syntactician en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˌsɪntækˈtɪʃən/
Etymology
Etymology tree English syntactic Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English syntactician From syntactic + -ian.
Meanings
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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).
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 240:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| syntacticians | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
phonologist · pragmatician · morphologist · semanticist · semantician
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Translations (9)
fr syntacticien (expert in syntax) · cmn 句法學家 /句法学家 (expert in syntax) · fr syntacticienne (expert in syntax) · nl syntacticus (expert in syntax) · cy cystrawennwr (expert in syntax) · fi syntaktikko (expert in syntax) · ga comhréireach (expert in syntax) · es sintactista (expert in syntax) · cs syntaktik (expert in syntax)