Hans-Jörg Schmid
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans-Jörg Schmid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans-Jörg |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmid |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMID H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8597-5103 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Must-have, want-to-have and nice-to have formulaicity plus formulaic syntax: Suggestions for L2 learning and teaching of multi-word units based on frequency, idiomaticity and syntagmatic cohesion
Objectives: Mastery of formulaic language holds great potential for improving L2 learners’ fluency. However, the field of formulaic language is internally heterogeneous and externally fuzzy. It remains unclear what types of formulaic language deserve special attention in L2 learning and teaching and whether formulaic sequences are to be demarcated from recurrent lexicogrammatical patterns based on compositional syntax. I investigate how semantic …
A Model of Attitudinal Reasons for Neologism Use
How do speakers think and feel about neologisms? And how do these thoughts and feelings affect speakers’ desire to use a neologism? In the present work, we synthesized existing literature on speakers’ intrapersonal reasons for neologism use. From this synthesis, we derived a model of speaker attitudes about neologisms consisting of three core factors—efficiency, extravagance, and extralinguistic relevance. In three studies, we then empirically as…
The Dynamics of the Linguistic System: Usage, Conventionalization, and Entrenchment
This book develops a model of language which can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. Its core idea is that linguistic structure is not stable and uniform, but continually refreshed and in fact reconstituted by the feedback-loop interaction of three components: usage, i.e. the interpersonal and cognitive activities of speakers in concrete communication; conventionalization, i.e. the social processes takin…
Ein integratives soziokognitives Modell des dynamischen Lexikons
Dieser Beitrag liefert eine Skizze eines gebrauchsbasierten integrativen soziokognitiven Modells des dynamischen Lexikons. Das Modell besteht aus drei Kernkomponenten: Handlungen in der aktuellen Sprachverwendung, kognitiven Prozessen und sozialen Prozessen. Die Komponenten des Modells werden zunächst einzeln beschrieben und dann zusammengefügt. Es wird gezeigt und anhand von zwei Beispielen illustriert, wie das Modell durch die systematische Bes…
Using data-mining to identify and study patterns in lexical innovation on the web: The NeoCrawler
This paper presents the NeoCrawler – a tailor-made webcrawler, which identifies and retrieves neologisms from the Internet and systematically monitors the use of detected neologisms on the web by means of weekly searches. It enables researchers to use the web as a corpus in order to investigate the dynamics of lexical innovation on a large-scale and systematic basis. The NeoCrawler represents an innovative web-mining tool which opens up new oppor…
The dynamics of lexical innovation: Data, methods, models
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Do the meanings of abstract nouns correlate with the meanings of their complementation patterns: A case study on English commissive shell nouns
There is a widespread assumption in Construction Grammar (but also before and elsewhere) that the meanings of verbs correlate with or even determine their complementation forms and patterns. There is much less research on noun complementation, however, although this category is even more interesting for a number of reasons such as the potential for valency reduction, nominal topicalization constructions, and additional complementation options, e.…
Why Cognitive Linguistics must embrace the social and pragmatic dimensions of language and how it could do so more seriously
I will argue that the cognitive-linguistic enterprise should step up its efforts to embrace the social and pragmatic dimensions of language. This claim will be derived from a survey of the premises and promise of the cognitive-linguistic approach to the study of language and be defended in more detail on logical and empirical grounds. Key elements of a usage-based emergentist socio-cognitive approach known as Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization …
Reply to “More (old and new) misunderstandings of collostructional analysis: On Schmid & Küchenhoff” by Stefan Th. Gries
This is a reply to a commentary by Stefan Gries on a paper published by us in this journal in 2013. We focus on explaining the inadequacy of p-values of the Fisher Exact test as a measure of lexicogrammatical attraction and on the cognitive underpinnings of collostructional analysis. In addition, we touch more briefly on further issues, including the marginal conditioning of the Fisher Exact test and the idea of infinite strength of attraction be…
Diminutive verbs in German: Semantic Analysis and Theoretical Implications
Collostructional analysis and other ways of measuring lexicogrammatical attraction: Theoretical premises, practical problems and cognitive underpinnings
