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Noun: prescriptive linguistics
  1. An account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the 'correct' phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics

Type of: linguistics

Antonym: descriptive linguistics

Encyclopedia: Prescriptive linguistics

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