corpus fetishism en · NOUN
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
Meanings
- (uncountable) 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