ABSTRACT

This book builds on Baker and Egbert’s previous work on triangulating methodological approaches in corpus linguistics and takes triangulation one step further to highlight its broader applicability when implemented with other linguistic research methods. The volume showcases research methods from other linguistic disciplines and draws on ten empirical studies from a range of topics in psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, and discourse analysis to demonstrate how these methods might be most effectively triangulated with corpus-linguistic methods. A concluding chapter synthesizes these findings as a means of pointing the way toward future directions for triangulation and its implications for future linguistic research. The combined effect reveals the potential for the triangulation of these methods to not only enhance rigor in empirical linguistic research but also our understanding of linguistic phenomena and variation by studying them from multiple perspectives, making this book essential reading for graduate students and researchers in corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, and discourse analysis.

chapter 1|21 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|33 pages

Working at the Interface of Hydrology and Corpus Linguistics

Using Corpora to Identify Droughts in Nineteenth-Century Britain

chapter 6|22 pages

Examining Vocabulary Acquisition Through Word Associations

Triangulating the Psycholinguistic and Corpus-Based Approaches

chapter 7|22 pages

If Olive Oil Is Made of Olives, then What’s Baby Oil Made of?

The Shifting Semantics of Noun+Noun Sequences in American English

chapter 9|20 pages

Priming of Syntactic Alternations by Learners of English

An Analysis of Sentence-Completion and Collostructional Results

chapter 10|29 pages

Usage-Based Theories of Construction Grammar

Triangulating Corpus Linguistics and Psycholinguistics

chapter 11|15 pages

Synthesis and Conclusion