Grammarian may refer to:
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Alexandrine grammarians, philologists and textual scholars in Hellenistic Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE
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Biblical grammarians, scholars who study the Bible and the Hebrew language
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Grammarian (Greco-Roman), a teacher in the second stage in the traditional education system
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Linguist
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingu ...
, a scientist who studies language
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Philologist
Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined ...
, a scholar of literary criticism, history, and language
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Sanskrit grammarian, scholars who studied the grammar of Sanskrit
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Speculative grammarians
The Modistae (Latin for Modists), also known as the speculative grammarians, were the members of a school of grammarian philosophy known as Modism or speculative grammar, active in northern France, Germany, England, and Denmark in the 13th and 14t ...
or Modistae, a 13th and 14th century school of philosophy
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Grammarians of Basra, scholars of Arabic
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Grammarians of Kufa, scholars of Arabic
See also
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Grammar
In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, a field that includes doma ...
, the structural rules that govern natural languages
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Grammaticus'', a name used by several scholars
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Neogrammarian
The Neogrammarians (German: ''Junggrammatiker'', 'young grammarians') were a German school of linguists, originally at the University of Leipzig, in the late 19th century who proposed the Neogrammarian hypothesis of the regularity of sound chang ...
, a German school of philology in the late 19th century
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