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morphosyntactic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der. English morpho- English syntactic English morphosyntactic From morpho- + syntactic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to morphosyntax.
    • 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. 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 305:

Deriveds

morphosyntactically

Translations (2)

el μορφοσυντακτικός (pertaining to morphosyntax) · fr morphosyntaxique (pertaining to morphosyntax)