grammarian

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English gramarien, form Middle French gramarien, gramairien.

Pronunciation

• enPR: grə-mârʹē-ən, IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˈmɛəɹɪən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

grammarian (plural grammarians)

2. A person who studies grammar, either scientifically or (traditionally) unscientifically.

   Synonyms: grammatician, grammaticist

   Hypernym: person

   Hyponyms: morphologist, syntactician, syntacticist

   Huddleston and Pullum are well-known grammarians of the 21st century.

4. (loosely) A person who pedantically critiques the grammar of others' speech or writing, especially when unscientifically and misguidedly.

   Hyponyms: grammar Nazi, grammar cop, grammar police, grammando

   They spent hours disabusing the misinformed rants of various armchair grammarians.

Derived terms

• Neogrammarian

Related terms

• grammarization
• grammarizing
• grammatical
• grammaticality
• grammaticalization
• grammaticity
• grammaticization
• grammatization
• ungrammatical

Translations

person who studies grammar

• Arabic: نَحْوِيّ (ar) (naḥwiyy)
• Armenian: քերականագետ (hy) (kʻerakanaget), քերական (hy) (kʻerakan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語法學家 / 语法学家 (zh) (yǔfǎ xuéjiā)

• Czech: gramatik m
• Danish: grammatiker c
• Dutch: grammaticus (nl) m
• Esperanto: gramatikisto
• Finnish: kieliopin tutkija
• French: grammairien (fr) m, grammairienne (fr) f
• Galician: gramático (gl) m, gramática (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Grammatiker (de) m

  Middle High German: grâmaticus m, gramatici m (plural)

• Greek: γραμματικός (el) m (grammatikós)

  Ancient: γραμματικός m (grammatikós)

• Hindi: शाब्दिक (hi) m (śābdik), वैयाकरणिक m (vaiyākarṇik)
• Italian: grammatico (it) m
• Japanese: 文法家 (bunpōka), 文法学者 (bunpōgakusha)
• Korean: 문법가 (munbeopga)
• Latin: grammaticus m
• Latvian: gramatiķis m, gramatiķe f
• Lithuanian: gramatikas m, gramatikė f
• Low German:

  German Low German: grammatikers (plural)

• Macedonian: граматичар m (gramatičar)
• Manx: grammeydeyr m
• Maori: mātanga wetewete reo
• Middle English: gramarien
• Old English: stæfcræftiga m
• Persian: نحوی (fa) (nahvi)
• Polish: gramatyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: gramático (pt) m
• Russian: граммати́ст (ru) m (grammatíst), граммати́стка f (grammatístka), грамма́тик (ru) m (grammátik)
• Sanskrit: वैयाकरण (sa) m (vaiyākaraṇa), शाब्दिक (sa) m (śābdika), शाब्द (sa) m (śābda)
• Slovak: gramatik m
• Spanish: gramático m
• Swahili: mwanasarufi
• Swedish: grammatiker (sv) c
• Tagalog: mambabalarila
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: قواعدداں m (qavāyaddā̃)
• Vietnamese: nhà ngữ pháp học

See also

• descriptivist
• linguist (often hypernymous)
• prescriptivist