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Deep dives into big data

The six articles in this special issue are exemplary studies that profile the current state-of-the art in cognitive linguistics, namely the synthesis of quantitative and qualitative linguistic analysis. This introduction is an opportunity to take stock of where cognitive linguistics started out, what kinds of approaches have been developed, and how we have arrived at a synthesis in which empirical exploration informs the interpretation of language phenomena.