The Editors: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is Professor Ordinarius and Chair of English Language and Applied Linguistics at Łódź University. Her research interests are in cognitive semantics and pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and their applications.Katarzyna Dziwirek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic at the University of Washington. Her research interests focus on syntax, morphology and cross-cultural semantics, especially cross-linguistic variation in expression of emotion.

• Contents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk/Katarzyna Dziwirek: Emergence of Cognitive Corpus Linguistics – Piotr Pęzik: Extraction of multiword expressions for corpus-based discourse analysis – Galina I. Kustova/Olga N. Lashevskaja/Elena V. Paducheva/Ekaterina V. Rakhilina: Verb Taxonomy: From theoretical lexical semantics to practice of corpus tagging – Karen Sullivan: Grammatical constructions in metaphoric language – Monika Kopytowska: Corpus linguistics and an eclectic approach to the study of news - the mechanism of framing – Hanna Pułaczewska: Syntactic reduplication as an ironically-driven pragmatic principle in the spoken language – Kamila Turewicz: A Cognitive Grammar perspective on Jennifer Coates’s findings on the semantics of English modals – Eliza Kitis: Emotions as discursive constructs: The case of the psych-verb ‘fear’ – Agnieszka Kaleta: English aspectual verbs and their complements: The case of ‘begin’ – Lily I-wen Su/Louis Wei-lun Lu: A new look at analogous words: A corpus-based approach – Giuliano Fiorentino: The ordering of adverbial and main clauses in spoken and written Italian – Jerzy Gaszewski: Polish particles tak and nie as polysemous words: A corpus-driven study – Martine Delorge: A diachronic corpus study of the constructional behavior of verbs of reception in Dutch – Dagmar Divjak/Stefan Th. Gries: Corpus-based cognitive semantics: A contrastive study of phrasal verbs in English and Russian – Katarzyna Dziwirek/Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: ‘Love and hate’ - Unique transitive emotions in Polish and English – Mikołaj Deckert: Pleonasms - from cognition to translation – Hu Ying-Huseh/Ho Yi-Chen: Prepositions we live by: Implications of the polysemy network in teaching English prepositions in and on – Anna Turula: Extensive study of an Anglophone film corpus as a way of implicit learning complex FL grammar – Irena Czwenar: The growth of grammatical complexity in the spoken language of adult learners of English.

«In this collection of eighteen papers, the editors introduce and richly illustrate a field of study they call Cognitive Corpus Linguistics. The papers combine the insights and interests of cognitive linguists with the techniques and quantitative methods familiar to corpus linguists. Taken together, these papers constitute, in effect, a user’s manual of corpus-based cognitive linguistic practice. The appearance of this volume could not be more timely, with both cognitive linguistics and corpus linguistics attracting more interest than ever.» (Professor John Newman, University of Alberta)