corpus fetishism

English

Etymology

Probably coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum. [1][2]

Noun

corpus fetishism (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) An insistence that the only valid source of illustrative examples of words or language constructs is from the corpus (existing body of literature) of the language
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