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  • noun Plural form of syntactician.

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Examples

  • Okay, come clean: who's been searching for "hot syntacticians"?

    Archive 2007-04-01 StyleyGeek 2007

  • If your institution is a hotbed of Chomsky-flavoured syntacticians, like mine was, you will wind up believing that that is the only way to do linguistics and that everyone else is misguided and out-of-date.

    Five Questions StyleyGeek 2007

  • The moral of the result is that although commitment to compositionality requires allegiance to no particular sect of syntacticians, one cannot be oblivious to syntactic evidence in semantic theorizing.

    Compositionality Szabó, Zoltán Gendler 2007

  • Next week we’ll look at your thoughts and compare them to the expectations of prescriptivists and syntacticians.

    2009 October « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • Hell, we don’t even have very good grammaticality ratings for contemporary usage, outside of a range of borderline cases that syntacticians have studied.

    Evidence? Bah. « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • Next week we’ll look at your thoughts and compare them to the expectations of prescriptivists and syntacticians.

    You and myself « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • Hell, we don’t even have very good grammaticality ratings for contemporary usage, outside of a range of borderline cases that syntacticians have studied.

    Evidence? Bah. « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • There are still linguists who worship Chomsky especially syntacticians, especially in Europe, but there are plenty of other linguists who don’t.

    Judge Jones on judicial independence - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • previously mentioned, I belong to a small circle of syntacticians collecting attested

    Language Log 2009

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