morphosyntactic

morphosyntactic

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Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.
English morpho-
English syntactic
English morphosyntactic

    From morpho- + syntactic.

    Adjective

    morphosyntactic (not comparable)

    1. Pertaining to morphosyntax.
      • 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 305:
        It is, of course, important to draw a fundamental distinction here between Tense (a morphosyntactic property) and Time Reference (a semantic property). So, for example, in (60) below:
        (60)      If I went there tomorrow, would you come with me?
        went is morphologically a past-tense form, and yet is used in a future timeframe.

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