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Morphosyntax vs Morphosyntactic - What's the difference?

morphosyntax | morphosyntactic |

As a noun morphosyntax

is (linguistics) morphology and syntax regarded as an interlinked unit.

As an adjective morphosyntactic is

pertaining to morphosyntax.

morphosyntax

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Noun

(morphosyntaxes)
  • (linguistics) Morphology and syntax regarded as an interlinked unit.

    • morphosyntactic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining 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.