He was a descriptivist and believed that a dictionary should reflect the actual contemporary state of the language.他曾是一名语言描写主义者，认为词典应该反映语言在当代的真实使用情况。We linguists tend to be descriptivist.作为语言学家，我们对语言通常持描写主义观点。He condemned the descriptivist view of language as an "Anything Goes" school.他把语言描写主义观点斥为一种“随心所欲”的做派。