descriptivists造句
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- Linguists can generally be divided into two groups : prescriptivists, or those who hold that language is governed by fixed rules of grammar, and descriptivists, or those who believe that patterns of actual usage reflect the way the language is used.
- :: : : : : Oh, it's obviously " possible ", and once people say it, it stands a chance of being noticed and described by descriptivists ( not that I'm applying that epithet to you or anyone in particular here; nor am I a prescriptivist ).
- :By the way, Jack, though I am one of those horrible descriptivists, I recently got a thrill out of reading David Foster Wallace's " Tense Present " and thought you might enjoy it as well . . . are you a SNOOT ?---talk 09 : 30, 23 June 2015 ( UTC)
- Oh, Mwalcoff, if you read Pinker's other book, " The Language Instinct ", you'll find that he discusses at great length the difference between linguist " prescriptivists ", who write grammar books and declare how " things should be said ", and " descriptivists ", who tend to be professional linguists like Pinker.
- For descriptivists Aristotle means the greatest student of Plato , the founder of logic and the teacher of Alexander . So the sentence the greatest student of Plato, etc ., was the greatest student of Plato, is equivalent to Aristotle was the greatest student of Plato, etc . Of course a sentence like x = x is necessary, but this just isn't the case with proper names and their descriptions.
- It's difficult to find descriptivists in a sentence. 用descriptivists造句挺难的
- The phrase makes logical sense with " couldn't " but is very common with " could " . ( 2.1 million google hits v 1.3m ghits . ) Likewise, " flammable " and " inflammable " are used interchangeably . ( 6.3m v 5.6m ) Prescriptivists can argue " correctness " as much as you wish; linguists tend to be descriptivists, and as such track usage . talk ) 02 : 05, 19 April 2009 ( UTC)
- Some formalists would argue that there is " the " understood in the first sentence ( " he is both the hunter and the hunted " ) and " a " understood in the second ( " a human being is both a man and a beast " ), while descriptivists might argue that mentally adding such an " understood " article is driving out a subtle but significant nuance why else would someone write or speak it his or her own way rather than with the grammarian's paraphrase?
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