Stefan Hartmann

List of John Benjamins publications for which Stefan Hartmann plays a role.

Title

Interaction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language

Edited by Stefan Hartmann, Michael Pleyer, James Winters and Jordan Zlatev

Special issue of Interaction Studies 18:3 (2017) v, 173 pp.
Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies

Articles

Nowak, Jessica and Stefan Hartmann 2024 The rise and fall of sentence-internal capitalization in English: A corpus-based approachUnlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types, Caon, Luisella, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck (eds.), pp. 33–59 | Chapter
This paper addresses an empirically under-researched aspect of English historical orthography: the rise and fall of sentence-internal capitalization of common nouns. Our corpus study supports previous findings with respect to the developmental course of common noun capitalization, i.e., a steady… read more
Extravagance can be conceived of as a (more or less) deliberate deviation from established norms that evokes surprise or attention. In this paper, we present an empirical case study of a rare but quite remarkable morphological pattern, namely German pseudo-participles – forms that look like past… read more
Mikkelsen, Olaf and Stefan Hartmann 2022 Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle: A contrastive outlookBroadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change, Flach, Susanne and Martin Hilpert (eds.), pp. 8–39 | Chapter
This paper presents a contrastive study on the role of syntactic complexity in the choice between different future constructions in English and Norwegian. Previous work on the English future alternation (BE going to vs. will) has shown that going to is preferred in syntactically complex contexts. read more
Koch, Nikolas, Antje Endesfelder Quick and Stefan Hartmann 2020 Individual differences in discourse priming: A traceback approachThe Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 186–198 | Article
In this paper we use corpora of four monolingual German-speaking children at 2 years of age to analyze the effect of input on the activation of chunks and frame-and-slot patterns. For this purpose, we first investigate to what extent chunks and patterns can be traced back to the direct input… read more
In recent years, multiple researchers working on the evolution of language have put forward the idea that the theoretical framework of usage-based approaches and Construction Grammar is highly suitable for modelling the emergence of human language from pre-linguistic or proto-linguistic… read more
Ungerer, Tobias and Stefan Hartmann 2020 Delineating extravagance: Assessing speakers’ perceptions of imaginative constructional patternsThe Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 345–356 | Article
While the concept of extravagance, used to describe speakers’ use of imaginative and noticeable language, has seen a surge in popularity in recent constructionist work, researchers have not yet converged on a set of common criteria for identifying extravagant expressions. In this paper, we… read more
Neels, Jakob and Stefan Hartmann 2018 Reduction or expansion? A bit of both: A case study on the development of German degree modifiersGrammaticalization meets Construction Grammar, Coussé, Evie, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson (eds.), pp. 137–168 | Chapter
This paper presents a diachronic analysis of the German quantifier/degree-modifier constructions ein bisschen (‘a bitDIM’) and ein wenig (‘a little’). On the basis of data from two historical corpora, we examine to what extent these constructions followed a grammaticalization path comparable to the… read more
Pleyer, Michael, Stefan Hartmann, James Winters and Jordan Zlatev 2017 Interaction and iconicity in the evolution of language: Introduction to the special issueInteraction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language, Hartmann, Stefan, Michael Pleyer, James Winters and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), pp. 303–313 | Introduction
On the basis of an extensive corpus analysis, this paper investigates how cognitive, cultural, and language-internal factors conspire in the diachronic development of German nominalization patterns. Focusing on nominalization with the suffix -ung, the present study demonstrates that this… read more
Hartmann, Stefan 2014 What drives morphological change? A case study from the history of GermanMorphology and its interfaces: Syntax, semantics and the lexicon, Amiot, Dany, Delphine Tribout, Natalia Grabar, Cédric Patin and Fayssal Tayalati (eds.), pp. 275–289 | Article
This paper investigates the role of syntactic, semantic, and lexical factors in the diachronic development of German nominalization patterns. Drawing on an extensive corpus analysis of Early New High German and New High German texts, it is shown that (a) deverbal nominals in the suffix -ung tend to… read more