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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'corpus fetishism' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions corpus fetishism noun  (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 Etymology: Probably coined by linguist w:Geoffrey Pullum, Geoffrey Pullum. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000122.htmlhttp://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000058.html        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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