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Syntactician

//ˌsɪntækˈtɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 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 prefer to treat them as Verbs which head their own VP, for reasons which you can work out for yourself when you come to Exercise VII)."

  2. 2
    a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax wordnet

Etymology

From syntactic + -ian.

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