syntacticistn.
/sɪnˈtaktᵻsɪst/, U.S. /sɪnˈtæktəsəst/ An expert in or student of syntax; = syntactician n. 2. Now also: a person who places primary importance on syntax as opposed to semantics (cf. semanticist n.).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > [noun] > study or science of > one who
Syntaxian1608
syntaxista1834
syntactician1884
syntacticist1887
1887 W. G. Hale Cum-constructions ii. ii. 98 The task of the syntacticist is to find for every construction..a direct descent from some construction that is acknowledged to exist.
1889 W. G. Hale in Classical Rev. 3 168/2 The very phrases comparative grammar and comparative philology are commonly used in a way to leave the syntacticist outcast and alien.
1944 Mind 53 243 What the syntacticist is interested in is, that..these isomorphs are themselves analytic.
1977 Daily Tel. 10 Feb. 12/6 Syntacticists, linguists and psycholinguists are turning greedily to the poetics of fiction in ‘Winnie the Pooh’ and the psychological processes in the reading of ‘Alice’.
2000 D. R. Olson in P. K. Smith & A. D. Pellegrini Psychol. Educ. III. lxi. 19 The controversy between the syntacticists and the semanticists is reducible to the alternative assumptions that language is appropriately represented in terms of sentence meanings or in terms of speaker's meanings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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