Status Updates From Rhyme and Reason: An Introd...

People should read this instead of The Language Instinct!

"To the extent that there are no construction-universal processes, linguists are led to wonder whether specific constructions are anything but a taxonomic way of talking about specific properties of a given language, with no theoretical status in the system at large ... the conclusion being that constructions do not exist in any theoretical sense."

The first chapter is more like a crash course on the history of science. Cool indeed!