Method

Linguistic description

Overview

work of objectively describing the state of a linguistic system; as opposed to prescribing perceived norms of usage

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Philosophers who discussed Linguistic description

• J. N. Findlay

Related ideas

• French language
• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Hebrew language
• Ancient Greek
• Language
• Latin
• Language family
• Structural linguistics
• Hypothesis
• Linguistics
• Poetry
• Phoneme
• Phonology
• Quechuan languages
• Renaissance
• Narrative
• Spanish language
• Syntax
• Nahuatl
• Sanskrit
• Tamil language
• Oxford University Press
• Pāṇini
• Chinese language

Place in the tradition

Part of Metaepistemology.

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