István Kenesei (Hungarian Academy of Science (Linguistics): The cognitive turn in linguistics: multiple creativity in language

Abstract:
I regard research into the creative nature of language as underlying the
cognitive turn in linguistics in recent years. Formal creativity, or in
other words, the recursive nature of language (with respect to both the
basic units, such as words, and the end products, i.e., sentences) is what
determines further domains of creativity, víz., at the level of meanings
and in the theory of mind, providing for their unlimited and variable
nature. Starting from Chomskyan principles of the formal properties of
language arguments are drawn from the theories of metaphors and from
neurolinguistics.