text_combined: sum trends developments linguistics summary reactions recent posting crucial issues domains investigation contemporary linguistic research important trends developments determine research agenda linguistics near future received four replies viz suzanne e kemmer mark liberman paul woods sabine geldof would hereby like thank mark liberman reply long detailed insightful also based internal report therefore perhaps fit public dissemination want know details say may want contact personally myl sansom ling upenn edu two general themes emerged responses 1 far theorybuilding concerned main areas interest development future believed lie field cognitive linguistics e relation linguistic structure cognition envisaged r langacker g lakoff others 2 terms methodology stronger emphasis corpus based research made possible ongoing microelectronic revolution increasing application computers linguistic research expected bring major theoretical revolutions paradigm shifts cf pdp connectionism computers reveal mind alex housen