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- Descriptivism may refer to: Descriptivist theory of names in philosophy, a view of the nature of meaning and reference generally attributed to Gottlob...
- Synagogue in Omaha, Nebraska, stands next to a table. etc ... A version of descriptivism was formulated by Frege in reaction to problems with his original theory...
- American school is alternatively called distributionalism, 'American descriptivism', or the 'Bloomfieldian' school – or 'post-Bloomfieldian', following...
- Companion to the English Language. Oxford University Press. — entry for "Descriptivism and prescriptivism" quotation: "Contrasting terms in linguistics." (p...
- and Necessity in 1970, the descriptivism advocated by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell was the orthodoxy. Descriptivism suggests that a name is an abbreviation...
- of prescriptivism (ideas about how language should be used) versus descriptivism (the realities of how natural language is used). For writing intended...
- widely cited. The former argues for two different types of meaning and descriptivism. In Foundations and "The Thought", Frege argues for Platonism against...
- of the languages considered the most classical. The conflict between descriptivism and prescriptivism is not a modern phenomenon, but was already a significant...
- p. 117. ISBN 978-1-317-67898-4. McArthur (1992), p. 286 entry for "Descriptivism and prescriptivism" quotation: "Contrasting terms in linguistics." Moch...
- Autonomy of syntax Compositionality Conservative and innovative language Descriptivism Etymology Iconicity Internationalism Internet linguistics LGBTQ linguistics...