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English noun: prescriptive linguistics

1. prescriptive linguistics (cognition) 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


Broader (hypernym)linguistics


Antonymsdescriptive linguistics









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