Cognitive Linguistics, the branch of linguistics that tries to "make one's account of human language accord with what is generally known about the mind and the

This book focuses on matching theoretical predictions about language and cognition against empirical language data. The contributions use corpus linguistics met

Corpus linguistics has had a revolutionary impact on grammar and discourse research. Not only has it opened up entirely new theoretical perspectives and methodo

Corpora are used widely in linguistics, but not always wisely. This book attempts to frame corpus linguistics systematically as a variant of the observational m

The papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to co