Introduction to the special issue on collostructions

Abstract This paper serves as an introduction to CLLT’s special issue celebrating 20 years of collostructional analysis, a corpus-linguistic method developed in the early aughts to quantify the degree of association between words and constructions and between words in one construction. A variety of case studies revisit critical aspects of collostructional studies, apply the method to native and learner data, and to synchronic and diachronic questions, and chart new ground by extending the method in various quantitative ways (e.g., with the inclusion of more and more diverse variables than just words and constructions or with network models and advanced regression approaches).