Converging Evidence

1. Contributors; 2. Preface; 3. Introduction: On evidence and the convergence of evidence in linguistic research (by Schonefeld, Doris); 4. Issues in collecting converging evidence: Is metaphor always a matter of thought? (by Steen, Gerard J.); 5. Part 1. Multi-methodological approaches to constructional and idiomatic meaning; 6. 1.1. Cognition verb constructions; 7. Perception and conception: The 'see x to be y' construction from a cognitive perspective (by Egan, Thomas); 8. Explaining diverging evidence: The case of clause-initial I think (by Kaltenbock, Gunther); 9. 1.2. Constructional alternatives; 10. I am about to die vs. I am going to die: A usage-based comparison between two future-indicating constructions (by Hoche, Silke); 11. Studying syntactic priming in corpora: Implications of different levels of granularity (by Gries, Stefan Th.); 12. Islands of (im)productivity in corpus data and acceptability judgments: Contrasting two potentiality constructions in Dutch (by Backus, Ad); 13. 1.3. Idioms and creative language use; 14. Compositional and embodied meanings of somatisms: A corpus-based approach to phraseologisms (by Ziem, Alexander); 15. Word-formation patterns in a cross-linguistic perspective: Testing predictions for novel object naming in Hungarian and German (by Borgwaldt, Susanne R.); 16. Part 2. Multi-methodological approaches to language acquisition; 17. The interaction of function and input frequency in L1-acquisition: The case of was...fur 'what kind of...' questions in German (by Steinkrauss, Rasmus); 18. Relative clause acquisition and representation: Evidence from spontaneous speech, sentence repetition, and comprehension (by Brandt, Silke); 19. Converging evidence in the typology of motion events: A corpus-based approach to interlanguage (by Reshoft, Nina); 20. Part 3. Multi-methodological approaches to the study of discourse; 21. Differences in the use of emotion metaphors in expert-lay communication: Converging evidence from two complementary studies (by Beger, Anke); 22. Index