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Descriptive Linguistics

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Noun

1. 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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Descriptive Linguistics

see synonyms of descriptive linguistics
noun
(functioning as singular)
the study of the description of the internal phonological, grammatical, and semantic structures of languages at given points in time without reference to their histories or to one another
. Also called: synchronic linguistics Compare historical linguistics

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Descriptive Linguistics

see synonyms of descriptive linguistics
the branch of linguistics which describes the structure of a language or languages as they exist, without reference to their histories or to comparison with other languages

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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