Analyzability in Cognitive Grammar: A Reappraisal
Analyzability in Cognitive Grammar: A Reappraisal

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the notion of analyzability, initially discussed in Langacker (1987), in the framework of the latest refinement of Ronald Langacker’s model of Cognitive Grammar (2016), which we will call, for the purpose of this paper, the Cognitive Grammar Structure and Function model (CGSF model). Based on Langacker’s (2016, p. 24) claim that “(...) structure and function (...) are indissociable, like the two sides of a coin” and that ‘‘a structure is never independent of its functions,” we will argue for an extended version of analyzability, which we will call, in want of a better term, analyst analyzability. We will look at the latter through the prism of the External Symbolic System, a theory of collective memory proposed by Merlin Donald (cf. Donald 1991).

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