Definition of morphosyntactic in English:
morphosyntactic
adjective ˌmɔːfə(ʊ)sɪnˈtaktɪkˌmôrfōsinˈtaktik
Linguistics Involving both morphology and syntax.
number is a morphosyntactic unit; plurals require both a morphological change and syntactic agreement between noun and verb
Example sentencesExamples
- Lexical items are characterized by penultimate accent in the unmarked case, but there are morphosyntactic factors that trigger ultimate accent.
- Their key idea was that differences among languages - especially in plurality or gender or definiteness or other sorts of morphosyntactic marking - should have an effect on what people pay attention to.
- I round off the chapter by considering the case of so-called numeral-classifier languages, which typically lack the morphosyntactic distinctions (especially, singular vs. plural) characteristic of English.
Derivatives
adverb
Linguistics These were all grammatical sentences: i.e. they were morphosyntactically well formed.
Example sentencesExamples
- Russian, for example, does not morphosyntactically distinguish between middle constructions and passives.
- And much of the literature in interactional linguistics is very syntactically oriented rather than morphosyntactically oriented.
noun
Linguistics Early morphosyntax is very rich and uniform in young French-speaking children
Example sentencesExamples
- Congo morphosyntax shows many parallels with the Spanish of semi-speakers and foreign language learner
Definition of morphosyntactic in US English:
morphosyntactic
adjectiveˌmôrfōsinˈtaktik
Linguistics Involving both morphology and syntax.
number is a morphosyntactic unit; plurals require both a morphological change and syntactic agreement between noun and verb
Example sentencesExamples
- Lexical items are characterized by penultimate accent in the unmarked case, but there are morphosyntactic factors that trigger ultimate accent.
- I round off the chapter by considering the case of so-called numeral-classifier languages, which typically lack the morphosyntactic distinctions (especially, singular vs. plural) characteristic of English.
- Their key idea was that differences among languages - especially in plurality or gender or definiteness or other sorts of morphosyntactic marking - should have an effect on what people pay attention to.