[Lexicog] corpus + cognitive linguistics. WAS: Interesting lexical discoveries

[Dirk Geeraerts]

Dear Murray,

At 3-2-2004 14:23, you wrote:
>Do you, or anyone else, know of anyone combining corpus linguistics with the
>cognitive linguistics of Langacker, Taylor, et al?

Corpus materials have been used in Cognitive Linguistics from very early 
on, but perhaps more so in studies by European scholars than in those by US 
linguists. Also, these earlier studies are mostly "corpus illustrated" 
rather than "corpus driven". In recent years, the interest in a more 
systematic exploitation of large text corpus has definitely grown. There 
are currently two groups that make use of advanced corpus techniques: on 
the one hand, Stefan Gries and Anatol Stefanowitsch (who will be launching 
a new journal "Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory" in the near 
future), and on the other, my own research group ("Quantitative Lexicology 
and Variational Linguistics", with Dirk Speelman, Stefan Grondelaers and a 
number of PhD's: see http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/gling/team.htm).

Yours,
Dirk Geeraerts


Dirk Geeraerts
Professor

University of Leuven
Departement Linguïstiek
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21
B-3000 Leuven, België

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e-mail: dirk.geeraerts at arts.kuleuven.ac.be
website: http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/gling/ 


 

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