corpus fetishism

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 uncountable

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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