pseudo-linguistics
See also: pseudolinguistics
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
pseudo- + linguistics. First attested 1962 (OED). Modelled on the earlier adjective pseudolinguistic (as in "pseudolinguistic science", attested 1915).
Noun
pseudo-linguistics (uncountable)
- Work purporting to fall under the scholarly field of linguistics but falling short of its standards; linguistic pseudo-scholarship.
- Roy Medvedev deals with the less known but even odder pseudo-linguistics of Nikolai Marr. ( Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 2 May 2004, R7; cited after OED)