English Dictionary

Define dictionary terms easily in our powerful online English dictionary.

Searching for...

No matching words found

Try a different search term or browse the dictionary

Definition syntactician in British English

syntactician noun

noun
1

a linguist who specializes in syntax (=the rules about how words are arranged and connected to make phrases and sentences)

Example

... a syntactician, at the University of Edinburgh, points out there are many cases where the nominative pronoun - I, he, she, we, they - in predicate position is so weird as to be unacceptable.

Definition syntactician in British English