| American linguistics between the 1930s and 1950s was dominated by Bloomfieldian descriptivism. |
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| In practice, dictionaries take a middle course between wholehearted descriptivism and prescriptive edicts. |
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| And descriptivism may be the last refuge of the linguistic conservative after the former mistake has become the current rule. |
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| American linguistics was dominated by Bloomfieldian descriptivism. |
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| The robust version of descriptive philosophy of science derives from, or superimposes upon, the conclusions of modest descriptivism, a theory about evaluative practice. |
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| No endorsement of descriptivism is here required. |
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| Not everyone, though, has rejected descriptivism. |
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| Rigidity's work is compatible with descriptivism. |
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| The second objection to rigidified descriptivism concerns the differences some have claimed between how names and rigidified descriptions embed under propositional attitude verbs. |
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| Priestley's and Lowth's grammars epitomized, respectively, the two main trends of grammatical tradition, namely descriptivism and prescriptivism. |
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