Linguistik online 61, 4/13 Editorial

workshops at conferences, the Swiss Linguistic Society SSG/SSL organised a conference on the topic "Die Empirie in der Linguistik: Methodenvielfalt und-komplexität " in 2012, and in 2011 the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences SAHS (SAGW) hosted the first interdisciplinary "Swiss Methods Festival – Qualitative Research Methods and Mixed Methods Designs"). Empirical methods are lively discussed in introductory text books and are slowly beginning to become a regular component of linguistic curricula – at least in German-speaking countries. In this volume, scholars from various disciplines in linguistics present their current studies, each article focusing on research methods. Obviously, this volume does not intend to give a complete overview of methods in linguistics, but rather demonstrates with a few examples how a focus on methods can improve linguistic research and contribute to further discussions of the use of methods in linguistics. The idea of a volume focused on different research methods originated in the international workshop "A Portfolio of Linguistic Methods " organised by the Peer Mentoring Group "Chaos und Methode " at the University of Zurich in October 2011. In this workshop, a cross-disciplinary group of linguistic scholars presented the methods applied in their current studies