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PRESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("prescriptive linguistics" is a kind of...):
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Antonym:
descriptive 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)
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