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The findings of this research point to important possibilities that linguistic categories are not autonomous from general conceptual organization and processing mechanisms. So what are generative linguists thinking of when they argue that there is much evidence from cognitive psychology that supports the autonomy of language view? I briefly describe below some of the evidence that is thought to favor the autonomy of language, or modularity, view because its existence is seen by some linguists as removing the need for any subfield of linguistics called cognitive linguistics.
1987 Women, fire and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1: 39-74. 1993 "Convergence zones and conceptual structure" (Commentary on: Antonio Damasio and Daniel Tranel: Nouns and verbs are retrieved with differently distributed neural systems), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (to appear). Langacker, Ronald W. 1987 Foundations of cognitive grammar. Vol. I: Theoretical prerequisites. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
This last line struck a very sensitive nerve in some of the people who responded to my message (the purpose of which, again, was to inform people about the 2nd ICLA conference held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the summer of 1991, not to start a full-blown debate). Various people complained that linguistics has always been cognitive and that research in other cognitive disciplines confirms many of the ideas touted by generative linguists, particularly in regard to the autonomy of language from cognition (cf.