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What is the noun for syntacticians?

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syntax
  1. A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
  2. (computing) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
  3. (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He tries to bring a poetic touch to his lines by jumbling the syntax of the sentences.”
      “The syntax tells us which diagrams are acceptable, that is, which are well-formed, and which manipulations are permissible in each system.”
      “It is assumed that you already know the syntax of Ada and have a rudimentary understanding of the semantics.”
syntaxis
  1. (grammar) Syntax.
  2. (geology) A convergence of mountain ranges, or geological folds, towards a single point.
  3. (crystallography) Syntaxy.
  4. Examples:
    1. “In recent years Cambrian trilobites and brachiopods have been discovered in Bhutan, close to the eastern syntaxis of the Himalaya.”
      “States that the syntaxis of the style sheets used is correct.”
      “By this time, the Syntaxis was lost in Western Europe, or only dimly remembered.”
syntaxy
  1. (crystallography) An overgrowth in which both the original crystal and the crystal growing on it have the same orientation.
syntaxeme
  1. (linguistics) A basic semantic-syntactical element of a language
syntactocentrism
  1. (linguistics) A focus on the role of syntax in language.
syntactics
  1. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (relatively rare) syntax
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syntacticism
  1. (linguistics) An approach that focuses on syntax.
syntacticist
  1. One who studies syntax.
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syntactician
  1. An expert in syntax.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These expressions are absolutely baffling from the point of view of a syntactician.”
      “While I'm at it, I'll ask them whether their prominent posting of a letter from George Bush, noted syntactician, is tongue-in-cheek or not.”
      “I asked a professor of Polish linguistics, a syntactician, about what Polish grammars say about such structures.”
syntacticians
syntacticists
syntaxemes
  1. plural of syntaxeme
syntaxes
  1. plural of syntax
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He runs over all sciences to peruse their syntaxes, and thinks all learning comprised in writing Latin.”
      “Students can familiarize themselves with new terms and new syntaxes, different than their native language.”
      “Scriptol has different syntaxes for short control structures in a single instruction, or complex one with a block of instructions.”
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