descriptive: adj.记述的，叙述的；说明的。 a descriptive catalogue 带有说明的目录。 a descriptive writing 叙事文。 the descriptive geometry 画法几何(学)。 descriptive of 描写…的，记述…的，说明…的。adv.-ly
The two most influential theories in the modern linguistics - american structural descriptive linguistics and chomsky ' s tg grammar are surveyed 摘要20世纪极具影响力的两大理论流派美国结构主义描述性语言学和乔姆斯基的转换生成语法都曾引起现代语言学领域的革命。
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Although the tg theory drastically opposes the linguistic philosophy of the american structuralism descriptive linguistics it still bears the philosophical traits of the structuralism when examined from the point of view of the philosophical methodology 尽管转换生成语法激烈反对结构主义描述性语言学的语言哲学思想，从方法论的角度来看，转换生成语法和结构主义其实是一脉相承。
