Having looked at cognitive linguistics from the perspective of Abundantia Verborum in the first part of this chapter, we now will look at Abundantia Verborum from a cognitive linguistic perspective. More concretely, we will examine how the case study presented in 5.1.4 The case study "vers" can benefit from Abundantia Verborum, paying special attention to those aspects of the study in which a cognitive framework seems more adequate than a classical one.
The case study "vers" is carried out in a workshop. In the section 5.2.1 The need for a workshop layer we discuss the relation between workshops and case studies, and defend our position that workshops (as opposed to direct operation on corpora) are very suited for case studies such as the one at hand. In section 5.2.2 Labels as a formal approach we discuss how labels relate to the tradition of formalisms in cognitive linguistics. We show how, and to which extent, labels can be used to represent, in a rigid way, data and phenomena cognitive linguistics is interested in. Afterwards, in section 5.2.3 Graphs as representational formats we compare the possibilities of the graph mechanism in Abundantia Verborum with the types of diagrams that are common in cognitive linguistics. In 5.2.4 Possible extensions, finally, we discuss some candidate future extensions of Abundantia Verborum that would increase the degree to which cognitive linguistic studies are supported.