Hans-Jörg Schmid, Full Professor of English Linguistics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich

Hans-Jörg Schmid is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. He has taught at Westfield College, London, and at the universities of Dresden, Bochum, and Bayreuth. His research has been devoted to a wide range of fields in linguistics including lexical semantics, grammar, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, word-formation, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic theory. His recent publications include English Morphology and Word-Formation (3rd edition; Erich Schmidt, 2016) and, as editor, Entrenchment and the Psychology of Language Learning: How We Reorganize and Adapt Linguistic Knowledge (APA/De Gruyter 2017), Cognitive Pragmatics: Handbooks of Pragmatics Volume 4 (De Gruyter 2012), and Constructions - Collocations - Patterns (with Thomas Herbst and Susen Faulhaber; De Gruyter 2014).

"...the book provides a comprehensive definition of what the language system is and where it locates" - Kun Yang and Fei Wang, Southwest Universuty, Cognitive Linguistic Studies - John Benjamins Publishing Company

"this book is groundbreaking because it is a usage-based account of the linguistic system... Scholars can apply Schmid's model as a theoretical framework for a whole range of empirical studies." - Shuang Zhang, Huping Zhang, and Philippe Humblé, Review of Cognitive Linguistics

"This is a ground-breaking magnum opus and a cornerstone of future linguistic thinking and theorizing." - Edgar W. Schneider, English Language and Linguistics

"The Dynamics of the Linguistic System: Usage, Conventionalization, and Entrenchment...pioneers the systematic examination of how usage, conventionalization and entrenchment interact to create the linguistic system....Put at its briefest, Schmid proposes the EC-Model by analogizing the way language works as a Tinguely machine, contributing to our understanding of the nature and location of the linguistic system. The theoretical and methodological implications of the model are worth exploring by scholars in many fields, such as functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, socio-linguistics, psycho-linguistics, etc." - Xiaoming Dong, Harbin Engineering University, China, Journal of Pragmatics