Publications

Books / Volumes / Issues

• Härtl, Holden & Katharina Zaychenko (2025, eds.) Grammatical Categories in Linguistics and Education ( Trends in Applied Linguistics TAL Volume 37) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
• Härtl, Holden & Marcel Schlechtweg (2023, eds.) Expressions of Quotation: Explorations on the Boundary between Use and Mention. Special issue of *Linguistics*, *Linguistics* 61 .2.
• Härtl, Holden (2013, ed.) Interfaces of Morphology — A Festschrift for Susan Olsen (= studia grammatica 74), Berlin: Akademie.
• Härtl, Holden (2008)Implicit Information: Linguistic Economy and Interpretive Complexity in Verbs (= studia grammatica 68), Berlin: Akademie.
• Härtl, Holden & Heike Tappe (2003, eds.) Mediating between Concepts and Grammar (= Trends in Linguistics 152), Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Härtl, Holden (2001) CAUSE and CHANGE. Thematic Relations and Event Structures in Conceptualization and Grammaticalization (= studia grammatica 50), Berlin: Akademie.

Articles

2026

• Körner, Anita, Peter Hofmann, Sarah Glim, Holden Härtl & Ralf Rummer (2026) Do experiences influence gender representations elicited by the gender star form?Applied Psycholinguistics. doi:10.1017/S0142716426100654.

2025

• Härtl, Holden (2025) Calling things by their names: Toward a unified account of name-informing and mixed quotation.Under revision.
• Härtl, Holden (2025) Entries “Scare Quotes”/“Echotheory”/“Pure Quotation.” To appear in: Daniel Gutzmann, Katharina Turgay & Thomas Ede Zimmermann (eds.) Semantics and Pragmatics – Dictionaries of Linguistics and Communication Studies. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
• Härtl, Holden (2025) Argument-structural restrictions on word-formation patterns. In: Müller, Peter O., Olsen, Susan, and Rainer, Franz. Word Formation – Special Patterns and Restrictions, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
• Raue, Natascha, Álvaro Cortés Rodríguez & Holden Härtl (2025) The processing of quotation marks in German: Evidence from eye-tracking. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 44 .1.

2024

• Schlechtweg, Marcel, Philippe De Brabanter & Holden Härtl (2024) The acoustic profile of English metalinguistic quotation. In: Schlechtweg, Marcel (ed.) Interfaces of Phonetics(Phonology and Phonetics series). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 249–280.
• Härtl, Holden & Jana-Maria Thimm (2024) Modal particles in ironic utterances: A common-ground approach to pretended surprise in verbal irony. *Pragmatics* 34.3, 347–366.

2023

• Glim, Sarah, Anita Körner, Holden Härtl & Ralf Rummer (2023) Early ERP indices of gender-biased processing elicited by generic masculine role nouns and the feminine–masculine pair form. Brain and Language, 242.
• Härtl, Holden & Marcel Schlechtweg (2023) Phrases inside words. To appear in: Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Eulalia Bonet & Antonio Fabregas (eds.) Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.
• Härtl, Holden & Marcel Schlechtweg (2023, eds.) Expressions of Quotation: Explorations on the Boundary between Use and Mention. Special issue of *Linguistics*, *Linguistics* 61 .2.
• Härtl, Holden & Marcel Schlechtweg (2023) Quotation as an interface phenomenon. *Linguistics*, 61.2, 275–284
• Schlechtweg, Marcel & Holden Härtl (2023) Quotation marks and the processing of irony in English: Evidence from a reading time study. Linguistics, 61.2, 355–390.

2022

• Cortés Rodríguez, Álvaro, Holden Härtl, Natascha Raue & Kristina Weissbecker (2022)“This text is called (an) article”—Referring nouns in name-informing quotation. Linguistic Research 39.2, 327–354.
• Wegner, Dennis, Marcel Schlechtweg & Holden Härtl (2022) Optionality and the recovery of temporal information in German verb clusters. Linguistische Berichte, 270, 113–170.
• Härtl, Holden (2022) Syntax of English. In: Ralf Klabunde, Wiltrud Mihatsch & Stefanie Dipper (eds.) Comparative Linguistics. German Studies – Romance Studies – English Studies. Berlin: Springer, 155–187.

