syntaxistn.
/sɪnˈtaksɪst/, U.S. /sɪnˈtæksəst/ rare.
An expert in or student of syntax; = syntactician n. 2.
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Syntaxian1608
syntaxista1834
syntactician1884
syntacticist1887
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Notes & Lect. Shakespeare (1849) I. 151 The ‘it’, quite in the genius of vehement conversation, which a syntaxist explains by ellipses and subauditurs in a Greek or Latin classic.
2004 D. Mitchell Cloud Atlas (U.K. ed.) 450 During its composition I consulted a judge, genomicist, a syntaxist, and An-Kor Apis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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