Sapir also encouraged Whorf to continue his work on the historical and descriptive linguistics of Uto-Aztecan.

has argued that in this report Whorf's linguistic theories exist in a condensed form and that it was mainly through this report that Whorf exerted influence on the discipline of descriptive linguistics.

In a broad sense the theories implicit in most work within descriptive linguistics and linguistic typology fit within the category of functional linguistics.

Halliday follows Hjelmslev and Firth in distinguishing theoretical from descriptive categories in linguistics.

The term natural language refers to actual linguistic behavior, and is aligned with descriptive linguistics rather than linguistic prescription.

In other words, phonetics belongs to descriptive linguistics, and phonology to theoretical linguistics.

However in light of the role of language usage in everyday social class distinctions, many feel that linguistics should be descriptive rather than prescriptive to avoid reinforcing dominant class value judgments about what linguistic forms should and should not be used.

The study of the relationship between words present in the language at one time is synchronic etymology, part of descriptive linguistics, and the study of word origins and evolution is diachronic etymology, part of historical linguistics.

In the study of language, description, or descriptive linguistics, is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is spoken ( or how it was spoken in the past ) by a group of people in a speech community.

All scholarly research in linguistics is descriptive ; like all other sciences, its aim is to observe the linguistic world as it is, without the bias of preconceived ideas about how it ought to be.

Modern descriptive linguistics is based on a structural approach to language, as exemplified in the work of Leonard Bloomfield and others.

Almost all linguistic theory has its origin in practical problems of descriptive linguistics.

A linguistic description is considered descriptively adequate if it achieves one or more of the following goals of descriptive linguistics:

Moreover, like most practical guides to writing and speaking a language, the linguistics of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage mix the prescriptive and the descriptive, which allows grammatical extremists to ascribe H. W.

descriptive linguistics

Prescriptive approaches to language, concerned with how the prescriptivist recommends language should be used, are often contrasted with the alternative approach of descriptive linguistics, which observes and records how language actually is used.

This can be considered an appeal to descriptive linguistics rather than prescriptive linguistics, as it resolves the issue of definition based on how the population uses natural language.

Onomastics, the study of proper names and their origins, includes: anthroponymy, concerned with human names, including personal names, surnames and nicknames ; toponymy the study of place names ; and etymology, the derivation, history and use of names as revealed through comparative and descriptive linguistics.

* GOLD ( ontology ), an ontology for descriptive linguistics

Once performed by hand, POS tagging is now done in the context of computational linguistics, using algorithms which associate discrete terms, as well as hidden parts of speech, in accordance with a set of descriptive tags.

With no accepted technical meaning in modern linguistics, the term is little used by descriptive scientists.

Sometimes he uses it as a subjective, descriptive term, and sometimes as an objective, diagnostic one.

Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art.

Cryptic crossword puzzles frequently use anagrammatic clues, usually indicating that they are anagrams by the inclusion of a descriptive term like " confused " or " in disarray ".

The term ' antibiosis ', meaning " against life ," was introduced by the French bacteriologist Vuillemin as a descriptive name of the phenomenon exhibited by these early antibacterial drugs.

The descriptive term for the smallest living biological structure was coined by Robert Hooke in a book he published in 1665 when he compared the cork cells he saw through his microscope to the small rooms monks lived in .< ref name =" Hooke ">"< cite >...

A precising definition extends the descriptive dictionary definition ( lexical definition ) of a term for a specific purpose by including additional criteria that narrow down the set of things meeting the definition.

He referred to the amoeba he observed microscopically as ' Amoeba coli '; however it is not clear whether he was using this as a descriptive term or intended it as a formal taxonomic name.

Although the term is usually only descriptive, in some cases people use it as the name of a genre.

Microfossil is a descriptive term applied to fossilized plants and animals whose size is just at or below the level at which the fossil can be analyzed by the naked eye.

A good many scholars, however, use the term in the broader descriptive sense to refer to various groups in various religious traditions including those groups that would object to being classified as fundamentalists.

Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian — descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices — has entered the vernacular with several of his neologisms, such as doublethink, thoughtcrime, and thought police.

" An alternative term suggested " as a more descriptive name for the discipline " is interactive decision theory.

The formal study of grammar is an important part of education for children from a young age through advanced learning, though the rules taught in schools are not a " grammar " in the sense most linguists use the term, particularly as they are often prescriptive rather than descriptive.

Granitoid is a general, descriptive field term for light-colored, coarse-grained igneous rocks.

* Intrinsic sympatheticomimetic activity, a relative descriptive term relating the activity of a partial agonist

The phrase " Inuit language " is largely limited to professional discourse, since in each area, there is one or more conventional terms that cover all the local variants ; or it is used as a descriptive term in publications where readers can't necessarily be expected to know the locally used words.

Some scholars take the term kenning broadly to include any noun-substitute consisting of two or more elements, including merely descriptive epithets ( such as Old Norse grand viðar “ bane of wood ” = “ fire ” ( Snorri Sturluson: Skáldskaparmál 36 )), while others would restrict it to metaphorical instances ( such as Old Norse sól húsanna “ sun of the houses ” = “ fire ” ( Snorri Sturluson: Skáldskaparmál 36 )), specifically those where “ he base-word identifies the referent with something which it is not, except in a specially conceived relation which the poet imagines between it and the sense of the limiting element '” ( Brodeur ( 1959 ) pp. 248 – 253 ).

It originally was known as " LRN " for Loomis Radio Navigation, after Alfred Lee Loomis, who invented the longer range system and played a crucial role in military research and development during World War II, but later was renamed to the abbreviation for the more descriptive term.

The court denied the prosecution's request, and ruled that the term was appropriately " descriptive.

The GIA and CIBJO now simply use the term ' pearl ' ( or, where appropriate, the more descriptive term ' non-nacreous pearl ') when referring to such items and, under Federal Trade Commission rules, various mollusc pearls may be referred to as ' pearls ', without qualification.

The term republic originated from the writers of the Renaissance as a descriptive term for states that were not monarchies.

In the beginning the term was used in a derogatory sense, but over time it has become accepted as descriptive.