English

Alternative forms

• pseudolinguistics

Noun

pseudo-linguistics ‎(uncountable)

1. 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)