Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of grammatical categories or linguistic units that have both morphological and syntactic properties.
- noun The set of rules that govern linguistic units whose properties are definable by both morphological and syntactic criteria.
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- noun linguistics
Morphology andsyntax regarded as an interlinked unit.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The part of morphology that covers the relationship between syntax and morphology is called morphosyntax, and it concerns itself with inflection and paradigms, but not with word-formation or compounding.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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"Finally, I remember reading in Payne's Describing morphosyntax that there's a tendency to mark only objects with a definite article, if definite nouns aren't always overtly marked."
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Finally, I remember reading in Payne's Describing morphosyntax that there's a tendency to mark only objects with a definite article, if definite nouns aren't always overtly marked.
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French, having retained more of its Indo-European morphosyntax, makes use of noun gender and verb conjugation.
French English Translation: the Clash of Roots and Grooves « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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Finally, about definiteness marking on direct objects Payne tends to call definiteness 'identifiability': Describing morphosyntax, p.
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These results indicate that the KE's problems go beyond morphosyntax, and the fact that affected KE's have significantly lower non-verbal IQs
Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008
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While the varied symptomatology of SLI suggests that no unified theory of its etiology might be forthcoming, the cause of the disorder is comparatively well understood in the case of one subtype, involving a severe disruption of morphosyntax (i.e., the rules governing the formation of words from smaller semantic units, or morphemes).
Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008
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As characterized by Vargha-Khadem's team, the affected KE's speech is effortful, “sometimes agrammatical and often unintelligible” (Watkins et al. 2002: 453), and shows impairments not just in morphosyntax (e.g., regular plural and past tense endings) but also in the formation of irregular past tenses
Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008
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Like the bit where I got carried away and taught them the term "morphosyntax."
Archive 2007-07-01 StyleyGeek 2007
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Like the bit where I got carried away and taught them the term "morphosyntax."
Lessons from the first week StyleyGeek 2007
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