Herbert Schendl

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Herbert Schendl (Ph.D. 1971 University of Vienna, "Habilitation" 1985 University of Vienna, "Ao. Univ.-Prof" 1986, "O. Univ.-Prof." 1992 University of Vienna) is professor and chair emeritus for English historical linguistics at the department of English and American studies at the University of Vienna. He has been the fourth "Luick"-Chair and a major proponent of the Vienna School of English Historical Linguisitics (a position that since Schendl's retirement in 2007 has been held by Nikolaus Ritt as the fifth such chair).

Schendl's work spans from Old English to Late Modern English, though his interests include present-day varieties and, not insignificantly, Austrian German (a passion he shares with Karl Luick). He incorporates sociohistorical approaches, e.g. Schendl (1996, 1997, 2012). Presently, Schendl is teaching courses on Old English at the department of English and American studies in Vienna.

Schendl was an innovator in the field of historical code-switching, an area he helped found and bring to prominence from the mid-1990s. His most popular monograph is his introductory book ''Historical Linguistics'', which appeared in 2001 in Oxford University Press' series ''Oxford Introductions to Language Studies'', edited by H. G. Widdowson, and has been translated into a number of languages, and has appeared in China with a Chinese foreword. Provided by Wikipedia