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corpus fetishism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English

Syllables
cor-pus fetishism
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

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

Usage

Questions

What does corpus fetishism mean?
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
Where does corpus fetishism come from?
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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