descriptive linguistics

DEFINITIONS OF: descriptive linguistics

Antonyms:: 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

Types:: show 8 types...; hide 8 types...; 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; descriptive grammar
a grammar that is produced by descriptive linguistics; prescriptive grammar
a grammar that is produced by prescriptive linguistics; syntax
studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences; orthoepy
a term formerly used for the part of phonology that dealt with the `correct' pronunciation of words and its relation to `correct' orthography; morphology
studies of the rules for forming admissible words

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