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descriptive linguistics
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun descriptive linguistics has 1 sense
- descriptive linguistics(n = noun.cognition) - a description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics without value judgments; is a kind of linguistics
has particulars: grammar, phonemics, phonology, morphophonemics
Antonym: prescriptive linguistics
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