This study argues that an understanding of ‘plurilithic’ Englishes informed by cognitively oriented linguistics (including generativism), can replete and solidify valued yet often separative socially oriented attempts to ‘disinvent’ named languages. It is suggested that an altered, ‘polylingually constituted’, lection of the Chomskyan I-language idea may be helpful, catching the bottom-up charachter of individual language resources and signing a clear opposition with folk ontologies of English as a named monolithic system (N-language).