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deˈscriptivist
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
An adherent or advocate of descriptivism. Also attrib. or as adj. So descriptiˈvistic a., descriptiˈvistically adv. (Webster 1961).
1952Archivum Linguisticum IV. i. 11 The eminent phonemicist and descriptivist W. F. Twaddell. 1960R. M. Hare in J. O. Urmson Conc. Encycl. West. Philos. 141/2 Those views which hold that moral judgments are used to give some sort of information..are called ‘descriptivist’. Ibid. 142/1 Stevenson's views did not..find favour with descriptivists. 1962Med. ævum XXXI. 149 There is some truth in the descriptivists' well-known claim: that a truly diachronic approach must be based on the comparison of descriptions of successive états de langue. 1963R. M. Hare Freedom & Reason ii. 16 A naturalist is not the only sort of ‘descriptivist’—if we may use this term for one who holds that value-words are simply one kind of descriptive word. |