Morphosyntactic Word
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A Morphosyntactic Word is an abstract word unit that connects a lexeme to a specific word property, such as part-of-speech role.
- Example(s):
CHANT-PASTfor "chanted" in “She chanted the psalm.”CHANT-PART.PARTICIPLEfor "chanted" in “She has chanted the psalm.”
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Word Mention.
- See: Function Word, Written Word, Phonological Word, Word Form.
References
2002
- (Wheeldon & Lahiri, 2002) ⇒ Linda R. Wheeldon, and Aditi Lahiri. (2002). “The Minimal Unit of Phonological Encoding: Prosodic Or Lexical Word.” In: Cognition, 85(2).
- QUOTE: We compare their prepared production latencies to those syntactic phrases consisting of an adjective and a noun (e.g. oudlid ‘old member’) which comprise two morphosyntactic and two phonological words, and to morphologically simple words (e.g. orgel ‘organ’) which comprise one morphosyntactic and one phonological word. Our findings demonstrate that the effect is limited to phrasal level phonological words, suggesting that production models need to make a distinction between lexical and phrasal phonology. …
Since all morphosyntactic words are phonological words, both black and bird are phonological words [bláck][bı́rd] each with their own word stress.
- QUOTE: We compare their prepared production latencies to those syntactic phrases consisting of an adjective and a noun (e.g. oudlid ‘old member’) which comprise two morphosyntactic and two phonological words, and to morphologically simple words (e.g. orgel ‘organ’) which comprise one morphosyntactic and one phonological word. Our findings demonstrate that the effect is limited to phrasal level phonological words, suggesting that production models need to make a distinction between lexical and phrasal phonology. …
2000
- (Bauer, 2000) ⇒ Laurie Bauer. (2000). “Word.” In: "Morphology.", edited by Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann, and Joachim Mugdan. ISBN:9783110111286
- QUOTE: In (2) and (3) there is a word-form changed which, in both cases, represents the lexeme CHANT. Yet chanted in (2) does not have the same function as changed in (3), as can be seen by comparing (2) with (4) and (3) with (5) where sang and sung are different word-forms.
- (2) She chanted the psalm.
- (3) She has chanted the psalm.
- (4) She sang the psalm.
- (5) She has sung the psalm.
- To make this distinction, we need to be able to distinguish between chanted which is 'CHANT-PAST' and chanted which is 'CHANT-PART.PARTICIPLE'. That is, there is third notion of word, intermediate between the word-form and the lexeme and distinct from both. It is the word as a place in the morphological paradigm (see Art. 24). For some scholars whose particular interest is in inflection, this notion is term word out court (Matthews 1972: 163), but it seems preferable to retain the general term as a superordinate or less specific term. The terms grammatical word or (because of the ambiguity of "grammatical word", which can also be opposed to "lexical" or "content word", see 2.3 and Art. 27). morphosyntactic word are now widely used in this sense (Lyons 1968: 196; 1977: 73; Bauer 1988: 244).
- QUOTE: In (2) and (3) there is a word-form changed which, in both cases, represents the lexeme CHANT. Yet chanted in (2) does not have the same function as changed in (3), as can be seen by comparing (2) with (4) and (3) with (5) where sang and sung are different word-forms.
1997
- (Matthews, 2007) ⇒ Peter H. Matthews. (2007). “Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics." Oxford University Press. ISBN:0199202729
- QUOTE: morphosyntactic word. A representation of a word in terms of its grammatical properties, as opposed to a phonetic or written