Hudson, Richard. 1990. English word grammar. Book. Oxford: Basil Blackwell
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24cmIn introduction distinguishes and describes 8 trends (sometimes conflicting) that emerged in the 1980s:lexicalism, wholism, trans-constructionism, poly-constructionism, relationism, mono-stratalism, cognitivism, implementationismp. 8 On cognitivism: "cognitivism has Generally involved an emphasis on the fuzziness and open-endedness of language, in reaction against what is seen as the unrealistically neat picture offered by most linguistic theories. One result of this stress on fuzziness has been a lack of a clear research paradigm for those who are sympathetic with the General principles but who still want to write grammars." But there are many benefits, e.g. push towards lexicalism, poly-constructionism, and prototypes. --- prototype theory and cognitivism are closely linkedp. 9 On Chomsky: "The only way of proving anything about the necessity of a uniquely linguistic analysis is by trying very hard to do the opposite. Success refutes the hypothesis, but failure can be interpreted either as support for the hypothesis, or as evidence that one has not tried hard enough."