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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
native-speaker en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of, relating to, or characteristic of native speakers.
Nevertheless, a certain amount of schizophrenia pertains to the study of World Englishes as New Englishes, for while new Englishes are regarded as valid varieties in their own right, the description and delineation of them in linguistic terms is conducted through the gaze of native-speaker norms.
2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 305: