Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

Within cognitive linguistics, there is an increasing awareness that the study of linguistic
phenomena needs to be grounded in usage. Ideally, research in cognitive linguistics should …

The notion of causation is a fundamental one. Lakoff & Johnson (1980: 69) see it as a “basic
human concept”, one which is used by people to “organize their physical and cultural …

The aim of the series is to publish theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary research on the
effective use of metaphor in language and other modalities (including, for instance, visuals) …

What do speakers of a language have to know, and what can they'figure out'on the basis of
that knowledge, in order for them to use their language successfully? This is the question at …

An important subset of the empirical research conducted within usage-based construction
grammar is formed by alternation studies. Still, it is not always clear what exactly qualifies as …

This chapter examines the types of data used in constructionist approaches and the
parameters along which data types can be classified. It discusses different kinds of …

Since the late 1980s, collocations have received increasing attention in applied linguistics,
especially language teaching, as is evidenced by the many publications on the topic. These …

The study of polysemy has a venerable tradition in Cognitive Linguistics. 1 Since the
pioneering of work of Dirven (1981), Radden (1981), Brugman (1983), Lindner (1983), and …

The use of corpora in semantic research is a rapidly developing method. However, the
range of quantitative techniques employed in the field can make it difficult for the non …