Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann

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Veröffentlichungen

Bücher
  1. under contract. Linguistic Creativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. under contract. with Mark Turner. Creative Construction Grammar. (Cambridge Elements in Cognitive Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  3. 2024. with Thomas Herbst. A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – A Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis.
  4. 2023. with Tiago Timponi Torrent, Arthur Lorenzi Almeida and Mark Turner. Copilots for Linguists: AI, Constructions, and Frames. (Cambridge Elements in Construction Grammar). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  5. 2022. Construction Grammar: The Structure of English. (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  6. 2021. The Cognitive Foundation Of Post-colonial Englishes: Construction Grammar as the Cognitive Theory for the Dynamic Model. (Cambridge Elements in World Englishes). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  7. 2019. English Comparative Correlatives: Diachronic and Synchronic Variation at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface. (Studies in English Language.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  8. 2011. Preposition Placement in English: A Usage-based Approach. (Studies in English Language.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sammelbände
  1. 2022. with Aloysius Ngefac and Hans-Georg Wolf, eds. World Englishes and Creole Languages Today. Vol. 1: The Schneiderian Thinking and Beyond. München: Lincom. 
  2. 2022. with Aloysius Ngefac and Hans-Georg Wolf, eds. World Englishes and Creole Languages Today. Vol. 2: The Bobdian Thinking and Beyond. München: Lincom. 
  3. 2020. Construction Grammar and Creativity. Special Issue of Cognitive Semiotics.
  4. 2020. with Marina Fleck and Tobias Hirschmüller, eds. Populismus: Kontroversen und Perspektiven – Ein wissenschaftliches Gesprächsangebot. München: Akademischen Verlagsgemeinschaft München.
  5. 2018. eds. Linguistic Creativity. Special Issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 66(3).
  6. 2017. with A. Bergs, eds. Cognitive Approaches to the History of English. Special Issue of English Language and Linguistics 21(2).
  7. 2014. with Sarah Buschfeld, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch, eds. The Evolution of Englishes The Dynamic Model and beyond. (Varieties of English Around the World G49.) Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 
  8. 2013. with G. Trousdale, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  9. 2011. with G. Trousdale, eds. Variation, Change and Constructions in English. Special Issue of Cognitive Linguistics 22(1).
  10. 2009. with L. Siebers, eds. World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects. (Varieties of English Around the World G40.) Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Artikel in Fachzeitschriften
  1. 2023. Constructicon in progress: A short introduction to the constructionist approach to syntactic analysis (CASA). Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 11.1: 7-22.
  2. 2022. with G. Trousdale. On multiple paths and change in the language network. Zeitschrift Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 70,3.
  3. 2022. Constructionist approaches to creativity. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 10,1: 259-284.
  4. 2021. with H. Böttger, D. Költzsch, S. Stadler-Heer. 2021. Draußen lehren und lernen. Die Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt bereitet  eine Outdoor Faculty vor. Wie das geht und was geplant ist. Deutsche Universitätszeitung DUZ / Wissenschaft & Management 03/2021: 30-33.
  5. 2020. What would it take for us to abandon construction Grammar? Falsifiability, confirmation bias and the future of the constructionist enterprise. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34: 149–161.
  6. 2020.  Construction Grammar and Creativity: Evolution, psychology and cognitive science. Special Issue of Cognitive Semiotics.
  7. 2020.  Speakers are creative – within limits: Response to Creative Intentions – The fine line between ‘creative’ and ‘wrong’. Special Issue of Cognitive Semiotics.
  8. 2020. with Eva-Maria Bauer. Turns out is not Ellipsis: A Usage-based Construction Grammar view on reduced constructions. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 52,2: :240-259.
  9. 2020. with Thomas Brunner and Jakob Horsch. English Comparative Correlative Constructions: A Usage-based Account. Open Linguistics 6: 196-215. 
  10. 2020. Marginal Argument Structure constructions: The [V the Ntaboo-word out of]-construction in Post-colonial Englishes.. Linguistics Vanguard 6(1) .
