Reading Language, Usage and Cognition by Joan Bybee

I've read chapter 1 and 2; it's too natural and simple to be wrong. Id est, it's insightful. Every cognitive process activates neurons and leaves traces, then those correlate themselves, and gradually a structure/construction/pattern emerges from it, and becomes stronger; moreover all the processes are on-line, meaning every language use  itself is language change, every change is gradual, and every category is blurred and may have several prototypes in it.

The only true obstacle in all academic inquiries, I think, is the natural urge called dichotomy which focuses on distinctions; what we really need to do is not to show distinctions as a result, rather how and why such distinctions have happened.