​​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: Towards a unified account for name-informing and mixed quotation. Dialogue and Discourse 16.2, 111–124.
• Härtl, Holden (2025) Entries "Scare Quotes"/"Echotheorie"/"Reine Anführung". To appear in: Daniel Gutzmann, Katharina Turgay & Thomas Ede Zimmermann (eds.) Semantik und Pragmatik – Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. 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

• 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. 
• 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.

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. 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 des Englischen. In: Ralf Klabunde, Wiltrud Mihatsch & Stefanie Dipper (eds.) Linguistik im Sprachvergleich. Germanistik – Romanistik – Anglistik. Berlin: Springer, 155-187.

2021

• Härtl, Holden & Tatjana Bürger (2021) 'Well, that’s just great!' – An empirically based analysis of 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. U Osnabrück / HU 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 Berichte Sonderhefte 22 (Ed. by Franz d' Avis und 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) Situationsargumente von Nicht-Köpfen: Verb-Nomen-Komposita im Zusammenspiel von Morphologie, Syntax und Pragmatik. In: Christian Fortmann, Anja Lübbe & Irene Rapp (eds.) Situationsargumente im Nominalbereich. 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.) Eigentlichkeit - Zum Verhältnis von Sprache, Sprechern und Welt. 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) Ereigniskonzeptualisierung im Zweitspracherwerb - Thinking for Speaking im Vergleich von Muttersprachlern und Lernern. 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.

​ 1998 - 2009

• Härtl, Holden (2009) Linguistische Relativität und die 'Sprache-und-Denken'-Debatte. Implikationen, Probleme und mögliche Lösungen aus Sicht der kognitionswissenschaftlichen Linguistik. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik 51, 45-81.
• Härtl, Holden (2007) Lexikalische Blockierung und die grammatischen Folgen bei Kopula-Konstruktionen mit 'werden'. In: Ljudmila Geist, & Björn Rothstein (eds.) Kopulaverben und Kopulasätze: Intersprachliche und Intrasprachliche Aspekte (= Linguistische Arbeiten), Tübingen: Niemeyer, 117-140.
• Härtl, Holden (2005) *nackt werden. The combinatorial restrictions of the German copula werden and the notion of control. Linguistische Berichte 203, 349-381.
• Tappe, Heike, Holden Härtl & Susan Olsen (2004) Thematic information, argument structure, and discourse adaptation in language production. In: Thomas Pechmann & Christopher Habel (eds.) Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language Production, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 139-172.
• Härtl, Holden (2003) Conceptual and grammatical characteristics of argument alternations. The case of decausative verbs. Linguistics 41.5, 883-916.
• Härtl, Holden (2003) The conceptual inactiveness of implicit arguments. Evidence from particle verbs and object categorization. Journal of Semantics 20-1, 1-33.
• Tappe, Heike & Holden Härtl (2003) Mediating between concepts and language. Processing structures. In: Holden Härtl, & Heike Tappe (eds.) Mediating between Concepts and Grammar (= Trends in Linguistics 152), Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1-36.
• Härtl, Holden (2001) Mapping conceptual onto grammatical structures. The case of psych-verbs. In: Nicole Dehé, & Anja Wanner (eds.) Structural Aspects of Semantically Complex Verbs, Frankfurt/New York: Lang, 191-217.
• Witt, James & Holden Härtl (1998) Lokale Konzepte und Partikelverben in einem Modell der Sprachproduktion. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 17-1, 3-34.

Proceedings

• Schlechtweg, Marcel & Holden Härtl (2016) The lexicalization of complex constructions: An analysis of adjective-noun combinations. In: Online-Proceedings of the 10th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM10), Haifa (Israel), September 7-9, 2015.
• Härtl, Holden (2012) Pitfalls in the Language-Thought Distinction: a View on Studies of Linguistic Relativity. In: U. Schmid et al. (eds.) Proceedings of KogWis2012. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 14.
• Böer, Katja, Sven Kotowski & Holden Härtl (2012) Nominal composition and the demarcation between morphology and syntax: Grammatical, variational, and cognitive factors. In: M. Fludernik & B. Kohlmann (2012, eds.) Anglistentag 2011 - Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 63-74.
• Härtl, Holden (1999) 'fürchten' vs. 'ängstigen'. Thematische Rollen und Ereignisstrukturen psychischer Verben in einem Modell der Sprachproduktion. In: I. Wachsmuth & B. Jung (eds.) KogWis 99: Proceedings der 4. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kog.-wissenschaft. St. Augustin: Infix, 1999.

Reviews

• Härtl, Holden (2009) Review of Alexiadou, A. et al. (2007) "Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective", Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft 1, 1-9.
• Härtl, Holden (1997) Review of Fortmann, C. (1996) "Konstituentenbewegung in der DP-Struktur.", Tübingen: Niemeyer, Journal of Germanic Linguistics 10-1, 129-136.