corpus fetishism

短语

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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

    不可数 语言学

词源

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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