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Conclusion
one of the most innovative and comprehensive theories of grammar (or should one
say language?), thanks to its rejection of formal machinery and modularity, its
insistence on gradience and meaning as conceptualization, which involves both
embodied cognition and disengaged cognition, i.e. our ability to deal with fictive (or
virtual entities, see CG: 14.2. Ultimately, even if analyses such as the schematic
characterizations of subject and object turned out to be wrong, we would still have
to face the question of why such and related grammatical notions seem to
emerge when studying language, i.e. we will always and inevitably have to focus
our attention on the cognitive foundations of grammar.