  11. 2020. with Thomas Brunner. The way construction in World Englishes. English World-Wide 41(1): 1-36. 
  12. 2019. Language and Creativity: A Construction Grammar approach to linguistic creativity. Linguistics Vanguard 5(1) .
  13. 2019. with Jakob Horsch and Thomas Brunner. The More Data, The Better: A Usage-based Account of the English Comparative Correlative Construction. Cognitive Linguistics 30(1): 1-36.
  14. 2018. Creativity and Construction Grammar: Cognitive and Psychological Issues. Special Issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 66(3): 259–276.
  15. 2018. with Thomas Herbst. Construction Grammar for students: A Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis (CASA). Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 6(1): 197–218. 
  16. 2018. with Alexander Bergs. A Construction Grammar Approach to Genre. CogniTextes 18 .
  17. 2018. with Moritz Köster, Caspar Mathias Goeke, Bongkoch Goeke and Kai Kaspar. Auditory Information Supports the Learning Transfer from L2 to L3 Tonal Languages. Current Psychology .
  18. 2018. 'Too many Americans are trapped in fear, violence and poverty': A psychology-informed sentiment analysis of campaign speeches from the 2016 US Presidential Election. Linguistics Vanguard 4(1) .
  19. 2017. Construction Grammar as Cognitive Structuralism: The interaction of constructional networks and processing in the diachronic evolution of English Comparative Correlatives. Special Issue of English Language and Linguistics 21(2): 349-373.
  20. 2017. with A. Bergs. Introduction: Cognitive approaches to the history of English. Special Issue of English Language and Linguistics 21(2): 193-202.
  21. 2017. Multimodal Constructs – Multimodal Constructions? The Role of Constructions in the Working Memory. Linguistics Vanguard 3(1) 
  22. 2016. with Nikki van de Pol. With or Without with: The Constructionalization of the with-Augmented Absolute in English. Journal of English Linguistics 44(4): 318-345.
  23. 2015. Cognitive Sociolinguistic Aspects of Football Chants: The Role of Social and Physical Context in Usage-based Construction Grammar. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 63(3): 273-294.
  24. 2011. with G. Trousdale. Variation, Change and Constructions in English: Introduction. Cognitive Linguistics 22(1): 1–23.
  25. 2011. Never end a sentence with a preposition! That is something up with which I will not put!. Cambridge Extra at the LinguistList
  26. 2011. The Black Kenyan English vowel system: An acoustic phonetic analysis. English World-Wide 32(2): 147-173.
  27. 2007. 'Good is good and bad is bad': But how do we know which one we had? Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 3(1): 87-98.
  28. 2007. Complements versus adjuncts: A Construction Grammar approach of English prepositional phrases. Occasional Papers in Language and Linguistics (University of Nairobi) 3: 92-119.
  29. 2006. Corpora and introspection as corroborating evidence: The case of preposition placement in English relative clauses. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2(2): 165-195.
  30. 2005. Variable vs. categorical effects: Preposition pied piping and stranding in British English relative clauses. Journal of English Linguistics 33(3): 257-297.
Artikel in Sammelbänden
  1. 2023. with Alexander Bergs. Constructions all the way! Text types as constructions. In: Anja Hennemann and Felix Tacke, eds. Konstruktionen, Kontexte, Gattungen / Constructions, Contexts, Genres. (Sprache in kulturellen Kontexten / Language in Cultural Contexts.) Bonn: Bonn University Press, 255–277. 
  2. 2022. with Thomas Brunner. Construction Grammar meets the Dynamic Model. In: Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf and Thomas Hoffmann, eds. World Englishes and Creole Languages Today. Vol. 1: The Schneiderian Thinking and Beyond & Vol. 2: The Bobdian Thinking and Beyond. München: Lincom, 25-38.
  3. 2022. with Aloysius Ngefac and Hans-Georg Wolf. World Englishes and creole languages today: Introduction. In: Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf and Thomas Hoffmann, eds. World Englishes and Creole Languages Today. Vol. 1: The Schneiderian Thinking and Beyond & Vol. 2: The Bobdian Thinking and Beyond. München: Lincom, 5-24. 
