syntactician

From syntactic +‎ -ian.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɪntækˈtɪʃən/

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syntactician (plural syntacticians)

1. One who studies syntax; especially, a linguist who does so expertly.

   Synonym: syntacticist

   Hypernyms: grammarian < person

   Coordinate terms: morphologist; phonologist; semantician, semanticist, pragmatician

   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 240:

     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).