Analyzing co-occurrence data

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Springer via the DOI in this recordIn this chapter, we provide an overview of quantitative as well as qualitative approaches to co-occurrence data. We begin with a brief terminological overview of different types of co-occurrence that are prominent in corpus-linguistic studies and then discuss the computation of some widely-used measures of association used to quantify co-occurrence. We present two representative case studies, one exploring lexical collocation and learner proficiency, the other creative uses of verbs in/with argument structure constructions. In addition, we highlight how most widely-used measures actually all fall out from viewing corpus-linguistic association as an instance of regression modeling and discuss newer developments and potential improvements of association measure research