| NOUN | cognition | descriptive linguistics | a description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology / morphology and syntax / syntax and semantics without value judgments |
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| Meaning | A description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology / morphology and syntax / syntax and semantics without value judgments. | |
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| Category of | derivation | (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation |
| Narrower | grammar | The branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) |
| morphophonemics | The study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language | |
| phonology, phonemics | The study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes | |
| Broader | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
| Opposite | prescriptive linguistics | An account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used |
| Spanish | linguística descriptiva, lingüística sincrónica | |
| Catalan | lingüística sincrònica | |
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