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Grammarian

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Grammarian may refer to:

  • In the modern narrower sense (since the split of linguistics and philology), a linguist, especially a scholar of grammar and syntax.
  • In the Ancient Greek sense, a philologist

Derived uses

  • Alexandrine grammarians, influential philologists of the works of classic Ancient Greek literature, active around 250 BCE. Related labels are Greek grammarians, Roman grammarians, and Latin grammarians.
  • Speculative grammarians, a 13th and 14th centuries school of grammarian philosophy active in northern France, Germany, Britain and Denmark
  • Speculative Grammarian, a satirical linguistics journal started in 1988