usagist

usagist
One who defines a language by usage rather than theory.

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  • linguist — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. polyglot, philologist, etymologist. See speech. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Student of language] Syn. etymologist, philologist, philologer, structuralist, structural linguist, usagist, transformationalist …   English dictionary for students

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