pseudo-linguistics

See also: pseudolinguistics

English

Alternative forms

• pseudolinguistics

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ linguistics. First attested 1962 (OED). Modelled on the earlier adjective pseudolinguistic (as in "pseudolinguistic science", attested 1915).

Noun

pseudo-linguistics (uncountable)

1. 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.