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  1. n. linguistics 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

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  1. Probably coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum. (Wiktionary)

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  • hernesheir Then would you insist as well that anthropologists' field-recordings should be relegated to the dung-heap and debitage of disallowed/disavowed data? Feb 15, 2013

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