  4. 2022. with Aloysius Ngefac and Hans-Georg Wolf. Laudatio for Edgar W. Schneider. In: Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf and Thomas Hoffmann, eds. World Englishes and Creole Languages Today. Vol. 1: The Schneiderian Thinking and Beyond. München: Lincom, 3-4. 
  5. 2022. with Aloysius Ngefac and Hans-Georg Wolf. Laudatio for Augustin Simo Bobda. In: Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf and Thomas Hoffmann, eds. World Englishes and Creole Languages Today. Vol. 2: The Bobdian Thinking and Beyond. München: Lincom, 3-4. 
  6. 2022. with Aloysius Ngefac and Hans-Georg Wolf. Editors' preface. In: Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf and Thomas Hoffmann, eds. World Englishes and Creole Languages Today. Vol. 1: The Schneiderian Thinking and Beyond & Vol. 2: The Bobdian Thinking and Beyond. München: Lincom, 1-2. 
  7. 2021. Multimodal Construction Grammar: From multimodal constructs to multimodal constructions. In: Xu Wen and John R. Taylor, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. New York: Routledge, 78-92.
  8. 2020. Die Sprache der Populisten. In: Marina Fleck, Tobias Hirschmüller and Thomas Hoffmann, eds. Populismus: Kontroversen und Perspektiven – Ein wissenschaftliches Gesprächsangebot. München: Akademischen Verlagsgemeinschaft München, 55-74.
  9. 2020. with Marina Fleck and Tobias Hirschmüller. Populismus: Kontroversen und Perspektiven – eine Hinführung. In: Marina Fleck, Tobias Hirschmüller and Thomas Hoffmann, eds. Populismus: Kontroversen und Perspektiven – Ein wissenschaftliches Gesprächsangebot. München: Akademischen Verlagsgemeinschaft München, 9-20.
  10. 2020. with Marina Fleck and Tobias Hirschmüller. Vorwort. In: Marina Fleck, Tobias Hirschmüller and Thomas Hoffmann, eds. Populismus: Kontroversen und Perspektiven – Ein wissenschaftliches Gesprächsangebot. München: Akademischen Verlagsgemeinschaft München, 7-8.
  11. 2018. Comparing Comparative Correlatives: The German vs. English construction network. In: H. C. Boas and A. Ziem, eds. Constructional Approaches to Argument Structure in German. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  12. 2017. From constructions to Construction Grammar. In: Barbara Dancygier, ed. The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 284-309.
  13. 2017. Construction Grammars. In: Barbara Dancygier, ed. The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 310-329.
  14. 2014. with Alexander Bergs. Are you a construction in disguise? - Soziale und physische Kontexteigenschaften von Fußballgesangskonstruktionen. In: A. Ziem und Alexander Lasch, eds. Konstruktionsgrammatik IV: Konstruktionen als soziale Konventionen und kognitive Routinen. Tübingen. Stauffenburg, 115-131.
  15. 2014. The cognitive evolution of Englishes: The role of constructions in the Dynamic Model. In Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch, eds. The Evolution of Englishes The Dynamic Model and beyond. (Varieties of English Around the World G49.) Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 160-180.
  16. 2014. with Sarah Buschfeld, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch. The evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond. In Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch, eds. The Evolution of Englishes The Dynamic Model and beyond. (Varieties of English Around the World G49.) Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1-17.
  17. 2014. with Sarah Buschfeld, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch. Editors’ preface. In Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch, eds. The Evolution of Englishes The Dynamic Model and beyond. (Varieties of English Around the World G49.) Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, xi-xviii.
  18. 2013. with Meike Pfaff and Alexander Bergs. I was just reading this article – On the expression of Recentness and the English Past Progressive. In: B. Aarts, J. Close, G. Leech and S. Wallis, eds. The English Verb Phrase: Corpus Methodology and Current Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 217-238.
  19. 2013. Obtaining introspective acceptability judgements. In: M. Krug und J. Schlüter, eds. Research Methods in Language Variation and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  20. 2013. Abstract phrasal and clausal constructions. In: G. Trousdale and Th. Hoffmann, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 307-328.
