Quirkian

English Etymology From en Quirk ian. Adjective Of or relating to Randolph Quirk (1920–2017), British linguist who championed a descriptive approach toward English grammar. en 1999 Irma Taavitsainen; Gunnel Melchers; Päivi Pahta Writing in nonstandard English 84 Naturally, such an interpretation must remain a wholly subjective matter even if one were to follow to their logical limits the clusters of Foucauldian and Quirkian beliefs about languages en 1999 Rodney D. Huddleston; Peter Collins; David A. Lee The clause in English: in honour of Rodney Huddleston 310 three works of Crystal who, of course, used the Quirkian model. en 2005 Petra Perner; Atsushi Imiya Machine learning and data mining in pattern recognition 572 We are interested in the Quirkian notion that frequency of use of words correlates with acceptability of those words as part of the vocabulary en eponyms