Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Corpus-driven Cognitive Semantics. Introduction to the field -- Quantitative methods in Cognitive Semantics. Introduction to the volume -- Section I Corpus methods in Cognitive Semantics -- The doctor and the semantician -- Balancing Acts: Empirical pursuits in Cognitive Linguistics -- Does frequency in text instantiate entrenchment in the cognitive system? -- Section II Advancing the science: Theoretical questions -- The aspectual coercion of the English Durative Adverbial -- The force dynamics of English complement clauses: A Collostructional Analysis -- Accounting for the role of situation in language use in a Cognitive Semantic representation of sentence mood -- Exemplars and analogy: Semantic extension in constructional networks -- Section III Advancing the science: Methodological questions -- Marrying cognitive-linguistic theory and corpus-based methods: On the compositionality of English V NP-idioms -- Testing the hypothesis. Objectivity and verification in usage-based Cognitive Semantics -- Beyond the dative alternation: The semantics of the Dutch aan-Dative -- Corpus-based evidence for an idiosyncratic aspect-modality relation in Russian -- Section IV Towards an empirical Cognitive Semantics -- Quantitative approaches in usage-based Cognitive Semantics: Myths, erroneous assumptions, and a proposal -- Empirical cognitive semantics: Some thoughts -- Backmatter