Reflecting on the quantitative turn in linguistics

Abstract Linguistics, English linguistics in particular, has witnessed a remarkable quantitative turn since the 1990s and early 2000s. It was both scale quality, concerning degree (including of sophistication) to which empirical studies, statistical techniques, modelling have come be used determine linguistic research. Which role corpus probabilistic linguistics, including usage-based approaches, played this development? Has been detriment qualitative methods, or even theorizing general? reached point “quantitative crisis”, is it still discipline characterized by healthy equilibrium, if not mutual reinforcement, approaches? What are, should be, major repercussions strong for publication system (English) linguistics? These are overarching questions underlying reflections offered opinion paper.