The critique of the foundational postulates of cognitive grammar

Abstract

The author points out and analyses the foundational assumptions of cognitive grammar. The author sees the substitutions of informationally basic concepts with cognitively basic concepts, the relational description of category, noticing the difficulty with defininig semantically basic term, as well as the function of typical tokens in defining a category as the most important achievements of the approach. She argues that the concept of motivation is the weakest in the sense of testability in empirical sciences.