Collostructional analysis is a corpus-based quantitative method of measuring the mutual attraction of lexemes and constructions (cf. Stefanowitsch and Gries 2003) which has gained considerable popularity among corpus linguists and especially cognitive linguists with a statistical bent. For many less statistically minded linguists, it has proven rather difficult to evaluate the theoretical background assumptions and cognitive underpinnings of coll…
Is usage more than usage after all? The case of English not that
This paper combines the findings of a detailed corpus study and the results of a small-scale experiment in an attempt to support the idea that grammatical knowledge includes knowledge of usage patterns. The linguistic structures investigated are English not that sentences of the type Other people have friends. I have enemies. Not that I care (example taken from the British National Corpus). An in-depth investigation of 1,759 uses of this structur…
Cognitive Pragmatics
Applied Linguistics; Pragmatics; Cognitive Linguistics
Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Presupposition can be a bluff: How abstract nouns can be used as presupposition triggers
English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells: From Corpus to Cognition
Based on a systematic analysis of a very large corpus, this book introduces a conceptual and terminological framework for the linguistic description of abstract nouns. The uses and meanings of 670 abstract English nouns are described and their semantic, pragmatic, rhetorical, textual and cognitive functions are discussed, always with reference to authentic corpus data. This way a link between the corpus method and functional and cognitive theorie…
Cottage und Co., idea, start vs. begin: Die Kategorisierung Als Grundprinzip Einer Differenzierten Bedeutungsbeschreibung
Why Cognitive Linguistics must embrace the social and pragmatic dimensions of language and how it could do so more seriously
I will argue that the cognitive-linguistic enterprise should step up its efforts to embrace the social and pragmatic dimensions of language. This claim will be derived from a survey of the premises and promise of the cognitive-linguistic approach to the study of language and be defended in more detail on logical and empirical grounds. Key elements of a usage-based emergentist socio-cognitive approach known as Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization …
Collostructional analysis and other ways of measuring lexicogrammatical attraction: Theoretical premises, practical problems and cognitive underpinnings
Collostructional analysis is a corpus-based quantitative method of measuring the mutual attraction of lexemes and constructions (cf. Stefanowitsch and Gries 2003) which has gained considerable popularity among corpus linguists and especially cognitive linguists with a statistical bent. For many less statistically minded linguists, it has proven rather difficult to evaluate the theoretical background assumptions and cognitive underpinnings of coll…
Presupposition can be a bluff: How abstract nouns can be used as presupposition triggers
Reply to “More (old and new) misunderstandings of collostructional analysis: On Schmid & Küchenhoff” by Stefan Th. Gries
This is a reply to a commentary by Stefan Gries on a paper published by us in this journal in 2013. We focus on explaining the inadequacy of p-values of the Fisher Exact test as a measure of lexicogrammatical attraction and on the cognitive underpinnings of collostructional analysis. In addition, we touch more briefly on further issues, including the marginal conditioning of the Fisher Exact test and the idea of infinite strength of attraction be…
Diminutive verbs in German: Semantic Analysis and Theoretical Implications
Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Cottage und Co., idea, start vs. begin: Die Kategorisierung Als Grundprinzip Einer Differenzierten Bedeutungsbeschreibung
English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells: From Corpus to Cognition
Based on a systematic analysis of a very large corpus, this book introduces a conceptual and terminological framework for the linguistic description of abstract nouns. The uses and meanings of 670 abstract English nouns are described and their semantic, pragmatic, rhetorical, textual and cognitive functions are discussed, always with reference to authentic corpus data. This way a link between the corpus method and functional and cognitive theorie…
Presupposition can be a bluff: How abstract nouns can be used as presupposition triggers
Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Cognitive Pragmatics
Applied Linguistics; Pragmatics; Cognitive Linguistics
Collostructional analysis and other ways of measuring lexicogrammatical attraction: Theoretical premises, practical problems and cognitive underpinnings
Collostructional analysis is a corpus-based quantitative method of measuring the mutual attraction of lexemes and constructions (cf. Stefanowitsch and Gries 2003) which has gained considerable popularity among corpus linguists and especially cognitive linguists with a statistical bent. For many less statistically minded linguists, it has proven rather difficult to evaluate the theoretical background assumptions and cognitive underpinnings of coll…
Is usage more than usage after all? The case of English not that
