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syntacticians

syntacticians is the plural of syntactician.

Meaning of syntactician

Noun

syntactician (plural syntacticians)

  1. 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

Questions about syntacticians

What is syntacticians the plural of?
Syntacticians is the plural of syntactician.

Words near syntacticians in the dictionary

  1. syntactic sugar
  2. syntactical
  3. syntacticality
  4. syntactically
  5. syntactician
  6. syntacticians
  7. syntacticise
  8. syntacticised
  9. syntacticises
  10. syntacticising
  11. syntacticism

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