descriptive linguistics

1. 1.

   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

   Antonymsprescriptive linguistics

   Broaderlinguistics

   Narrowergrammarphonologymorphophonemics

Questions about descriptive linguistics

What does descriptive linguistics mean?

descriptive linguistics means "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".

What is the opposite of descriptive linguistics?

The recorded antonyms are prescriptive linguistics.

Is descriptive linguistics a common word?

descriptive linguistics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.