| In practice, dictionaries take a middle course between wholehearted descriptivism and prescriptive edicts. |
| The second objection to rigidified descriptivism concerns the differences some have claimed between how names and rigidified descriptions embed under propositional attitude verbs. |
| Not everyone, though, has rejected descriptivism. |
| American linguistics was dominated by Bloomfieldian descriptivism. |
| No endorsement of descriptivism is here required. |
| And descriptivism may be the last refuge of the linguistic conservative after the former mistake has become the current rule. |
