ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Morphosyntactic

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Morphosyntactic is an adjective meaning Pertaining to morphosyntax.

Meaning

Pertaining to morphosyntax.

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include metasyntactic, morphophonological, morphotactic, morphosemantic, macrosyntactic, morphotectonic.

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