H-J. Schmid. The dynamics of the linguistic system: Usage, conventionalization, and entrenchment. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Reviewed by

Shuang Zhang | Northeast Normal University

Huiping Zhang | Northeast Normal University

Philippe Humblé | Free University of Brussels

Published online: 24 May 2022

https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00112.zha

Article outline

Part I.Usage and its potential to feed into conventionalization and entrenchment. (Chapters Two through Six)
Part II.Conventionalization. (Chapters Seven through Ten)
Part III.Entrenchment. (Chapters Eleven through Fifteen)
Part IV.Synopsis: The EC-Model as a complex-adaptive model. (Chapters Sixteen through Twenty)
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