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(1999), Santa Barbara (2001), Logroño(2003), Seoul (2005), Krakow (2007), and Berkeley 
(2009).
(p. 8)
Given the theoretical aspects of Cognitive Linguistics as described in the previous 
paragraph, it is easy to appreciate that the demarcation of Cognitive Linguistics in terms 
of people is somewhat arbitrary. Sociologically speaking, cognitive linguists would be 
those people who belong to the Cognitive Linguistics community—who interact with like-
minded researchers and who attend the ICLC conferences. But if we think in terms of 
common perspectives and purposes, even if only partially shared, many more names 
could be mentioned. For instance, in terms of seminal ideas and actual influence, Charles 
Fillmore should be considered on a par with the three founding fathers, even though he 
would probably not describe himself as a cognitive linguist.
The journal
Cognitive Linguistics
, which was founded by Dirk Geeraerts in 1990, is the of­
ficial journal of the ICLA. In 2003, a second journal specifically devoted to research in 
Cognitive Linguistics,
the Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics
, was launched under 
the auspices of the Spanish branch of the ICLA. Book series dedicated to Cognitive Lin­
guistics are published by two major publishing houses in linguistics: Mouton de Gruyter 
of Berlin publishes the Cognitive Linguistics Research series, and John Benjamins Pub­
lishing Company of Amsterdam publishes the Cognitive Linguistics in Practice series.
Primers in Cognitive Linguistics, in the form of introductory textbooks, include (in 
chronological order of first appearance), Taylor (1989), Ungerer and Schmid (1996
), Dir­
ven and Verspoor (1998), Lee (2001), Croft and Cruse (2004), and Evans and Green 
(2006
). The Dirven and Verspoor volume has been translated in several languages. A col­
lection of basic texts by leading representatives of Cognitive Linguistics may be found in 
Geeraerts (2006a).
An extended bibliography of work in Cognitive Linguistics, edited by HansGeorg Wolf, 
René Dirven, Rong Chen, Ning Yu, and Birgit Smieja, has appeared online and on CD-
ROM at Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin in 2006. The
Cognitive Linguistics Bibliography
(
Cog­
Bib
) consists of a database covering monographs, journal articles, book series, disserta­
tions, MA theses, proceedings, working papers, and unpublished work relevant to the 
study of Cognitive Linguistics and adjacent disciplines. It consists of 7,000 entries and 
aims at an annual growth of 1,000 items. The first release of the database is fully indexed 
and will be available for subscribers to
Cognitive Linguistics
.