中国大学MOOC: As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for “correct” linguistic behavior, it is said to be ___________.
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- As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze
- Modern linguistics is______ in the sense that the linguist tries to discover what language is rather than lay down rules for people to observe.
- The grammarians in the 18th century tried to lay down rules for the correct use of language, which is a _______ study.
- 青书学堂: (单选题) If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be ______________.(本题3.0分)
- 61. The ___________ ___________ approach was taken by some grammarians, mainly in eighteenth-century England, who lay down rules for the correct or “proper” use of English.