description set descriptive adequacy levels of adequacy descriptive grammar descriptive linguistics descriptive linguistics

Saussure, F. de. 1916. Cours de linguistique générale, ed. C.Bally and A.Sechehaye. Paris. (Course in general linguistics, trans. R.Harris. London, 1983.) linguistics (history) 2 (also descriptive grammar. In its broader sense, any type of non-prescriptive or non-

normative description of different linguistic varieties, which codifies regularities according to use. ( prescriptive grammar)