prescriptive linguistics

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1.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 semanticslinguistics - the scientific study of languagedescriptive linguistics - 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

prescriptive linguistics

Related to prescriptive linguistics: descriptive linguistics, Prescriptive grammar

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noun an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used

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linguistics

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descriptive linguistics

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