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English
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Etymology
From 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.
- Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 2 May 2004, R7
- Roy Medvedev deals with the less known but even odder pseudo-linguistics of Nikolai Marr.