TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Zeschel, Arne A1 - Arppe, Antti A1 - Gilquin, Gaëtanelle A1 - Glynn, Dylan A1 - Hilpert, Martin T1 - Cognitive Corpus Linguistics: Five points of debate on current theory and methodology JF - Corpora N2 - 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 be based on authentic language use, its results should be replicable, and its claims falsifiable. Consequently, more and more studies now turn to corpora as a source of data. While corpus-based methodologies have increased in sophistication, the use of corpus data is also associated with a number of unresolved problems. The study of cognition through off-line linguistic data is, arguably, indirect, even if such data fulfils desirable qualities such as being natural, representative and plentiful. Several topics in this context stand out as particularly pressing issues. This discussion note addresses (1) converging evidence from corpora and experimentation, (2) whether corpora mirror psychological reality, (3) the theoretical value of corpus linguistic studies of ‘alternations’, (4) the relation of corpus linguistics and grammaticality judgments, and, lastly, (5) the nature of explanations in cognitive corpus linguistics. We do not claim to resolve these issues nor to cover all possible angles; instead, we strongly encourage reactions and further discussion. KW - Korpus KW - Statistische Linguistik KW - Methodologie KW - Kognitive Linguistik Y1 - 2010 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-65141 SN - 1755-1676 SS - 1755-1676 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3366/E1749503210000341 DO - https://doi.org/10.3366/E1749503210000341 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 27 PB - Edinburgh University Press CY - Edinburgh ER -