  21. 2013. with G. Trousdale. Construction Grammar: Introduction. In: G. Trousdale and Th. Hoffmann, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-12.
  22. 2013. The following entries in Christa Dürscheid und Stefan Schierholz, eds. Syntax. (Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 1.2). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter: "Adkopulaphrase", "Adverbialphrase", "Agreement-Phrase", "Apokoinukonstruktion", "Artikelphrase", "Determinansphrase", "Koinon", "Kopfbewegung", "Präpositionalphrase", "Verbalphrase".
  23. 2010. White Kenyan English. In: D. Schreier, P. Trudgill, E. Schneider and J.P. Williams, Hrsg. The Lesser-known Varieties of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 286-312.
  24. 2009. with L. Siebers. World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Introduction. In: Th. Hoffmann and L. Siebers, Hrsg. World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects. (Varieties of English Around the World G40.) Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, xv–xx.
  25. 2008. English relative clauses and Construction Grammar: A topic which preposition placement can shed light on?. In G. Trousdale and N. Gisborne, Hrsg. Constructional Explanations in English Grammar. Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 77-112.
  26. 2007. 'I need data which I can rely on': Corroborating empirical evidence on preposition placement in English relative clauses. S. Featherston and W. Sternefeld, Hrsg. Roots: Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 161-183.
Rezensionen
  1. 2018. Barðdal, Jóhanna, Elena Smirnova, Lotte Sommerer, and Spike Gildea (eds). 2015. Diachronic Construction Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. In: Constructions and Frames 10:1:106-114
  2. 2017. Debra Ziegeler. 2015. Converging grammars: Constructions in Singapore English. (Language Contact and Bilingualism 11). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp. xiv + 294. ISBN 9781614514091. In: English Language and Linguistics.
  3. 2013. Joybrato Mukherjee & Magnus Huber (eds.). 2012. Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Theory and Description. Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics 75. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 258 pp. In: Anglia 131,2-3: 1-4.
  4. 2012. Alexander Clark, Chris Fox, and Shalom Lappin, eds. 2010. The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, eLANGUAGE http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=2138
  5. 2012. Peter Auer and Stefan Pfänder, eds. 2011. Constructions: Emerging and Emergent. (Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies 6.) Berlin: De Gruyter. Mouton. LINGUISTlist http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-1581.html
  6. 2012. Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner, eds. 2010. Syntactic Variation and Genre. (Topics in English linguistics 70.) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. eLANGUAGE http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=2183
  7. 2011. Stefan Sudhoff. 2010. Focus particles in German: Syntax, Prosody, and Information Structure. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 151.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. eLANGUAGE. http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?cat=185
  8. 2011. Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Nicole Dehé, and Anne Wichmann, eds. 2009. Where prosody meets pragmatics. (Studies in Pragmatics 8.) Bingley, UK: Emerald. eLANGUAGE http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=1616
  9. 2010. Daniel Schreier. 2008. St Helenian English: Origins, Evolution and Variation. (Varieties of English around the world G37.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. eLANGUAGE. http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=937
  10. 2010. Martin Hilpert. 2008. Germanic Future Constructions: A Usage-based Approach to Language Change. (Constructional approaches to language 7.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. eLANGUAGE. http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=933
  11. 2010. Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves, and Martin Warren. 2008. A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (prosodic). (Studies in corpus linguistics 32.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. eLANGUAGE http://www.elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=919
  12. 2009. Sebastian M. Rasinger, 2008. Quantitative Research in Linguistics. (Research Methods in Linguistics.) London: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. LINGUIST List 20.4225 http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-4225.html
  13. 2009. Rajend Mesthrie and Rakesh M. Bhatt. 2008. World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties. (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. LINGUIST List 20.1355. http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-1355.html
  14. 2005. John C. Paolillo, Analyzing Linguistic Variation: Statistical Models and Methods. Stanford, California: CSLI Publications. Journal of Sociolinguistics 9,2: 293-298.