Abstract
What is grammar? How do people manage to idiomatically organise sentences and phrases during an interaction or whilst writing a text? This chapter aims at exploring different theories that tried to answer this question. It starts from structuralist approaches emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century. It then discusses Chomskian generative grammar arising during the first ‘Cognitive Revolution’ in the 60s. The chapter finally gives considerable space to recent and contemporary usage-based frameworks addressing the relationship between language and cognition. Among those, we will discuss the main assumptions and applications of Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar, Radical Construction Grammar and Dialogic Syntax.
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