English Explanatory Dictionary

corpus fetishism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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

Word forms

corpus fetishism

Etymology

Probably coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000122.htmlhttp://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000058.html

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