Definition of descriptive linguistics Descriptive linguistics
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What does descriptive linguistics mean?
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| descriptive linguistics - 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 | ||
| prescriptive linguistics an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the `correct' phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics | ||
| linguistics the humanistic study of language and literature | ||
| grammar the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) | ||
| phonemics, phonology the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes | ||
| morphophonemics the study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language | ||
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