单词 | syntactician |
释义 | syntacticiann.ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > Roman Catholic or Jesuit > specific form > pupil in poet1674 rhetorician1676 grammarian1705 Syntaxian1705 philosopher1711 syntactician1774 poetician1895 figuration1904 1774 H. T. Blount Diary in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1972) 63 358 On the 9th August Jas. Hart, Syntactician, went to England. 2. An expert in or student of syntax. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > [noun] > study or science of > one who Syntaxian1608 syntaxista1834 syntactician1884 syntacticist1887 1884 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 5 28 Thematic subjunctives..which still wait for the criticism of the syntacticians. 1900 B. L. Gildersleeve Syntax Classical Greek p. iii The syntactician of to-day will find ample opportunity to criticise the arrangement. 1970 Eng. Stud. 51 52 Present-day syntacticians tend to pay too little regard to the patterning of paradigmatic variables. 2000 R. T. Lakoff Lang. War 10 The syntactician must construct sentences and test their grammaticality as a prelude to proposing rules and grammars. 3. With modifying adjective: a person who uses syntax in a particular way. ΚΠ 1900 Scribner's Mag. May 633/1 These spies..assume that a breach of grammar is a breach of the peace, that a slipshod syntactician is a public nuisance. 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 505/2 This writer has produced a single sentence seventeen lines long without a single slip in grammar. That so expert a syntactician should be rhythm-deaf is amazing. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Mar. 330/3 Sade..is a mightily resourceful syntactician. 2009 New Republic (Nexis) 18 Feb. 38 A master syntactician, he can conjure up a distinct, intimate, urgent voice in the space of a few lines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1774 |
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