| American linguistics between the 1930s and 1950s was dominated by Bloomfieldian descriptivism. |
| The robust version of descriptive philosophy of science derives from, or superimposes upon, the conclusions of modest descriptivism, a theory about evaluative practice. |
| In practice, dictionaries take a middle course between wholehearted descriptivism and prescriptive edicts. |
| And descriptivism may be the last refuge of the linguistic conservative after the former mistake has become the current rule. |
| No endorsement of descriptivism is here required. |
| American linguistics was dominated by Bloomfieldian descriptivism. |
