Complete Definition of "corpus fetishism"

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Probably coined by linguist w:Geoffrey Pullum|Geoffrey Pullum. 12

Noun

corpus fetishism

  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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