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Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-Driven Approaches

In line with the increasing use of empirical methods in Cognitive Linguistics, the current volume explores the uses of quantitative, in particular corpus-driven, techniques for the study of meaning. It shows how these techniques contribute to the core theoretical issues of Cognitive Semantics as well as how they inform semantic analysis. The research presented in the volume constitutes an important step towards an Empirical Cognitive Semantics.

The Empirical Turn Cognitive linguistics currently experiences a trend towards
the use of empirical methods; it can be observed that conferences fill up
increasingly with empirical studies supporting and extending the conceptual work
in Cognitive Linguistics. At the same time, several volumes with the explicit aim to
lay the foundations for empirical investigations have recently appeared (e.g.
Gries and Stefanowitsch 2006; Kristiansen, Achard, Dirven and Ruiz de Mendoza
Ibáñez 2006; ...