Old Wine in New Bottles. Husserl, Pure Grammar, and Cognitive Phenomenology

The paper aims to present a phenomenological-cognitive version of Husserlian pure grammar. In the first paragraph, I will reconstruct some arguments against Husserl's pure grammar; in the second, I will set out the state of the art on the syntactic image and clarify in what sense the recognition of meaning depends on one’s conception of the syntactic image. In the third section, I will define a valuable Husserlian cognitive phenomenology for our purposes and call it Good Old Fashion Cognitive Phenomenology (GOFCoPh) for convenience to distinguish it from contemporary cognitive phenomenology. Within this framework, I will explain the characteristics and goals of the examples of non-grammaticality chosen by Husserl. In the fourth section, I will define the role of the evidence of distinction and the theory of nuclei. In the fifth section, I will confront the judgment of grammaticality and define the notion of absolute and minimal non-grammaticality judgment in the style of GOFCoPh. In the sixth paragraph, I will defend GOFCoPh applied to syntax against the accusation of being an achievement-like phenomenology.