süntaktilist

Süntaktilist is a term encountered in some linguistic and educational contexts to denote a person who specializes in syntax, the branch of linguistics that studies the structure of sentences. The word appears as an amalgam of a root related to "syntax" and a suffix that marks professional practice; its precise form and spelling vary by language, and it is not a standard term across all linguistic communities.

In practice, a süntaktilist analyzes sentence structure, builds and tests grammatical theories, and works with formal representations of syntax such as trees and rules. They may engage in theoretical work within generative or functional-typological frameworks, develop parsing algorithms for computational linguistics, or contribute to cross-linguistic typology and language description. The term is more common in certain educational materials, fiction, or multilingual glossaries than in core English-language linguistics literature, where "syntactician" or "syntax researcher" is preferred. As a label, it highlights the central concern of syntax—how words combine into phrases and sentences, and how different languages encode these relations.

Related topics include syntactician, syntax, grammar, and computational linguistics.