Meanings
- not comparablePertaining to morphosyntax.
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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
Origin
- Ancient Greekμορφή (morphḗ)
- Englishmorpho-
- Englishsyntactic
- Englishmorphosyntactic
Translations
French morphosyntaxique
- morphosyntaxiquepertaining to morphosyntax
Greek μορφοσυντακτικός
- μορφοσυντακτικός (morfosyntaktikós)pertaining to morphosyntax
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