morphosyntactic
English
Etymology
morpho- + syntactic
Adjective
morphosyntactic (not comparable)
- 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.
- 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:
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Translations
pertaining to morphosyntax
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