Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Theory and data in cognitive linguistics -- Gries -- Barðdal et al. -- Patten -- Trousdale -- Gisborne -- Cristofaro -- Hollmann -- Matlock et al. -- References -- Index -- Frequencies, probabilities, and association measures in usage-/exemplar-based linguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Collostructional analysis: A brief overview -- 2.1 Perspective 1: CA and its goals -- 2.2 Perspective 2: CA and its mathematics/computation -- 2.3 Perspective 3: CA and its results, interpretation, and motivation -- 3. Bybee's points of critique -- 3.1 Perspective 1: CA and its goals -- 3.2 Perspective 2: CA and its mathematics/computation -- 3.3 Perspective 3: CA and its results, interpretation, and motivation -- 3.3.1 The perceived lack of semantics -- 3.3.2 The perceived lacks of semantics and discriminatory power -- 3.3.3 The absence of cognitive mechanisms underlying CA -- 4. Clarifications, repudiations, and responses -- 4.1 Perspective 1: CA and its goals -- 4.2 Perspective 2: CA and its mathematics/computation -- 4.2.1 The issue of the corpus size -- 4.2.2 The distribution of pFYE -- 4.3 Perspective 3: CA and its results, interpretation, and motivation -- 4.3.1 The perceived lacks of semantics -- 4.3.2 The perceived lacks of semantics and discriminatory power -- 4.3.3 The absence of cognitive mechanisms underlying CA -- 5. Towards a new empirical perspective and its theoretical implications -- 5.1 A cline of co-occurrence complexity and its motivations/implications -- 5.1.1 Approach 1: Raw frequencies/percentages -- 5.1.2 Approach 2: Association measures -- 5.1.3 Approach 3: Full cross-tabulation -- 5.1.4 Approach 4: Dispersion of (co-)occurrence -- 5.2 Why CA works at all and a brief excursus on Zipf.

5.3 Towards a refined usage-/exemplar-based definition of construction -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References -- Reconstructing constructional semantics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Dative Subject Construction -- 3. Reconstructing semantics -- 4. Comparison of the semantics of the Dative Subject Construction in Old Norse-Icelandic, Archaic/Classical Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian, and Old Lithuanian -- 5. A reconstruction of the semantics of the Dative Subject Construction in Indo-European -- 6. Special characteristics of the Indo-European Dative Subject Construction in the typological landscape -- 7. Summary -- References -- Appendix: Narrowly-circumscribed lexical semantic verb classes -- The historical development of the it-cleft -- 1. Introduction1 -- 2. Theoretical assumptions -- 2.1 Language structure -- 2.2 Language change -- 2.3 Interim summary -- 3. The object of study -- 3.1 An expletive account of it-clefts -- 3.2 An extraposition account of it-clefts -- 4. Sorting the data -- 4.1 Ball's (1991)it-cleft origin story -- 4.2 Patten's (forthcoming) it-cleft origin story -- 4.3 Handling the OE hit-cleft -- 5. Interpreting the data -- 5.1 The diachronic development of the English it-cleft -- 5.2 Ball (1994) and the mergers of the English it-cleft -- 5.3 Patten (2010) and the constructionalization of the English it-cleft -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Theory and data in diachronic Construction Grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2 Free adjuncts, absolutes and the what withpattern in contemporary English -- 2.1 A minimalist analysis -- 2.2 A constructional analysis -- 3. Data on the historical evolution of the what with construction -- 3.1 Up to Modern English -- 3.2 Late Modern English -- 3.2.1 Method -- 3.2.2 Results -- 3.3 Twentieth-century American English (COCA corpus) -- 3.3.1 Method -- 3.3.2 Results.

4 Grammatical constructionalization: A cognitive approach to language change -- 4.1 Summary of the principal changes -- 4.2 Grammatical constructionalization -- 5. Conclusions -- Corpus data -- References -- The semantics of definite expressions and the grammaticalization of THE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two approaches to definiteness. -- 3. Reference -- 4. The familiarity theory of definites -- 5. An alternative theory of definites -- 6. Modelling the quantifier theory in a cognitive theory of language structure -- 7. Comparing the familiarity theory with the quantifier theory -- 7.1 Case study 1: Scope effects -- 7.2 Case study 2: The definiteness effect -- 7.3 Case study 3: Specificational sentences -- 8. The theories and grammaticalization -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Cognitive explanations, distributional evidence, and diachrony -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The development of alignment systems -- 3. The origin of prototype effects -- 4. Concluding remarks -- List of Abbreviations -- References -- Word classes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous scholarship on word classes -- 2.1 The structuralist-generative approach -- 2.2 The cognitive linguistic approach -- 2.2.1 Langacker -- 2.2.2 Croft -- 2.3 Psycholinguistics -- 3. Questionnaire study design -- 3.1 The questionnaire -- 3.2 Participants -- 3.3 Phonological and distributional properties and scoring schemes -- 3.3.1 Phonology -- 3.3.2 Distribution -- 4. Phonological properties -- 4.1 Results -- 4.1.1 Word length -- 4.1.2 Mean syllable length -- 4.1.3 Final obstruent voicing -- 4.1.4 Nasal consonants -- 4.1.5 Stressed vowel advancement -- 4.1.6 Stressed vowel height -- 4.1.7 Presence vs. absence of a final obstruent -- 4.2 Discussion -- 5. Distributional properties -- 5.1 Results -- 5.1.1 Nouns -- 5.1.2 Verbs -- 5.2 Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References.

Smashing new results on aspectual framing -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Aspect -- 2. Experiment -- 2.1 Participants, materials, and methods -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Speech -- 3.2 Gesture -- 4. General discussion -- References.