pseudo-linguistics

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

Noun

 * 1) Work purporting to fall under the scholarly field of linguistics but falling short of its standards; linguistic pseudo-scholarship.
 * 2) * Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 2 May 2004, R7
 * Roy Medvedev deals with the less known but even odder pseudo-linguistics of Nikolai Marr.