prescriptive linguistics
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1. 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 (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | linguistics, |
| definition | : | the scientific study of language (noun.cognition) |
| antonym | : | descriptive linguistics, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.cognition) |
| antonym | : | descriptive linguistics, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.cognition) |
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