Notes
1 Lazard misrepresents cognitive grammar completely, however, when he classifies it as derived from Chomsky’s doctrine and defined with reference to the latter. Langacker, and most other cognitive linguists along with him, explicitly rejects the fundamental postulates of Chomsky’s approach such as the priority of syntax and its autonomy from semantics and seeks to build syntactic analysis on psychological categories involving a direct correlation between syntactic form and semantic content.