"Quirkian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers, Päivi Pahta, Writing in nonstandard English, page 84",
          "text": "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[…]",
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          "text": "[…]three works of Crystal who, of course, used the Quirkian model.",
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          "ref": "2005, Petra Perner, Atsushi Imiya, Machine learning and data mining in pattern recognition, page 572",
          "text": "We are interested in the Quirkian notion that frequency of use of words correlates with acceptability of those words as part of the vocabulary[…]",
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