descriptive linguistics

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noun

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
• Ant:
prescriptive linguistics
• Members of this Topic:
derivation
• Hypernyms:
linguistics
• Hyponyms:
grammar, phonology, phonemics, morphophonemics