syntactician
/ˌsɪntækˈtɪʃən/
syntactician noun: one who studies syntax; especially, a linguist who does so expertly.
Noun
syntactician (plural syntacticians)
- One who studies syntax; especially, a linguist who does so expertly.
- Thus, Jackendoff's analysis of Aspectual Auxiliaries as Specifiers which expand V-bar into V-double-bar seems to have some empirical support (though we should point out that by no means all X-bar syntacticians are happy to treat Aspectuals as Specifiers which expand V-bar into V-double-bar: some...1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 240
- Synonyms:
- syntacticist
Synonyms of syntactician
Forms of syntactician
| plural | syntacticians |
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Origin of syntactician
From syntactic + -ian.
Questions about syntactician
- What does syntactician mean?
- Syntactician means one who studies syntax; especially, a linguist who does so expertly.
- What part of speech is syntactician?
- Syntactician is a noun.
- How do you pronounce syntactician?
- Syntactician is pronounced /ˌsɪntækˈtɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of syntactician?
- The plural of syntactician is syntacticians.
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