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English noun: descriptive linguistics

1. descriptive linguistics (cognition) 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


Broader (hypernym)linguistics


Narrower (hyponym)grammar, morphophonemics, phonemics, phonology


Domain category membersderivation


Antonymsprescriptive linguistics









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