TY - JOUR AU - Swanepoel, P.H. PY - 1970/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Op soek na 'n adekwate linguistiese teorie vir die begronding van die leksikografieteorie en -praktyk --- die kognitiewe grammatika as 'n moontlike alternatief JF - Lexikos JA - Lex VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Artikels/Articles DO - 10.5788/2-1-1135 UR - https://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1135 SP - AB - <b>In Search of an Adequate Linguistic Theory for Lexicographical Theory and Praxis --- Cognitive Grammar as a Possible Alternative</b>Various researchers have suggested, and occasionally demonstrated, that cognitive grammar offers a more viable alternative for lexicography than most traditional and structuralist linguistic theories. This paper addresses a number of basic issues in this regard, viz. the role of linguistic theories in lexicography as a scientific praxis, the adequacy of linguistic theories from a lexicographical point of view and the adequacy and viability of cognitive grammar as one such alternative to traditional and structuralist linguistic theories. ER -