Thomas Hoffmann

Thomas Hoffmann is Professor and Chair of English Language and Linguistics at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. His main research interests are usage-based Construction Grammar, language variation and change, and multimodal communication. He has published widely in international journals such as Cognitive Linguistics, Journal of English Linguistics, English World-Wide and Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. His 2011 monograph Preposition Placement in English as well as his 2019 book Comparing English Comparatives were both published by Cambridge University Press and he is currently writing a textbook on Construction Grammar: The Structure of English for the Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics series. He is also Area Editor for Syntax of the Linguistics Vanguard and Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access journal Constructions.