Linguistics.) [open access]
Hartmann, Stefan, Peeter Tinits, Jonas Nölle, Thomas Hartmann & Michael Pleyer (2016): Plain Simple Complex Structures. The Emergence of Overspecification in an Iterated Learning Setup. In: Seán G. Roberts, Christine Cuskley, Luke McCrohon, Lluís Barceló-Coblijn, Olga Fehér & Tessa Verhoef (eds.) The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11). [open access]
Pleyer, Michael & Stefan Hartmann (2016): Construction Grammar for Apes. In: Seán G. Roberts, Christine Cuskley, Luke McCrohon, Lluís Barceló-Coblijn, Olga Fehér & Tessa Verhoef (eds.) The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11). [open access]
Hartmann, Stefan (2015): Metaphorische Grenzgänge. Die wissenschaftliche Metapher im linguistischen Diskurs. In: Andreas Hölzl, Matthias Klumm, Mara Matičević, Thomas Scharinger, Johannes Ungelenk & Nora Zapf (Eds.): Die Politik der Metapher. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann,157-171. [pdf]
Hartmann, Stefan (2015): Constructional Change at the Interface of Cognition, Culture, and Language Use. In: Haug, D.T.T. (Ed.): Historical Linguistics 2013. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [pdf]
Hartmann, Stefan (2014): Constructing a Schema. Word-Class Changing Morphology in a Usage-Based Perspective. In: Hilpert, M. & Flach, S. (Eds.): Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 2014. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. [pdf] [link to publisher’s version] [Datasets & R Script]
Pleyer, Michael & Stefan Hartmann (2014): A Matter of Perspective. Viewpoint Phenomena in the Evolution of Grammar. In: Cartmill, Erica A., Seán G., Heidi Lyn & Hannah Cornish (eds.): The Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference. Singapore: World Scientific, 98-105. [pdf]
Hartmann, Stefan (2014): A Constructionist Approach to the Evolution of Morphological Complexity. In: Cartmill, Erica A., Seán G., Heidi Lyn & Hannah Cornish (eds.): The Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference. Singapore: World Scientific, 106-113. [pdf]
Hartmann, Stefan (2014b): Mögliche und unmögliche Wörter. Wortbildungsrestriktionen im diachronen Wandel. In: Babel, Reinhard, Nadine Feßler, Sandra Fluhrer, Sebastian Huber & Sebastian Thede: Alles Mögliche. Sprechen, Denken und Schreiben des (Un)Möglichen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 223-235. [preprint]
Hartmann, Stefan (2014): The Diachronic Change of German Nominalization Patterns. An Increase in Prototypicality. In: Rundblad, Gabriella, Aga Tytus, Olivia Knaption & Chris Tang (eds.): Selected Papers from the 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference. London: UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, 152-171. [pdf]
Hartmann, Stefan (2014): The Rise and Fall of Word-Formation Patterns. A Historical Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Word-Formation Change. In: Evelyn Gandón Chapela et al. (eds.): Current Research in Applied Linguistics: Issues on Language and Cognition. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 74-102. [preprint]
Hartmann, Stefan (2014): Wortbildungswandel im Spiegel der Sprachtheorie: Paradigmen, Konzepte, Methoden. In: Vilmos Ágel & Andreas Gardt (eds.): Paradigmen der aktuellen Sprachgeschichtsforschung. (Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte, 5.) Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 176-193. [pdf] [link]
Hartmann, Stefan (2013a): Ergoogelung, Entfreundung, Klarifizierung. Zur Produktivität der ung-Nominalisierung im Gegenwartsdeutschen im diachronen Vergleich. In: Petra M. Vogel (ed.): Sprachwandel im Neuhochdeutschen. (Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte; 4.) Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 94-108. [pdf] [link]
Hartmann, Stefan (2013b): Sterben in Metaphern. Liebestod und Kognitive Poetik. In: Danielle Buschinger, Florent Gabaude, Jürgen Kühnel & Mathieu Olivier (eds.): Tristan et Yseut, ou L’Eternel Retour. (Médiévales; 56.) Amiens: Presses du Centre d’Etudes Médiévales, 136-147.
Hartmann, Stefan (2012a): Linguistische Kategorien und derivationsmorphologischer Wandel. Prototypenansätze in der Sprachwissenschaft am Beispiel der diachronen Entwicklung der ung-Nominalisierung. In: Elisabeth Fritz, Rita Rieger, Nils Kasper & Stephan Köchel (eds.): Kategorien zwischen Denkform, Analysewerkzeug und historischem Diskurs. Heidelberg: Winter, 143-158.
Hartmann, Stefan (2012b): Verbotene Wörter. Unmögliche Möglichkeiten in Kultur, Literatur, Religion und Sprache. In: Danielle Buschinger, Jürgen Kühnel, Claire Le Ninan & Christine Reno (eds.): Les Interdits. Actes du Colloque International à Amiens, 1, 2 et 3 mars 2012. (Médiévales, 54.) Amiens: Presses du Centre d’Études Médiévales, 89-101.
Hartmann, S. (2012c): Isoldes Gottesurteil im Kontext des zeitgenössischen Wunderdiskurses: Theologische und mentalitätsgeschichtliche Überlegungen zu einer Schlüsselpassage des Gottfriedschen “Tristan”-Fragments. In: Kolisang, Caroline & Stefan Hartmann (eds): Variationen des Tristan-Stoffes in diachroner Darstellung. Herausgegeben in Zusammenarbeit mit Danielle Buschinger. (Médiévales, 52.) Amiens: Presses du “Centre d’Études Médiévales”, 16-38.
Miscellaneous papers
Barceló i Coblijn, Lluís; Cuthbertson, Cory M.; Graham, Kirsty E.; Hartmann, Stefan & Pleyer, Michael (2016): Conference Report on Evolang 11. Journal of Language Evolution 1(2), 159-162. [link]
Parino, Katrin & Stefan Hartmann (2017): Tagungsbericht “Register des digitalen Schreibens”. Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 45(3), 443-450.
Hartmann, Stefan (2016): Zwischen Fantasy und Postmoderne. Aspekte der Nibelungen-Rezeption in der zeitgenössischen Literatur. In Jürgen Kühnel & Florent Gabaude (eds.): Études offertes à Danielle Buschinger par ses collègues, élèves et amis à l’occasion de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire. Vol. 2. Amiens: Presses du Centre d’Études Médiévales de Picardie, 68-77.