The story
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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corpus fetishism
Today it means: 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 Full definition →