Frontmatter; Table of contents; Corpus-driven Cognitive Semantics. Introduction to the field; Quantitative methods in Cognitive Semantics. Introduction to the volume; Section I Corpus methods in Cognitive Semantics; Section II Advancing the science: Theoretical questions; Section III Advancing the science: Methodological questions; Section IV Towards an empirical Cognitive Semantics; Backmatter
Summary
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
