morphosyntacticadj.
/ˌmɔːfəʊsɪnˈtaktɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɔrfoʊˌsɪnˈtæktɪk/ Linguistics.
Of, relating to, or characterized by morphosyntax.
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morphosyntactic1959
morphosyntactically1962
1959 F. W. Householder in Word 15 232 It does not appear that languages have a semantic structure which is separate and distinct from the morpho-syntactic one.
1962 H. C. Conklin in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 119 While an ‘appeal’ to meaning does not improve grammatical analysis, neither does an intuitive appeal to morphosyntactic form yield the most appropriate analysis of meaning and reference.
1970 Language 46 332 The proposal does not spell out how one gets from the morphosyntactic surface structure to the phonemics.
1991 Stud. Eng. Lit. 76 O's classification has no bearing on the morphosyntactic and semantic properties of governing verbs.
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morphosynˈtactically adv.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > [adverb] > study of morphology and syntax
morphosyntactic1959
morphosyntactically1962
1962 H. C. Conklin in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 121 The compounds firewater and silverfish..are endocentric morphosyntactically.
1983 T. L. Markey & P. Fodale in Eng. World-wide 4 69 Lack of morpho-syntactically marked (i.e. full) passive will be made up by a movement transformation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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