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DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("descriptive linguistics" is a kind of...):
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Domain member category:
derivation ((descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "descriptive linguistics"):
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)
Antonym:
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)
