pseudo-linguistics

pseudo-linguistics
publications 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)


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