2021

• Härtl, Holden & Tatjana Bürger (2021)“Well, that’s just great!”—An empirically based analysis of the non-literal and attitudinal content of ironic utterances. *Folia Linguistica*, 55.2, 361–387.

2020​​

• ​Schlechtweg, Marcel & Holden Härtl (2020) Do we pronounce quotation? An analysis of name-informing and non-name-informing contexts. Language and Speech 63.4, 769–798. [Pre-final draft]
• Härtl, Holden (2020) Referring nouns in name-informing quotation: A copula-based approach. In: Michael Franke, Nikola Kompa, Mingya Liu, Jutta L. Mueller & Juliane Schwab (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24 - Vol. 1. University of Osnabrück / Humboldt University of Berlin, 291–304.
• Georgakopoulos, Thanasis & Holden Härtl (2020) Goal prevalence and situation types: An empirical analysis of differences in Greek and German motion event descriptions. In: Michalis Georgiafentis, Giannoula Giannoulopoulou, Maria Koliopoulou & Angeliki Tsokoglou (eds.) Theoretical Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics. Morphological and Syntactic Perspectives (= Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics). London / New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 262–280.

2019

• Härtl, Holden & Heiko Seeliger (2019) Is a so-called “beach” a beach? An empirically based analysis of secondary content induced by ironic name use. In: Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay (eds.) Secondary Content - The Semantics and Pragmatics of Side Issues(= Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface series 37). Leiden: Brill, 200–221.
• ​Georgakopoulos, Thanasis, Holden Härtl & Athina Sioupi (2019) Goal realization: An empirically based comparison between English, German, and Greek. Languages in Contrast 19.2, 280–309.
• Kotowski, Sven & Holden Härtl (2019) How real are adjective order constraints? Multiple prenominal adjectives at the grammatical interfaces. Linguistics 57.2, 395–427.

2018

• Härtl, Holden (2018) Name-informing and distancing 'sogenannt' ('so-called'): Name mentioning and the lexicon-pragmatics interface. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 37-2 , 139–169 . [prefinal draft]

2016

• Härtl, Holden (2016) Normality at the boundary between word formation and syntax. Linguistische BerichteSpecial Issues 22(Ed. by Franz d'Avis and Horst Lohnstein), 71–98.
• Schlechtweg, Marcel & Holden Härtl (2016) Memorization and the morphology-syntax divide: A cross-linguistic investigation. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 13-1, 46–68.

2015​

• Härtl, Holden (2015) Article 49: Argument-structural restrictions on word-formation patterns. In: Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen & Franz Rainer (eds.) HSK Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 876–894.
• Härtl, Holden (2015) Situational Arguments of Non-Heads: Verb-Noun Compounds in the Interplay of Morphology, Syntax, and Pragmatics. In: Christian Fortmann, Anja Lübbe & Irene Rapp (eds.) Situational Arguments in the Nominal Domain. Linguistische Arbeiten 562. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 159–184.
• Härtl, Holden (2015) Semantic non-transparency in the mental lexicon: On the relation between word formation and naming. In: Claudia Brinker-von der Heyde, Nina Kalwa, Nina-Maria Klug & Paul Reszke (eds.) Actuality—On the Relationship between Language, Speakers, and the World. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 395–416.

2014

• Kotowski, Sven, Katja Böer & Holden Härtl (2014) Compounds vs. Phrases: The Cognitive Status of Morphological Products. In: Franz Rainer, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Francesco Gardani & Hans-Christian Luschützky (eds.) Morphology and Meaning.Selected Papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting (= Current Issues in Linguistic Theory). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 191–204.

​ 2013

• Bepperling, Svenja & Holden Härtl (2013) Event conceptualization in second language acquisition— Thinking for Speaking: A comparison of native speakers and learners. Zeitschrift für Semiotik 35 (1-2), 159–191.
• Härtl, Holden (2013) Generic rescue: argument alternations and the monotonicity condition. In: Patrick Brandt & Eric Fuß (eds.) Repairs—The Added Value of Being Wrong(= Interface Explorations 27), Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 95–130.
• Härtl, Holden (2013) Arguments of non-heads. In: Holden Härtl (ed.) Interfaces of Morphology (= studia grammatica 74), Berlin: Akademie, 163–177.