Meanings
plural syntacticians
- One who studies syntax; especially, a linguist who does so expertly.
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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).
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 240Synonyms: syntacticist
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOne who studies syntax; especially, a linguist who does so expertly.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Translations
Chinese Mandarin 句法學家 /句法学家
- 句法學家 /句法学家expert in syntax
Czech syntaktik
- syntaktikexpert in syntax
Dutch syntacticus
- syntacticusexpert in syntax
Finnish syntaktikko
- syntaktikkoexpert in syntax
French syntacticien, syntacticienne
- syntacticienexpert in syntax
- syntacticienneexpert in syntax
Irish comhréireach
- comhréireachexpert in syntax
Spanish sintactista
- sintactistaexpert in syntax
Welsh cystrawennwr
- cystrawennwrexpert in syntax
Cite this entry
syntactician. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/syntactician
“syntactician.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/syntactician. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “syntactician,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/syntactician.
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