Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as
an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant …

Statistics lies at the heart of scientific investigation. It helps the researcher to formulate and
test theoretical hypotheses, making generalizations about a population of interest based on …

Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a
number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle …

'Metonymy'is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of
shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words …

Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers'
minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge …

Most current accounts of language comprehension agree on a role for prediction, but they
disagree on the importance of domain-general executive resources in predictive behavior. In …

This article is a survey of quantitative research on the choice between the s-genitive and the
of-genitive in English. It provides a detailed and critical review of the methodological …

It is one of the central claims of construction grammar that constructions are organized in
some kind of network, commonly referred to as the constructicon. In the classical model of …

In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of
language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book …

We sketch a project that marries probabilistic grammar research to scholarship on World
Englishes, thus synthesizing two previously rather disjoint lines of research into one unifying …