This paper combines the findings of a detailed corpus study and the results of a small-scale experiment in an attempt to support the idea that grammatical knowledge includes knowledge of usage patterns. The linguistic structures investigated are English not that sentences of the type Other people have friends. I have enemies. Not that I care (example taken from the British National Corpus). An in-depth investigation of 1,759 uses of this structur…
Reply to “More (old and new) misunderstandings of collostructional analysis: On Schmid & Küchenhoff” by Stefan Th. Gries
This is a reply to a commentary by Stefan Gries on a paper published by us in this journal in 2013. We focus on explaining the inadequacy of p-values of the Fisher Exact test as a measure of lexicogrammatical attraction and on the cognitive underpinnings of collostructional analysis. In addition, we touch more briefly on further issues, including the marginal conditioning of the Fisher Exact test and the idea of infinite strength of attraction be…
Diminutive verbs in German: Semantic Analysis and Theoretical Implications
Why Cognitive Linguistics must embrace the social and pragmatic dimensions of language and how it could do so more seriously
I will argue that the cognitive-linguistic enterprise should step up its efforts to embrace the social and pragmatic dimensions of language. This claim will be derived from a survey of the premises and promise of the cognitive-linguistic approach to the study of language and be defended in more detail on logical and empirical grounds. Key elements of a usage-based emergentist socio-cognitive approach known as Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization …
Do the meanings of abstract nouns correlate with the meanings of their complementation patterns: A case study on English commissive shell nouns
There is a widespread assumption in Construction Grammar (but also before and elsewhere) that the meanings of verbs correlate with or even determine their complementation forms and patterns. There is much less research on noun complementation, however, although this category is even more interesting for a number of reasons such as the potential for valency reduction, nominal topicalization constructions, and additional complementation options, e.…
Ein integratives soziokognitives Modell des dynamischen Lexikons
Dieser Beitrag liefert eine Skizze eines gebrauchsbasierten integrativen soziokognitiven Modells des dynamischen Lexikons. Das Modell besteht aus drei Kernkomponenten: Handlungen in der aktuellen Sprachverwendung, kognitiven Prozessen und sozialen Prozessen. Die Komponenten des Modells werden zunächst einzeln beschrieben und dann zusammengefügt. Es wird gezeigt und anhand von zwei Beispielen illustriert, wie das Modell durch die systematische Bes…
Using data-mining to identify and study patterns in lexical innovation on the web: The NeoCrawler
This paper presents the NeoCrawler – a tailor-made webcrawler, which identifies and retrieves neologisms from the Internet and systematically monitors the use of detected neologisms on the web by means of weekly searches. It enables researchers to use the web as a corpus in order to investigate the dynamics of lexical innovation on a large-scale and systematic basis. The NeoCrawler represents an innovative web-mining tool which opens up new oppor…
The dynamics of lexical innovation: Data, methods, models
Preview this article: The dynamics of lexical innovation, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/pc.00004.int-1.gif
The Dynamics of the Linguistic System: Usage, Conventionalization, and Entrenchment
This book develops a model of language which can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. Its core idea is that linguistic structure is not stable and uniform, but continually refreshed and in fact reconstituted by the feedback-loop interaction of three components: usage, i.e. the interpersonal and cognitive activities of speakers in concrete communication; conventionalization, i.e. the social processes takin…
A Model of Attitudinal Reasons for Neologism Use
How do speakers think and feel about neologisms? And how do these thoughts and feelings affect speakers’ desire to use a neologism? In the present work, we synthesized existing literature on speakers’ intrapersonal reasons for neologism use. From this synthesis, we derived a model of speaker attitudes about neologisms consisting of three core factors—efficiency, extravagance, and extralinguistic relevance. In three studies, we then empirically as…
Must-have, want-to-have and nice-to have formulaicity plus formulaic syntax: Suggestions for L2 learning and teaching of multi-word units based on frequency, idiomaticity and syntagmatic cohesion
Objectives: Mastery of formulaic language holds great potential for improving L2 learners’ fluency. However, the field of formulaic language is internally heterogeneous and externally fuzzy. It remains unclear what types of formulaic language deserve special attention in L2 learning and teaching and whether formulaic sequences are to be demarcated from recurrent lexicogrammatical patterns based on compositional syntax. I investigate how semantic …
Linguistics (14 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Natural language processing (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Grammar (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works)