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It is exciting to see a collection of papers that provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary Finnish cognitive linguistics. Since the use of empirical methods is of paramount importance for cognitive linguistic theory, this book is an invaluable resource for the international cognitive linguistics community. Readers benefit from detailed studies on various topics from different languages, ranging from grammar to lexicon. The value of the book lies in its use of authentic language data and the employment of different empirical approaches, including advanced statistical techniques, corpus-linguistic and experimental methods, and methods unique to cognitive linguistics, such as construction analysis and grammatical profiling. Jane KlavanUniversity of Tartu This is an original collection of papers from prominent cognitive linguists in Finland, analyzing constructions involving case, aspect, figure-ground relations, light and reflexive verbs, prepositions and idioms, and dealing with phenomena such as translation, scientific terminology, language acquisition and language change. Characteristically, while the studies emphasize the use of 'real life data' and empirical methodologies, they also demonstrate that these serve as complements, rather than substitutes, to intuition-based analysis. Professor Jordan ZlataevLund University

It is exciting to see a collection of papers that provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary Finnish cognitive linguistics. Since the use of empirical methods is of paramount importance for cognitive linguistic theory, this book is an invaluable resource for the international cognitive linguistics community. Readers benefit from detailed studies on various topics from different languages, ranging from grammar to lexicon. The value of the book lies in its use of authentic language data and the employment of different empirical approaches, including advanced statistical techniques, corpus-linguistic and experimental methods, and methods unique to cognitive linguistics, such as construction analysis and grammatical profiling. Jane Klavan University of Tartu This is an original collection of papers from prominent cognitive linguists in Finland, analyzing constructions involving case, aspect, figure-ground relations, light and reflexive verbs, prepositions and idioms, and dealing with phenomena such as translation, scientific terminology, language acquisition and language change. Characteristically, while the studies emphasize the use of 'real life data' and empirical methodologies, they also demonstrate that these serve as complements, rather than substitutes, to intuition-based analysis. Professor Jordan Zlataev Lund University

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Milla Luodonpaa-Manni is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. She was educated at the same university, where she completed her PhD in French studies in 2016. Dr Luodonpaa-Manni is interested in cognitive semantics, cognitive metaphor theories, academic discourse, scientific terminology, and metatheory of science. She is also actively involved in a multidisciplinary research project, Whose welfare society?, that investigates the attitudes towards some minority groups, such as immigrants, and the position they have in society.Esa Penttila is a Lecturer in English language and translation at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, Finland. He received his PhD in English at the University of Joensuu in 2006. His interests extend to various areas of language and cognition including idiomaticity, figurative language, crosslinguistic research, natural translation, and the interdisciplinary approach to linguistics and translation studies.Johanna Viimaranta is Professor of Russian language at the Department of Russian Studies in the School of Languages and Translation Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She received her PhD in Russian language and literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 2006. Her interests include qualitative linguistic methodology in Slavic studies, comparative linguistics and cognitive linguistics. Her recent work concerns verbal prefixes, onomatopoeic interjections and case systems.

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