Morphosyntactic
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to morphosyntax. not-comparable
"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."
Synonyms
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From morpho- + syntactic.