Corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and cognitive/psycholinguistics: Towards more and more fruitful exchanges

Abstract

This article discusses my version of corpus linguistics, its relation to what I think are neighboring fields (mainly cognitive and psycholinguistics), how corpus linguistics can and should enter into more mutually beneficial relations with these fields, and the from my perspective most promising contemporary cognitive and psycholinguistic approach that provides a natural point of connection to corpus-based approaches.

Causality and subjectivity in discourse: The meaning and use of causal connectives in spontaneous conversation, chat interactions and written text

“…Such methods allow us to test whether these characteristics help to distinguish between two Dutch backward causal connectives, omdat and want, and to what extent the differences be tween these two connectives are determined by the context in which they occur. Thus we follow Gries (2012), who strongly advocates using corpus data in devel oping "a psycholinguistically informed, (cognitivelyinspired) usagebased lin guistics which should be located, firmly and deliberately, in the social/behavioral sciences". The integrative empirical approach that we develop provides us with new insights into the notion of subjectivity.…”

Complementarity of Space and Time in Distance Representations

“…Gries, 2003Gries, , 2006Gries & Divjak, 2009), views corpus linguistics as a crucial element of the modern cognitively-inspired language investigations. He does not, however, favor using corpora as the sole source of evidence in linguistics, but instead advocates for more fruitful exchanges among corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and psycholinguistics (Gilquin & Gries, 2009;Gries, 2012).…”

The argument structure of psych-verbs: A quantitative corpus study on cognitive entrenchment

“…However, most linguists using the concept of entrenchment agree that there is a strong connection between quantitative corpus data and cognitive processes (cf. Schmid 2010, Blumenthal-Drame 2012, Gries 2012b. Since I will not be discussing data from experimental studies in this paper, I shall leave the exact nature of the relationship between data from corpus and experimental studies open.…”