descriptivism

How To Use descriptivism In A Sentence

• In practice, dictionaries take a middle course between wholehearted descriptivism and prescriptive edicts.
• * And if descriptivism is rampant, would prescriptivism be "couchant"? Languagehat.com: REALLY MISPLACED.
• In other words, descriptivism does literally give us an “idea as to what extent we should be tolerant of grammatical error:” specifically, it says that this extent is limited by the evidence. None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar
• It's a bizarre tale about the passions stirred by what its critics saw as the dangerous shift, in the early 1960s, from prescriptivism to descriptivism in America's most authoritative dictionary.
• In practice, dictionaries take a middle course between wholehearted descriptivism and prescriptive edicts. They advise when a form is controversial, or a word is going out of use, or is shifting its sense.
• Or has the descriptivism trickled all the way down? The Volokh Conspiracy » Kobach on Arizona’s Immigration Law
• One problem that I have with descriptivism is that it gives us no idea as to what extent we should be tolerant of grammatical error. None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar
• It would be "descriptivist" to refer to him as Duh Poap Bennuhdigged 16 hyperbole, I know -- even in descriptivism that would usually be seen as wrong. URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion
• It is not pure descriptivism, or anything that anybody says or writes would be equally acceptable. None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar
• American linguistics between the 1930s and 1950s was dominated by Bloomfieldian descriptivism.