Acknowledgements Putting together a book like this requires inspiration,patience and lots of help!First of all,we want to thank all of the contributors to this volume.Writing pedagogical mate- rial is,without a doubt,one of the most challenging tasks in our profession.How does one explain clearly to a neonate in the field what has become common sense to us as researchers?Not an easy question to answer,yet one to which all of our authors have responded admirably. The foundation for this volume came from the energy of all of the participants of the first Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics(EMCL)workshop,held at Cornell University,NY,2003.A warm thank you to you all.The faculty presenters were:Leonard Talmy,Tatiana Chernigovskaya,Seana Coulson,Shimon Edelman,Raymond Gibbs, Kira Gor,Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk,Scott Liddell,Teenie Matlock,Wolfgang Settekorn,Lera Boroditsky,Chris Sinha,Michael Spivey,and Eve Sweetser.The faculty participants were:Ben Bergen,Claire Cardie,Marianella Casasola,Roberta Golinkoff, Jeff Hancock,Naomi Khoda,Ed Kako,Suzanne Kemmer,Andrej Kibrik,Ken McRae, Rafael Nunez,Yasuhiro Shirai,Guy Van Orden,Morten Christiansen,Herb Colston,James Cutting,and Joerg Zinken.The student participants were:Carey Benon,Michele Bishop, Sean Flanagan,Uri Hasson,Daniel Richardson,David Havas,Michael Klieman,Chris Koops,Sarah Kriz,Kristin Mulrooney,Andriy M'yachykov,Shweta Narayan,Florencia Re- ali,Fey Parril,Rachel Pulverman,Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum,Monica Sanaphre,Nathaniel Smith,Bob Williams,Ying Choon Wu,Reka Beneczes,Vito Evola,Maurizio Gagliano, Olga Khomitsevich,Daniel Kislyuk,Sarah Lee,Vera Malioushenkova,Bo Pederson, Sophia Skoufaki,Cristina Soriano,Tatiana Svistounova,Sylvia Tufvesson,Eric Breck and Stanka Fitneva. For financial support we want to thank the Cognitive Studies Program at Cornell University and the National Science Foundation,in particular Guy Van Orden A heart-felt thank you from mgm to her advisors,Michael Spivey,Seana Coulson and James Cutting for allowing her to undertake such an ambitious venture. A huge thank you to James Cutting,editor of Psychological Science,for allowing mgm to plague him with endless editorial concerns.(Famous last words:this will only take a minute!) Shimon Edelman's(past chair of the Cognitive Studies Program at Cornell University) adventurous spirit demonstrated by encouraging a second year graduate student in word and deed to begin what have become the international Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics workshops,deserves a generous round of applause.If he hadn't said yes,it is unlikely we would have come this far.JB[v.20020404] Prn:12/04/2007; 9:21 F: HCP18AC.tex / p.1 (46-128) Acknowledgements Putting together a book like this requires inspiration, patience and lots of help! First of all, we want to thank all of the contributors to this volume. Writing pedagogical mate￾rial is, without a doubt, one of the most challenging tasks in our profession. How does one explain clearly to a neonate in the field what has become common sense to us as researchers? Not an easy question to answer, yet one to which all of our authors have responded admirably. The foundation for this volume came from the energy of all of the participants of the first Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics (EMCL) workshop, held at Cornell University, NY, 2003. A warm thank you to you all. The faculty presenters were: Leonard Talmy, Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Seana Coulson, Shimon Edelman, Raymond Gibbs, Kira Gor, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Scott Liddell, Teenie Matlock, Wolfgang Settekorn, Lera Boroditsky, Chris Sinha, Michael Spivey, and Eve Sweetser. The faculty participants were: Ben Bergen, Claire Cardie, Marianella Casasola, Roberta Golinkoff, Jeff Hancock, Naomi Khoda, Ed Kako, Suzanne Kemmer, Andrej Kibrik, Ken McRae, Rafael Nuñez, Yasuhiro Shirai, Guy Van Orden, Morten Christiansen, Herb Colston, James Cutting, and Joerg Zinken. The student participants were: Carey Benon, Michele Bishop, Sean Flanagan, Uri Hasson, Daniel Richardson, David Havas, Michael Klieman, Chris Koops, Sarah Kriz, Kristin Mulrooney, Andriy M’yachykov, Shweta Narayan, Florencia Re￾ali, Fey Parril, Rachel Pulverman, Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum, Monica Sanaphre, Nathaniel Smith, Bob Williams, Ying Choon Wu, Reka Beneczes, Vito Evola, Maurizio Gagliano, Olga Khomitsevich, Daniel Kislyuk, Sarah Lee, Vera Malioushenkova, Bo Pederson, Sophia Skoufaki, Cristina Soriano, Tatiana Svistounova, Sylvia Tufvesson, Eric Breck and Stanka Fitneva. For financial support we want to thank the Cognitive Studies Program at Cornell University and the National Science Foundation, in particular Guy Van Orden. A heart-felt thank you from mgm to her advisors, Michael Spivey, Seana Coulson and James Cutting for allowing her to undertake such an ambitious venture. A huge thank you to James Cutting, editor of Psychological Science, for allowing mgm to plague him with endless editorial concerns. (Famous last words: this will only take a minute!) Shimon Edelman’s (past chair of the Cognitive Studies Program at Cornell University) adventurous spirit demonstrated by encouraging a second year graduate student in word and deed to begin what have become the international Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics workshops, deserves a generous round of applause. If he hadn’t said yes, it is unlikely we would have come this far